A thing of beauty.

Great presentation

13:01 that’s like a Touch Bar on the Mac 😂

I notice that it looks like someone manually edited all the closed captions for the entire panel, since they all have correct spelling and punctuation. Holy smokes, that must have been a lot of work. Thank you so much! 📜📜📜📜📜

I would love to be on this panel because these are the discussions I want to have about retro computers. I'm an Atari fan and stuff I most want from my Ataris are the things Atari promised and never delivered! That I what I get most excited about when I go on AtariAge and find someone is building an Atari 1450XL from scratch. Or an Atari 1090XL expansion box and cards for it. I've bought the 1090 box and the 80-column card and the CP/M card, because the system I most wanted back in the day was an Apple II. These products if they had been released back in the day would have brought the Atari to parity with the Apple II. The 65C816 chip would have brought parity with the Apple IIGS. I wanted the the Atari line to grow year over year and all we got were broken promises and the cuckoo's nest invasion of the Tramiels.

OMG. Brilliant lecture.

Did I hear the name Tom DeFanti ‼Now you're talkin'

I had GEOS for my C64 way back in the day - It was really Advanced for the time... especially since the C64 was such a Basic piece of hardware

Your BBS (running Synchronet) could use some configuration love. I can help with that. I've sent some emails to the sysop (jace) offering some tips, but received no response.

The Quake type demo is impressive but it's too blocky for it to be useful. The X16 is suited for 2d games, not 3d games.

Hero - Thank you!

31:10 sounds like a goofy implementation of TCP SEQ/ACK but, it worked.

8:09 If I remember right the screen said Validating the disk" in that brief disk access, I always wondered what exactly it verified.

Ive heard of 3 of them….

I worked on code for pescii robots and david murrey stole it from me! He neither paid not even credited me! He owes me!

"Video Transcriber" used to be a job that someone got paid for. It's interesting to hear an artist badmouth AI art and then talk about how cool AI Transcription is. Maybe AI is OK when it's taking someone else's job, but not our own? I struggle with the same thing as a musical artist. I use AI drums but I complain when people like AI generated music. (AI music is just as crappy as AI art). The easy answer is that AI can't do art and music as well as artists and musicians. Yet. But even if it ever exceeds us somehow, we will still make art and music because we love it. We just won't make money at it. But I'm already not making money, so there's that...

I had the UMAX c500/180 clone and I loved it. Got it for less than a thousand dollars new. These days I do my work on a MacBook Pro M3 Pro.

Taylor nailed it about being able to control stuff on TV ❤

I hope all of them never think they know everything. KZbin can give people a false sense of being a celebrity.

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This was my 2nd year attending & selling at VCFMW. While I'm usually tied to the tables, for both item sales, & talking to some interesting folks, I would like to attend one of these talks. Both the questions & the answers to them were very good. The level of knowledge & experience, as well the variety perspective from these panels, is both positive & refreshing. Thanks for taking the time to record this session. :)

Why does everyone dress like they are homeless. I just can’t take any of it serious I’m sorry 😂

Changing tech... I was sitting in a boardroom, listening to a cellular service provider rep teaching us about the newest smart-phone features... this was around 2008. I was sitting there, minding my own business, and some of my colleagues started making fun of my 2005 Motorola flip-phone, which I proudly set on the table in front of me... I said, "Oh, yeah?!" and proceeded to thrown my phone across the room, rolling up to and hitting a wall, which rendered the whole room silent -- surely they thought I had lost my mind. I slowly got up, walked over to the apparently dismantled phone, popped the battery back in, turned it back on, and said, "Try that with your lame-ass iPhones!" When they dismissively countered with claims that theirs could surf the web, I showed them that the Opera browser app on my V300 could do that too! ;-]

First memorable exposure to computers in media? Other than the usual for my generation -- Star Trek TOS(TV 1966-69), I would have to say, "2001: A Space Odyssey"(1968), "Colossus: The Forbin Project"(1970), and later, "Space: 1999"(TV 1975-76)... I never noticed before but all these titles have a colon in them! ...Coincidence? ;-]

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Found my wife and I several times in the video, including me posing for a pic with Adrian at 0:50 . Thanks for sharing! What a great time it was!

I found myself!

The magnitude of this show and how it has grown, it's simply amazing! Incredible!

Incredible! Love how this basically netted us a full timelapse of our booth (the one with the large CRT wall) for opening day. Thanks for doing this!

If you didn't cut the footage off so early you'd see me sitting on my newly acquired Mac Pro lol

as someone who hates macs, I can definitely agree I dont' like windows 11 because it tries too much to be like a mac. I did everything I can at work to make it look more like windows 10. lol

I've disagreed with adrian before and I will again. My current computer vs my 10 year old computer? It's leaps and bounds faster. My 10 year old computer couldn't render my enterprise model in blender on the GPU because of vram limitations. The CPU took 1 hour to generate the image in 1080. My current computer can render it in 4k in about 5 minutes. And honestly GPU or CPU makes little difference. I'd call that a significant improvement in speed.

