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Haiku lost the plot as far as I'm concerned when they didn't even try to support the Raspberry Pi as a target (where it would have been incredibly awesome). Right now the RISCv port is usable, but a lot of momentum was lost to the gods of fully open hardware...
Looks like they're working on it: https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/compiling-arm64/
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You don't happen to have access to Aztec C for the classic 68k? I (and others) have been trying to track down a copy for some time. There appears to be one on Macintosh garden, but that is for ms-dos.
Honestly I probably got rid of my final box of ancient Mac 3.5" floppies in my last move 5 years ago. Can't say I actually had Aztec C at the time, but it wouldn't have surprised me one way or the other. Short answer, no I no longer have access to it any longer. I used to run it on my basement upgraded, 512K Mac with 2 400K drives. Spent real money on it. I think it was $499 at the time. Maybe less, it was certainly…
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Honestly I probably got rid of my final box of ancient Mac 3.5" floppies in my last move 5 years ago. Can't say I actually had Aztec C at the time, but it wouldn't have surprised me one way or the other. Short answer, no I no longer have access to it any longer. I used to run it on my basement upgraded, 512K Mac with 2 400K drives. Spent real money on it. I think it was $499 at the time. Maybe less, it was certainly…
Ah thanks for sharing your memories, seems like computing was so much more expensive compared to now. I enjoy playing around with an old Mac Plus and a modern emulated HD20 drive. Eventually like to use it as a terminal, but really I just enjoy playing with an older retro computer that has a pretty clear lineage to my daily modern computer.
Heh. That's an understatement.
My Mac was $1800 (college discount), the 512K upgrade was $400, the extra drive was $400, and $499 for Aztec C.
That's ~$9000 in todays dollars.
I spent almost $5K (today) for my Atari 800 system (essentially obsolete by the time I got my Mac, I remember being excited when I got my first 1GB drive, since it was only $1/MB. (We already had $1/MB drives, but not that big -- and not SCSI).
I later sold that Mac and put the money towards a motorcycle. Boy, that was one of the best trades I ever did. I had that bike for 26 years. I can't say either was an investment, but that bike aged a lot better than the Mac did!
Anyway, yea, computing was expensive.