leimon @leimon@librem.one

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[1] Tuba

[2] Yes, but mostly GTK

[3] No

[4] Mobile crypto wallet app support

[5] PureOS

[6] Q: Is there anything that prevents you from recommending LinuxMobile to your friends and family? If so, what is that top reason.

A: available native devices (It's a hard sell at the current price/performance ratio).

@zwarf I've also been exclusively using one for over a year now. It's not a perfect experience by any means, but the hardware and OS/driver support is infinitely better than the pinephone I was using immediately prior to receiving it.

I can't really recommend the device to anybody except the most tech savvy Linux users and even then it can be a hard sell as it is more work to maintain than the alternatives. That said, I love Linux on mobile and don't ever plan to go back.

@mntmn @gkrnours If you can make something that will fit in one of those 1L business desktop sized-cases, I think you could potentially sell those like hotcakes. I personally love that form factor as well.

So I stumbled across this video for #amiga fans recently about this board called the #amicube . It looks like it will basically be a #minimig but with AGA support. According to the video, there should be a bigger announcement in a couple of weeks.

https://youtu.be/HsjiMXMYqrU

@1Bit Hey I enjoyed your video, thanks for posting it. When you get a chance I'd love to see another video about your thoughts on the 256K as you've owned one for a time. I'd be interested to know what you like, what you don't like, what has improved since you got it and all that other stuff. Finally, maybe where you'd like to see it go as well.

Also, those Atari-style controller ports on it, do they work with Sega genesis controllers, or only with joysticks? Thanks in advance!

@dosnostalgic I've never heard of this before, but with those tiny sprites I'm wondering if this is perhaps a lemmings knock off...

@samf It's been over a year since you asked and maybe you don't care anymore, but just in case you do, there is an app nowadays called Tuba that's pretty great:

https://flathub.org/apps/dev.geopjr.Tuba

Hope this helps.

@martijnbraam Wow! It really came a long way.

@amigalove Who knew that petscii art could be so hot!? Thanks for sharing.

@janbeta Should you happen to enjoy anime, there is a great coming of age story about a high school kid falling in love with jazz. If I recall correctly, Moanin' was featured in the first couple of episodes:

https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GY3VW4PXR/kids-on-the-slope

While I'm far more partial to the design of the #CommanderX16, I must admit that I am a bit excited by any sort new retro-computing, retro console device.

With that in mind, allow me to present to you, this video on the #Agon #Console8:

https://youtu.be/3NqbouGTTqs

@mos_8502 That is a nice looking interface, for sure.

@thomholwerda Oh cool! Is that a reform and if so, which CPU did you go with?

@kyle Towards this end, I recently used #tic80 for my oldest (a fantasy console). It supports a bunch of languages to write code with, but of those, I'd either go with Lua or Python.

https://tic80.com/

I write retro games as hobby myself, and I have found that a fantasy console like tic80 allows me to prototype out a game idea about 10x faster than using a modern game engine such as Godot.

Hope this helps.

@soller I was looking closely at the MiSTer for a while, but what I determined I was most interested in was the #Amiga platform along with the #CommanderX16 platform.

Since what I really want to do is develop new 8/16 bit games, I pre-ordered the latest Commander X16 dev board. I'm also planning to get #TheA500 mini and/or the #V4SA.

Links in case you're interested:

https://www.commanderx16.com/

https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/

http://www.apollo-computer.com/