It was an nice little machine. But since it used the UCSD P-System, a slow interpreter, it was rather slow if you needed to compute anything.
(In my aerospace company days, our group evaluated a large number of forgotten machines, from the Apollo Domain and Symbolics 3600 down to the Terak. This was the era of weird UNIX workstations and things that were sort of like IBM PCs, but different. So I got to see most of the hardware of that era. Eventually settled on Sun 2 machines and 4.3BSD.)
tsumnia 2 hours ago [-]
Those graphics look really nicely done (especially the GIF); I actually wish matplotlib or whatever the most popular data viz libraries are had a feature that would make them.
dexwiz 29 minutes ago [-]
I would look for dithering options if you can. On screens with limited colors, dithering is a great way to add a feeling of depth or shadows. You still see it in some pixel art.
If you read dev logs for playdate games, a lot of devs use dithering since it only has 1 bit color.
SirFatty 1 hours ago [-]
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(In my aerospace company days, our group evaluated a large number of forgotten machines, from the Apollo Domain and Symbolics 3600 down to the Terak. This was the era of weird UNIX workstations and things that were sort of like IBM PCs, but different. So I got to see most of the hardware of that era. Eventually settled on Sun 2 machines and 4.3BSD.)
If you read dev logs for playdate games, a lot of devs use dithering since it only has 1 bit color.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25