My nest thermostat's battery is dying. It's not technically user replaceable. I saw a video on it. You can do it, but the risk of it never working again is very high. So I just bought a new one. The new 4th gen. All they have to do is put in a battery door. And it would be fine. But they didn't. So I wish minor maintenance issues like that were still possible today. And yeah I can replace the battery now if I want in the old one if something happened to the new one with little risk.

I've never had a "good deal", but I did have a bad one. My current computer was in 2021 when it was impossible to buy parts. My geforce 3070 required me to buy a motherboard I didn't want. To this day I've never used it. And I bought a ryzen 3600x as a placeholder for my 5900x. So yeah that's quite a bit of money wasted on this computer. Close to $500.

using linux is ALWAYS torture. LMAO

what's my favorite printer? My Prusa Mk4 (soon to be MK4S). lol It's a 3d printer. I don't use 2d printers anymore. lol

technically 1 person didn't design any 8 bit computer. Every component was designed by different people. It would be accurate to say that Woz assembled those components in a specific way, but he had nothing to do with things like the 6502 for example.

On the question of 'stock or tricked out', there should have been an additional choice: bug fixes only? Veronica has a point regarding captioning... I guess it must be Adrian's Canadian accent or something, but on almost every intro to his videos, it comes out as "Adrienne's"...and on the topic of dot matrix printers, at my work, we have a few "in-circuit" test machines we use for the assemblies we build, and each one has a "cash register style" dot matrix printer that puts the failure data on 4" wide register tape.

When I was a kid I got into programming because it sounded cool. And I started to learn and understand it. Eventually I created something new and it was this amazing feeling to see something I made come to life. It's a rare feeling I've chased many times, but now that I do it for a living it's a lot harder to get that feeling because I do this kind of thing every day. But I've had many "impossible" projects given to me and when I finish them I do get that feeling. Even if the end result isn't something I care about. That's what got me into computing.

My intel core i7-2600 was my main computer for 10 years. I do have a laptop that's older that still works, but it was never my main computer. Although technically I use my work computer more than my main computer. That was a xeon from the intel 4th core i series generation and it was my main computer for 10 years as well. It just got replaced with one of the explodey intel chips. lol Ironically that old dell made me jellous. It was better than anything I had even the graphics. The new dell? nope! it's junk. I looked up the hardware. I'm like.....dell wanted $200 for this graphics card? Are you kidding me? lol My Ryzen 5900 decimates that intel chip. My geforce 3070 decimates the graphics.

I love windows 7. Windows 10 isn't too bad. Most of my complaints on windows 11 are fixed, but 10 is still better. But it's like.....I need something that works. I don't want to have to recompile the kernel or any of that BS. And I love the compatibility. Even as bad as windows 11 was, it can still run just about anything. You can't do that on linux, which is a nightmare to use. And you can't do that on a mac.

So I had a C64 and when the last PSU died and we couldn't get anymore I was depressed about it. My parents got rid of it and it made me mad. I'm like I can fix that some day. Ironically in 2019 I bought a C64 that was "as is" and it's big problem was the lack of PSU......well also MT ram failed.....and eventually the cartridge port. But it's all fixed. So yeah.....why did we have to get rid of it?

My C64 is mostly stock, but it has a GAL PLA (which is technically period correct), it has the VIC2 squared mod so you can use PAL or NTSC. And I use an ultimate 2+ cartridge. I hate floppies. It's convenient. At the end of the day it's usable and it offers the stock experience but with modern conveniences.

'mils'? It is not the dark ages anymore, use standard units of measurement.

I LOVE that VCF Midwest 2024 poster!!!!!!!!!!! It took 45 years to fix that Bell Phone Center Store logo!!!!!

One of the last questions wrongly described Adrian Thompson's experiments in evolvable hardware using the old Xilinx XC6200 FPGAs. It was genetic algorithms and not AI. He evolved a circuit that could discriminate between a 1KHz and a 10KHz square wave on its single input by directly mutating the bitfile - no synthesis tools involved. This example was selected between the timing involved is orders of magnitude greater than the delays in the FPGA so it would have to create something like counters at the very least. The evolved circuit was essentially an analog one that no human designer would have created and it wouldn't work if loaded into another FPGA of the exact same model.

Great talk! While it is generally true that FPGAs don't have internal high impedance, the old Xilinx 4000 family did. It helped not only with busses but also with wide logic like CPLDs can easily implement. But they decided it was better in practice to just stick with multiplexers and never did it again

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Just to set the record straight. You CAN move the task bar on Windows 11 just like Windows 10 and Windows 8 and Windows 7, etc.