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Fascinating findings (and documents) by the Computer History Museum Slovenia about the Peerless Foam Moulding "Gemini" case designed by Satherley Design Associates and resold by BICC-Vero Electronics. Besides the Partner the same case was also used by 2 different Apple II integrations and a rare Logitech LG-10 computer.

Videos made using the devices showcased at our Computer History Museum Slovenia.

The devices list, their Doom port names, Doom port authors and source links:

- Kodak DC260 (1998): Doom for Digita, author: James Surine, https://web.archive.org/web/20070720203938/http://digita.mam...

- Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch (2011): prboom4android, authors: Florian Schulze, L!TH!UM, Marko Štamcar & others, https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/doom-for-nook-simple-touc...

- Polycom VVX 600 (2012): doomgeneric, authors: ozkl, maximevince, Neil Bostian & others, https://neilbostian.github.io/#/doomphone

- Apple iPod Mini 2nd gen (2005) & SanDisk Sansa Clip+ (2009): Rockdoom, authors: Florian Schulze, The Rockbox Crew & others, https://www.rockbox.org/

- Texas Instruments TI-Nspire CX CAS (2011): nDoom 3, authors: Xavier Andréani, Mrakoplaz, critor & others, https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=6631

I wish the https://github.com/devos50/qemu-ios project would evolve to support iPhone OS 3.x to experience many early iPhone apps for digital preservation's sake!

https://github.com/touchHLE/touchHLE is also great but needs patches for all but the most basic of apps.

Really enjoyed reading this write up. For exotics there is typically less people tinkering with them and that makes it even more cool when you manage some hack/mod!

For Porsches, it's easier as they do share infotainment stuff with other VAG vehicles and there is an online community that also tinkers with PCMs (Porsche's infotainment).

In my old 991.2 I managed to unlock Android Auto which was never officially supported using that community's efforts - it was completely functional, just disabled in favor of a CarPlay-only offering. (This changed with the 992 where it comes with both systems standard). And by plugging in a Motorola MA1 one has Wireless Android Auto on a car that never supported even the wired version. Sweet.

One day we might see a real Doom on 911 write up because the viral video from a few years ago is sadly fake. But just by going with the information/tools available in the modding community it's completely possible. Most of the GUI on it is Java apps BTW :)

Great, thanks!

In regards to what? Software preservation? I think every vendor should value it.

Thanks! It's really hard to find any info online and even for the Slovenian version we just have a copy of a copy of the original installation CD and no photos of the original localized materials exist online.

A few years back I tried getting a related Gboard bug fixed and it was really frustrating getting the report to the right people. In the end, I did not manage it and what happened was after a long time the bug was fixed, probably due to some internal testing rather than the Gboard devs seeing my report :(

"Android 11 - Gboard not triggering Enter keypress event on <textarea> in Chrome when there are suggested words in the Gboard suggestion strip"

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40738692

The first frustration was getting push back from every place I tried reporting it - Android bug tracker, Chromium bug tracker,... and of course there is no public Gboard bug tracker, the only option is the "Send feedback" option in modern Android OS on Google devices that I'm sure gets lost somewhere. While I do understand each of the mentioned bug trackers has its rules, I had to give it a try considering there is no other way to actually write a technical bug report and get any Google developer to notice it :(

My suggestion is that each Google product/app should have a public bug tracker of some type. A place where power users and developers can reach the corresponding Google teams more easily.

Nostalgic feelings is what we have been going for. We have a large amount of (also scanned) issues of Slovenian and ex-Yu magazines in our collection: https://zbirka.racunalniski-muzej.si/revije/

Maybe :) Before "live to production" later tonight I tested it using a car FM transmitter adapter so things are already in motion haha.

Awesome! You can reach me at marko@muzej.si and I will also keep Michal Necasek from OS/2 Museum in the loop.

Needless to say, any reader with original Slovenian OS/2 Warp 4 media should contact the OS/2 Museum and/or the Slovenian Computer Museum. Thanks! :)

And there is also ReGIS / Remote Graphic Instruction Set by DEC - unfortunately none of our terminals support it.

The poor guy still needs some love, however I decided to post the photo anyways :) We did a "first pass" cleaning of everything collected since 2004 but have only recently found a permanent home and storage for our collection - so much left to do, but it's a pleasure polishing the milestones of yesteryear :)

Zdravo :) You're welcome to visit us once we (hopefully) open in the second part of the year. We are aware of a few local private collectors and admire how they cherish their treasures. The museum does not have a budget for acquisition but thankfully we have already received many generous donations and will make sure as many visitors as possible can experience them!

Author here. Thanks and welcome :)

Dynamically Redefined Character Set (DRCS) was introduced with DEC VT200 and even though online information is scarce, there is enough there to make it work on a real machine.

Even more interesting are the Yugoslavian/Slovenian video terminals with their own custom graphics modes and features - it is a lost art but we at the Museum are working on bringing it back!