For the past couple of months I have been working on a personal Raspberry
Is that a euphemism? :P
Well that's odd, it appears my message was cut off. It looks good on my end, but when I tried to logon to a different BBS to look, is was cut off. Lets try again maybe.
Hi all,
For the past couple of months I have been working on a personal Raspberry Pi project I'm calling Vintage Pi, and I thought I would share it. It is the reason why I even created the Vintage Pi BBS, to be the resource and home base of the project.
Vintage Pi Project a Raspberry Pi image designed to transport users into the nostalgic realm of vintage computers, recreating the authentic experience of bygone eras. Unlike the detached feel of running emulators on modern devices, Vintage Pi strives to bridge the gap, providing an environment that mirrors the genuine sensation of using historic computers. This project goes beyond the typical application on your computer, aiming to capture the essence of interacting with the actual hardware, rekindling the unique charm of computing from the past.
The idea is that you would log into a particular system. For example if you wanted to use the Commodore 64, you would log in as c64 with the password c64 and that would log you into the c64 login with its on look and feel. Right now I only of the Commodore systems, but the next step is Apple, then Tandy.
Here are the goals of features that I am trying to achieve.
Unique look and feel.
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Each login will have their own look and feel to tryto match the systems using Cool-Retro-Term, and a slightly customized Midnight Commander as the file browser/launcher. By pressing F2 on a disk image or file, you can choose if you want to mount the disk image or autoload, and get to choose which system to load it into. For example c64 ntsc/pal, or even an alternative system like the newer c64c.
Connect to the INTERNET via BBS
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I also want people to get the experience of connecting to BBS's not only withing the linux system, but also within the emulated system as much as possible. For example in the C64 login, there is a virtual drive 11 mounted with ccgms on disk, and TCPSER running as a systemd service ready to visit C64 boards.
A Persistent disk mounted
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Each of the systems would also of a virtual drive mounted where common "everday" programs would exist like the aforementioned ccgms with the c64. I would also like to take this time to ask any Commodore pros to suggest if there are any what you would consider "everday" programs you would like to see on each of the Commodore systems (/PET/VIC20/CBMII/C64/C128/Plus4). This virtual disk can also be a place for the user to store there favourite programs instead of always loading the disk image.
Documents Folders
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I also wanted to give the users the original feel of reading documentation like it was before the Internet. In the Documents folder of each system are QR codes to reading material from archive.org like manuals and magazines, to give it an authentic feel of learning the system, or entering a type-in program from Magazine's.
I invite everyone to check it out, and let me know what you think. The image and torrent are available on my BBS (vintagepi.asuscomm.com). If you are a sysop of a BBS dedicated to vintage computing I also invite you to logon and add your BBS to the BBS lister.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas from this little project of mine.
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