August 2018 Meeting Report

Cold, wet & windy best describes Melbourne on this Winter's Day but on we press.  Hey Members did you know you can do your own updates to The Blogspot directly from your warm cozy home?  Not a member?  Then why not sign up?  ---->  Melbourne PC User Group  And look for us in SIGs!

(Here's a shortcut  MACE SIG  )

Watched videos of artifical intelligence

Fired up some Epyx & Bally Manufacturing classics on Retropie (Yes, the HDMI output makes it easy to connect to modern displays & projectors)

 

August 2018 teaser

This Month, who knows where things will take us, maybe we will take on the idea of developing a 36-bit computer?  Of course there are those probably thinking "Why not just go 64-bit?".  Well extra cost for one thing but building an extra 4-bits onto an existing 32-bit system may be a saving in costs and developement time.  Think what 36-bits could give the end-user in terms of colour (or color) definition vs. the traditional defacto-standard of 24-bits!

Utilising something that provides some familiarity like Motorola's 68EC060 running at 75 Mhz may also provide a path for backward compatability with computer like the Atari ST.  So let's get out the schematics and start designing...