[HN Gopher] Setting up and running the MAME emulation of the Min...
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Setting up and running the MAME emulation of the Minitel 2
Author : jgrahamc
Score : 43 points
Date : 2022-04-02 14:15 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.jgc.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.jgc.org)
| jgrahamc wrote:
| Must be a slow Saturday if this is near the top of HN. But if you
| are interested in hacking the old French Minitel, you may enjoy
| my other two posts:
|
| _Voiding the warranty on a 1993 Minitel 2 to run arbitrary
| firmware_ https://blog.jgc.org/2022/03/voiding-warranty-
| on-1993-minite...
|
| _Using a Minitel 1B as a serial terminal_
| https://blog.jgc.org/2022/03/using-minitel-1b-as-serial-term...
| werber wrote:
| I have pondered buying a Minitel at many a French flea market,
| this might turn that pondering into purchase, thank you!
| JPLeRouzic wrote:
| https://www.leboncoin.fr/recherche?text=minitel
| werber wrote:
| Funny story, well, funny to me anyways. I was living in
| Paris and dead broke after college. I had a steady cam
| system to sell, and obviously, I put it on leboncoin and
| went to deliver it near the Bastille. I went into the
| apartment with a dear friend, and as we sat down to do the
| sale, the purchaser pulled out a gun on me and asked if we
| could lower the price. I laughed, out of panic, and said
| something in French to the effect of, "Bitch, I'm from
| Detroit", I then realized, the gun was in fact a toy, and
| the purchaser relented. I gave them a 10 euro discount, and
| they made us both a nice proper pastis and we all
| eventually had a laugh. I haven't used the website since.
| quickthrowman wrote:
| "Bitch, I'm from Detroit" is the best possible response
| to that, even if they had a real gun they would've (or
| should've) relented after that response, lol.
| zxcvbn4038 wrote:
| Haha, reminds me of Casa Blanca, "Well there are certain
| sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you
| to invade."
| werber wrote:
| It worked, another funny story, the last time I had a gun
| pulled on me it was a very real shot gun, in a very
| sketchy part of Detroit. My response, "Thank god the
| first time I had a gun pulled on me in Detroit was by
| someone Asian, I love representation and defying
| sterotypes!". They ended up buying me a schwarma and we
| had a laugh about it.
| aaaaaaaaata wrote:
| Go on
| robotburrito wrote:
| I remember a TV show from the 90s that discussed minitel called
| Beyond 2000. As a young kid I loved that show as they always
| covered cool technology at the time.
| werber wrote:
| This is massively tangential, but stick with me. The book King
| Kong Theory (King Kong Theorie en frances), has a really
| interesting chapter about Minitel and how people were using it in
| the 1980s for prostitution. It's a small part of an amazing
| feminist text, and as a lifelong Francophile and Minitel fan it
| was eye opening. I highly suggest the book to anyone.
| touggourt wrote:
| This book is a must read. It is a very good and short intro to
| must advanced feminist books. Above all, one can't read it
| without rethinking about ethics. Ethics was invented by men,
| not women.
| werber wrote:
| I had a john explain ethics to me when I was a 16 year old
| prostitute. Ethics is doing the right thing with information,
| whereas morality is doing what you're told. Like, killing a
| baby is morally wrong, but if you had a time machine it might
| be ethical to go back and shoot baby Hitler (terrible
| example). He ended up coming to my rescue when I was arrested
| a year or two later, and I got off with no record after
| breaking into an abandoned historical building, which is a
| whole other story. He died not long after in what appeared to
| be suicide. But that explanation has had an impact on me, I
| don't think I'm a moral person, I'm an ethical person. I take
| what information I have, for instance, King Kong Theory, and
| apply it to the choices I make in life.
| azinman2 wrote:
| I misread that title and thought it was running MAME ON a Minitel
| 2. That would be quite a feat!
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