Submitted by The Colour Maximite is a small and versatile single chip computer running a full featured BASIC interpreter with 128K of working memory and eight colours on a VGA monitor.
It will work with a standard PC keyboard and because the Maximite has its own built in SD memory card and BASIC language you need nothing more to start writing and running BASIC programs.
You can either build it yourself, or buy a prebuilt kit. This seems like a great DIY project.
RetroBSD is supported on that hardware: http://retrobsd.org/wiki/doku.php
Yep some of my family are getting duinomite-minis for Christmas. Just be aware that it doesn’t do vga and unix at the same time.
This is a pretty exciting little project. It’s been around for some time, but it’s about as close as you can get to the C64 age of computing today.
The Retro BSD part is an interesting bonus.
Back To BASICS is a must now that We Started to depend that much on Computing. Thanks Thom.
Makes me nostalgic. I really wish Microsoft had open-sourced QuickBASIC 4.5 and Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS.
Using FreeBASIC’s QuickBASIC-compatibility dialect on my retro PC just can’t be as satisfying and nothing compares to Visual Basic 1.0 for knocking up a quick DOS GUI.