Blake Patterson
@blakespot.bsky.social
Web dev at American U in D.C., dad, retrocomputing nerd, No Man's Sky explorer. I live in northern Virginia. (He/him)
My blogs:
:: bytecellar.com (vintage computing)
:: nmsspot.com (No Man's Sky)
:: nostalgicvirginian.com (Virginia memories)
My blogs:
:: bytecellar.com (vintage computing)
:: nmsspot.com (No Man's Sky)
:: nostalgicvirginian.com (Virginia memories)
Man, the ST version of FSII was amazing to me - I played hundreds of hours of that, surely.
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Man, the ST version of FSII was amazing to me - I played hundreds of hours of that, surely.
I was playing FSII and FSI and Remote Control FS on the Apple //c back in '84. I never really had an A8 back then. Had a $25 bin 400 from Children's Palace as they were closing down, but didn't do much with it at all.
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I was playing FSII and FSI and Remote Control FS on the Apple //c back in '84. I never really had an A8 back then. Had a $25 bin 400 from Children's Palace as they were closing down, but didn't do much with it at all.
Yeah, I remember seeing the XEGS and a Coleco Adam on display at the mall in a Ritz camera shop. That's the only place I ever saw either of those machines set up and running. I was shocked to see it came with FSII. I remember being surprised that they could fit that game on a cartridge, as well.
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yeah, I remember seeing the XEGS and a Coleco Adam on display at the mall in a Ritz camera shop. That's the only place I ever saw either of those machines set up and running. I was shocked to see it came with FSII. I remember being surprised that they could fit that game on a cartridge, as well.
I did actually love FSII as a 12 year old kid, but yea - I was a special child.
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I did actually love FSII as a 12 year old kid, but yea - I was a special child.
Sounds fiddly. Just build a 486. ;->
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Sounds fiddly. Just build a 486. ;->
I had to build a 486-class system around the GUS to find it an ISA slot. :-)
bytecellar.com/2014/03/11/b...
bytecellar.com/2014/03/11/b...
Behold: The 5x86 System Build Is Complete! - Byte Cellar
Back in November I became inspired by the knowledge that my favorite old school DOS MODplayer had “recently” received an update, and expressed my intention (part 1) to more-or-less recreate the 486-cl...
bytecellar.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I had to build a 486-class system around the GUS to find it an ISA slot. :-)
bytecellar.com/2014/03/11/b...
bytecellar.com/2014/03/11/b...
Would that adapter setup see it work?
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Would that adapter setup see it work?
Here's a photo I've just taken.
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Here's a photo I've just taken.
I have one of these - recently acquired. I found being plugged directly into the DMA port (and those aren't round pins) was causing me instability issues - it jiggled as I swapped cards, reset. I ended up buying a UltraSatan cable and soldering on the US jack and using it that way - no more issues.
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I have one of these - recently acquired. I found being plugged directly into the DMA port (and those aren't round pins) was causing me instability issues - it jiggled as I swapped cards, reset. I ended up buying a UltraSatan cable and soldering on the US jack and using it that way - no more issues.