Wish a spin...

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Re: Wish a spin...

Unread post by kondor » Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:44 pm

^ Ohhh yeah, I remember seeing that one, ages ago. And it does look tasty indeed.

I gotta dig up some 64-bit hardware this weekend to put it through its paces.

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Unread post by bizcuit » Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:39 am

Elementary Dear Sir, Pornix ( any base will do fine as long as it's infection resistant.) Name, thus purpose is totally self explanatory. :D

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Unread post by Snap » Fri Jan 15, 2016 7:29 am

^ LOL. +1

@kondor & bacon: I remember Rocks! too, but discovered it when already too outdated. In fact I discovered the BBQ due to Rocks! when looking for light weight Audio dedecated distros. Great it will revisited at some point this year. Looking forward for it.

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Unread post by simgin » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:55 am

Never tried catwm, looks very minimalistic, and nice ascii cat on the page. It should pop up when a terminal is opened :)
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Re: Wish a spin...

Unread post by rhowaldt » Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:16 am

with all the talk of awk and sed games, i was suddenly reminded of a forgotten BBQ gem: the games-spin that was under 512 mb. i think after the release we then had some talk about being able to make it persistent etc, and adding more/better games.

anyway, i always fucking loved that idea. you get all the good shit vintage games on a stick that you can just take with you wherever the fuck you go and have a quick play, and all the save-data is saved on the stick.

to make a start we could try making a thread for suggestions/ideas/etc for the games in this spin, or perhaps dig up the old one that should still be around somewhere :)

what was the name of the spin Jules, i cant remember and cannot access my old files :/
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:45 am

^ burgoo. IIRC.
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Unread post by machinebacon » Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:51 pm

yeah, that was burgoo... I even made a Amstrad CPC variant with several hundreds of CPC games. The only problem I can think of are the licenses, that's why I never really made it available to the public (newly registered users on the forums usually got a download link as thank you)
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Unread post by rhowaldt » Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:54 pm

ah yeah that was it. thanks for reminders :)
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Unread post by Theo » Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:17 pm

^^ The Amstrad spin :) http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=788

Except for the sound (which is simulair to MSX and Atari ST), the Amstrad was one of the best 8 bit computers.
AFAIK the CPC is the only 8 bit computer with a blitter chip (even the old ST line doesn't have this).
Only a few obscure 8 bit machine could compete with it
MSX2(+) more videoram but makes it slower than the MSX 1
Sharp MZ-800 (videoram could be expanded to 32k, but almost no support).
Enterprise 64 or 128, if you can get any software for this it's most likely poor speccy ports.
Sam Coupe this was meant as a gap filling machine between the 8 bit machines and the Amiga/ST's but too little and too late. Perhaps unknown by a lot of people but it's community is still alive and producing soft- and hardware for it.

So the choice for an Amstrad (oder Schneider) emulator was a very good one :)
For those who have any doubts look at this :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJosZfm560Q

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Unread post by simgin » Tue Jan 19, 2016 1:44 am

^ Sharp MZ-800, That is a bit of a rarerity o.O
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:11 am

I had a Sam coupe from MGT, got it at a 2nd hand store, sold it on ebay for £100 :)
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Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Jan 19, 2016 9:23 am

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Unread post by Theo » Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:05 pm

^^^ It can be more geeky. Back in the day my friends bought dirty cheap Atari 600XL computers, those could easily be upgraded to 64k like the 800xl. My dad replaced the memory chips, and the TMS4416 chips wich weren't needed anymore went in the Sharp to upgrade the videoram :)

^^ Those are very and very rare. If seen prices up to 600 gbp

^ Whoa a phonebbs in 2013? But I saw something else on youtube. It's possible to hook up a packetradio modem to the CPC. That made think of a project I once did with an Amiga and PC. I hooked up the Amiga with a nullmodemcable and create an entry in Xrouter (a HAM TCP/IP-AX25 Node/Router) at the pc-side. I could connect all telnet things. So with the Amstrad (with a RS232 expansion and cable) this should be working too :) In other words, with not to much hardware it's possible to check your email and chatting on IRC with an Amstrad :)

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Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:42 pm

1) install putty or telnet
2) get a BBS address from this list: http://synchro.net/sbbslist.html
3) waste your day ;D

telnet will be included on future spins. Just because.
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Unread post by simgin » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:02 pm

^^ Whooaah, Theo you are crazy cool :D
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Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:03 pm

I have no clue how to navigate a BBS, but boy are they awesome. My earliest recollections of the computer were Windows XP days, so I sadly didn't get to experience any of the awesomeness that was USENET and BBS'.
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Unread post by Theo » Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:44 pm

@Machinebacon, that would be nice :)
With telnet support, some guys wouldn't need an IRC program (to be more minimalistic).
An example :)

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Unread post by catfood » Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:24 pm

(Sorry, reviving here so all new spin ideas end back up in one place...)

"BBQ StripperNurse" (or rename as pleased)

I was gonna ask for help designing a liveusb(or cd) BBQ rescue disk.
(I've been looking into Debian live, but all are based on stable and have to be changed to sid/updated, add antix/siduction repos/update, and likely fill with excess junk by the time I got it close to bbq base)
Reading https://github.com/machinebacon/linuxbb ... master/bbq the basic bbq code, I see concept already exists within "# bbq system hospital"

I'd ask to add if not already present:
DD, PV, fdisk, parted (dislike waiting 20min to update/download these on an "ubuntu" livecd, bloating all the RAM, all just to wipe a HDD again.)
Links or W3M
Nano, VLC, a light image viewer (to see/access all media files to know what needs copied off a sinking ship)
Midnight Commander
clamav (not that I use windows anymore, but bbqlive to the rescue on family computers just helps trying to convert them to the linux cult :D )
...and any other things I haven't thought of for fixes.


A bbq spin to fix everything I break on installed versions, and/or easily wipe and repartition things beyond sensical time repairs.. It can be simply designed like Cream menu without much depth beyond that.
Don't care if it even has a window manager, or any real main programs, just exists to fix or erase things. (Though not sure if some of the above programs need to be run in X?)

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Re: Wish a spin...

Unread post by pidsley » Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:17 pm

catfood wrote:I was gonna ask for help designing a liveusb(or cd) BBQ rescue disk.
https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/
https://grml.org/

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Unread post by catfood » Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:46 pm

Thanks pidsley, will try those. (haven't had the best of luck with Resqtux or grubrescue in the past, so was looking for better solution)
I just yanked laptop hdd, hooked up usb external to desktop to copy back the working .xiintrc I just broke (about 30 seconds ago) lol.

So my concept and art proving more useless with trial and error as well :D
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