Great video! A shame because the moment I first saw them I squeed and said I wanted them! And by the end of it he said that they were both pretty disappointing. ._. Just as well I suppose. But the idea that such a thing is possible still makes me happy!

[–] dekkzz76@emacs.ch 2 points 1 year ago

@AuthorInkwell @suprjami

the only thing they have going is batteries i guess

15 -20 year old hw is gonna likely have dead batteries

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I suspect they were a surprise hit though; they got a lot of press, even aside from the BIOS fracas.

They almost seemed like a joke, someone assembling a bunch of parts-box stuff (see: keyboard with Windows keys? Supposedly the LCD controller hlitches into an OSD mode like it's off-the-shelf for a TV too) and deciding "hell, let's sell it."

It will be interesting to see what they do in terms of a round 2. There's low-hanging fruit improvements (at least emulate EGA or VGA so we can play Civ 1 or get a decent GeoWorks experience)

[–] iam8bitwolf@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Same lol. It's like whenever a company tries to come out with a new, cool looking record player or cassette deck. None of them are particularly good, compared to the older ones, but it's nice to get that recognition, yknow?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd rather see someone make a PC with some kind of 486 or Pentium - the best hardware compatible with old DOS games and Windows 95/98. Even in 1994 I remember a 386 was too feeble to run Windows at a nice speed, or many games.

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

I think, especially as you get towards "newer" vintage systems, the logical conclusion is the same one he reached - if you want a compact portable and you're okay spending a couple hundred dollars, you're probably going to be better off buying something from the time period than anything new that may be sold at that price point.