Project sounds interesting. The company website is profoundly strange. https://meanhamster.com/products The active products seem to be this and 3d printed pet sculptures from photos.

Clicking through and looking up on Wikipedia, Mean Hamster has been a niche game studio for decades (pocket pc, amiga, retro Atari cartridges). Also it’s now purely a family operation with all people who don’t have the same last name as the CEO marked as former team members.

Dude is in his 50s now, so maybe he’s working with his family on a cool project and living his best life, I like that interpretation.

@rimu@piefed.social is this your community ?

Oh that's cool it came with an XT-IDE controller, I don't think the dual floppy models came with one stock, will definitely save ya some hassle.

I think you're right, trying to get the storage working would be less painful than a serial link bootstrap. Will cross my fingers for ya!

I also tried the CONNECT application, and that was not getting further than "_" blinking. I will try using MODE as as you said. Also the documentation is patchy, cause I'm not sure, as you again pointed out, if CTTY can even do what I'm asking of it. My next step will be to get a CF card to IDE converter card and install either, DOS 6.5(along with PROCOMM) or freeDOS or ELKS and try to reestablish connection.

That looks terrible for your neck. Aesthetically beautiful though.

I think you might need to use the MODE command to set the COM port up prior to use.

Also I'm less sure about this part, but I think CTTY is only useful if you are using the pi as the user terminal (since I think it stops DOS from using the screen/keyboard and redirects that to/from the serial port)? I don't know what programs come on that supplemental disk, but depending on your comfort level, you could create a simple terminal emulator with a batch file, debug.exe, or potentially basic (if that's included). In a pinch, you might also be able to copy an ascii file from the pi to the luggable over the com port (copy.exe COM1 localfile)/(cat remotefile > /dev/ttyS0). You could also encode a binary file as base64 and then use a simple basic program to decode it?

For reference, I'm just a few years older than this thing 😁 and maybe my old brain is misremembering things...

Not to give out to much personal information. But that thing is either as old as me or a few years older. And it is probably in better shape than me.

Love to see these things working after all this time!

That's rough, but they haven't updated the product pages either:

We visited the U.S. distributor’s The A1200 product page on Amazon.com and saw that the machine is still up for pre-order at $189.99 at the time of writing. However, the release date hasn’t yet been updated; it still says “June 16, 2026” is when The A1200 will become available.

I preordered from the official RGL website the day they went live and this is the first I’m hearing about it. Pretty shitty that they haven’t even bothered to send an email and I have to learn about it through social media.

I still miss my minidisc player

So far I've left roses (at bottom of pages about individual services/products) for Google Reader & Angelfire/Tripod

ed is available on all modern unix-like oses, you can try it 😉 Vi inherit his modal system from ed

ed is the standard text editor.

Wouldn't it be easier to buy a USB DAB adapter/dongle compatible with android?

You remember correctly, but also

Almost a full day was devoted to agreeing to name the standard "Small Computer System Interface", which Boucher intended to be pronounced "sexy", but ENDL's Dal Allan pronounced the new acronym as "scuzzy" and that stuck.

Wikipedia

Why not get a modern scanner that scans higher resolution? Just wondering what this does better.

SCSI

I remember it being pronounced "skuzzy"

Thank you!

I think I might just skip the whole logo thing. The red ball is enough to make me happy. It's gorgeous.

That's not a bad idea. I do know someone with a laser cutter, actually. And I'm sure my wife has those colors in her over 700 bottle collection of polishes.

Yeah, I definitely meant M575. I mis-typed it in one spot. Just fat lingered. I guess I should have specified that I also want the solution to be cheap. Preferably sub-$20.

Yes, it absolutely does. They don't get to leave the series on a cliffhanger for nearly 20 years and not get called out. What happened to my little gnome dude after we launch that spaceship?!

Half-Life doesn't deserve this slander.

They really don't make games like this anymore, and I put 100% of the blame on Half-Life. Before Half-Life, shooters were going all in on being "immersive sims." Then Half-Life came out and showed you can use linear set pieces in a FPS to tell a mediocre story and people, for some reason, will absolutely love it.