Accidental topic this week: text interfaces!
- PuTTY 0.69 has been released. (via)
- Made by the same author: Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. Like Minesweeper times one thousand. (via)
- Random ASCII spaceship generator.
- Telnet MapSCII.
- terminal emulators’ processing of escape sequences. I’ve Ctrl-S’d myself a few times, I’ll admit. (via)
- ZX Spectrum Next. Actually contains a ZX chip. (via)
- BSD author Michael W. Lucas is having a flash sale on his fiction. It may be over by the time you read this.
- The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software. A podcast episode, with some speakers I really like. (via)
- Securing Telnet with SSL. (via)
- Apple ][ clone and lawsuit history, some of which is new to me.
Your unrelated video of the week: DOUBLE KING. (via multiple places)
mate check your sources and avoid blindly copy/paste:
the ZX next DOES NOT contain a real z80
its a XILINX FPGA chip.
But the list on the Kickstarter site says “Processor: Z80 3.5Mhz and 7Mhz modes”. Or is that emulated?
The paragraph above the list.
“The Spectrum Next is fully implemented with FPGA technology, ensuring it can be upgraded and enhanced while remaining truly compatible with the original hardware by using special memory chips and clever design.”
So it has a fake Z80 implemented in hardware? I am unsure.
Actually the cpu is the t80 from opencores. It supports all z80 interrupt modes knows about all undocumented z80 instructions and flags.
About the ikiwiki, I’d like to see the technologies[0] pages back! I’d make a link to it right with the features and performance indexpage links. But the index is of course locked.
0-https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/developer/DragonFly_Technologies/