That’s Pretty Interesting

The character Sam and Max standing in “Birmingham, UK” with Sam saying “Well, here we are in Birmingham”.

My brother used to live in Birmingham, UK. Based on his stories, this is pretty much how I picture it.

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Maybe using dongles or USB port the user can use regular keyboards as input device rather than buying a separate accessories.

Personally I like portable and small form factor device, but I guess larger screen make sense as well for legibility and ease of reading. However, be careful to not make the final design too bulky.

Thats pretty interesting, maybe the same method to make the external module hardware can be open up to developers for them to make their own unique accessories and modules.

Its has a unique design and stand out more than being a standard e-reader design form factor. It also gives room for developers to be creative with the buttons the same way the Playdate Console did to their unique crank mechanic.

Gameboy Advance inspired console that is portable and small with small E-Ink displays as buttons on the sides and one main E-Ink screen.

Other avenue to explore for the handheld is maybe a smaller Gameboy Advance inspired handheld form factor that is portable and small with small E-Ink displays as buttons on the sides and one main E-Ink screen.

If the device would be in size of a small tablet, maybe it can fit buttons that have a small e-ink display in them that the developers can mess around for different situations on the games.

Is there a plan for built-in online game store like the Playdate Console? Or would the games run only from an SD Card like a retro old-school game cartridge?

“The Galaxy Is On Orion's Belt” - The Arquilian

Two panels of pictures, with the top panel that shows James Gunn saying “I have always have dance sequences in everything I’ve ever done”. The bottom panels shows lists of Things Zach Snyder Superman does and Things James Gunn Superman does, which James Gunn Superman have “Dances” in the end.

If Superman actually dances in the 2025 Movie, it might be some of the defining tonal shift in James Gunn era of DC Universe compare to Zack Snyder era.

The top panel is from a behind-the-scenes YouTube video about the opening scene of The Peacemaker series.

Modified bottom panels from SMBC Comic

A Rio 600 MP3 Player

For comparison most of the common MP3 that can be bought at 2001 like the Rio 600 can go about with about 32MB to 64MB of flash storage memory. So a first generation iPod can store half or all of the songs in those players in RAM.

A first generation iPod

The first generation 2001 iPod has about 32MB of RAM, this is made for both skip-protection and buffer. This is a pretty big RAM capacity for a portable music player at that time.
#ipod

A simple graph showing the years in bottom axis, with points when the first iPod was released which is in 2011, when the Minecraft Alpha was released which is in 2009 and today’s year which is 2024.

The gap from Minecraft Alpha (2009) to today (2024) is almost twice as long as iPod (2001) to Minecraft Alpha (2009). It’s 8 years for iPod to Minecraft alpha and 15 years for Minecraft Alpha to today.
#ipod #minecraft

A monkey listening to a Walkman portable cassette player.

That’s a pretty good reference.

The 48 KB version of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum cost £175 in 1982. Adjusted for inflation, that’s £597.14 or about £600 in 2023 which is close to the PS5 Pro’s price of £699.99.

A Sinclair ZX Spectrum

A Playstation 5 Console with a Controller

TIL: Accounting for inflation, the humble Sinclair ZX Spectrum cost almost as much as a PS5.

In 1982, the ZX Spectrum was £125 that’s about £426.53 in 2023 with inflation. PS5 costs about £449.99 in 2023.

www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-pol...

#RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #PS5