There is a point to be made about short-sightedness on the manufacturers' part; if the infrastructure needs to be improved then short-term profits should be reduced in order to ensure long-term sustainability.

But yes, at least where I live, there's a major infrastructure problem that nobody -- consumers included -- want to pay for, and for a lot of us EV's aren't an option until said infrastructure has been upgraded.

Give it a week and it will be. By far.

Batteries fail completely too, on occasion especially with cheaper brands or 5+ year-old headphones.

Were there actually Pentium M chipsets that could decode anything but MPEG2?

The CPU will be struggling with most modern video formats including h.264.

we were decoding 480x320 MP4 on PalmOS 5 devices in early 2000. Those were single-core in-order 200mhz ARM devices with no accelerators at all. Pentium M outperforms those easily and thus can do it too.

Mp4 is the container. H264 is the video codec.

got me, it was DivX and XviD which are indeed newer and fancier than MPEG2

And still much easier to play than h264. A Pentium II with NetBSD was more than enough.

Nowadays on an n270 CPU based netbook I use mpv and yt-dlp capped to 420p, even if I can play 720p@30FPS.

Amiga was big in Europe. No doubt they were slow though; most computers of the time were.

Yeah, the lack of support for off-the-shelf hardware has been the doom of the Amiga revival since day one.

The refusal to port AmigaOS to anything but dead or near-dead architectures has always amazed me -- had the resources been spent on AROS instead, we'd have a usable modern ecosystem by now, rather than multiple different options that fall back on various ways of running 30 year-old binaries.

All I want is a decent modern version of YAM and universal ARexx/datatype support! :(

> Yeah, the lack of support for off-the-shelf hardware has been the doom of the Amiga revival since day one.

The Amiga was not just an OS. It was all about the custom chips that added such interesting and powerful capabilities to an otherwise unspectacular 68000. When combined with the OS, it created a system that was truly ahead of its time.

But I don't see the appeal of AmigaOS on modern hardware. Most Amiga fans are more interested in the games and demos that didn't use the OS, and used the blitter/copper etc directly.

And if you just want a faster Amiga, the PiStorm is pretty cool.

There have been firebrands attempting a revival of the Amiga since the mid 90's, and back then it was a question of making a new and modern platform -- not watching demos.

Today is a different matter, of course. Personally, emulation is more than enough for me.

Lots of tapes more or less being given away here. Check your local flea markets!

It's perfecly legitimate to do stuff simply because you want to. This is a site for tinkering people, so it's kind of expected people tinker with stuff. Quite often that includes old stuff. :)

Waiting for the writeup about the steel wire recorder resurgence now.

Yeah, with high-end vintage decks in good shape, tapes can sound pretty decent, more than enough for day-to-day listening.

A type I tape recorded on a modern player? It'll sound horrible.

But what a quality that was!