Board:   [DoveNet] Internet Discussion
Subject: Well this is fun
From:    Chickenhead
Date:    Sun Jan 04, 2026 17:53

  Re: Well this is fun
  By: Mortar to Chickenhead on Fri Jan 02 2026 08:58 pm

Yes, I got the Starlight edition.   The lights can be annoying depending where you are sitting.   I was initially in my living room and couldn't easily read the keyboard...andafter all these years I really would need to given how different the commodore keyboard layout is.  I've since installed it in my computer room and it's much better.  You can turn down the lights, or turn them off.

I'm really not a fan of BASIC and they did spend a lot of time making a real spiral bound manual with BASIC examples.  Fortunately I've been learning FORTH and there is a fantastic modern FORTH called durexForth out there on github.  The junk I have been coding works really well between gForth on Linux and durex.

I have decades worth of .d64 images I have collected, some I imaged directly from my own floppies at one point.  They all seem to work.

I'm curious about how the modem emulator works, if it's just a port of Jim Brain's tcpser.  Works great to internet enabled BBS systems, but not at all to a local telnet server.  I hope future FPGA updates will fix this too.

At the very least it's a nifty little self-contained terminal.  My JiffyDOS roms work great...I was surprised that it doesn't have a "warp" mode like VICE does.  It emulates the ugly slowness of the 1541 floppy drive very well.

[Your blood pressure just went up.]
---
 ■ Synchronet ■ Vertrauen ■ Home of Synchronet ■ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net
.