ZX Spectrum Laptop mashes in a Toshiba Libretto 110 for some fun retro times
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Flashpoint @ Mar 20th 2008 11:36PM
But...can Linux play DOOM?
JAmerican @ Mar 20th 2008 11:42PM
WINE
tokyo_suicide @ Mar 20th 2008 11:50PM
Why whine when you can have WINE.
mushrooshi @ Mar 21st 2008 12:50AM
FIRST.
Will it blend?
I for one welcome our doom playing, blending overlords.
Will it give me cancer?
Is the government spying on us?
APPLE RULES MICRO$OFT SUCKS
MICROSOFT RULES APPLE SUCKS
LULZ LINUX PWNTS BOTH
STFU
d840 @ Mar 21st 2008 3:45AM
@mushrooshi +1 for that.
Thank you, now that we have every cliche out of the way, perhaps we can get on to what the comment should really be about: discussing the article and giving this guy mad props for extreme modding.
SimonRichards @ Mar 20th 2008 11:37PM
I hope that spectrum was already dead before he did this, ive heard they fetch a pretty penny.
Chip @ Mar 21st 2008 10:31AM
Are you serious? I was storing mine in a box in the garage when the box overflowed and the ZX fell out and wifey ran over it.
webon @ Mar 20th 2008 11:40PM
Pffft MB Air ripoff
(srcsm)
CraigJ @ Mar 21st 2008 12:01AM
so how much pitcher life does it have?
Ben M. @ Mar 21st 2008 12:06AM
well holy my crap thats insane awesome
crazy laptop guy you = pwnxor
props man props
fischju @ Mar 21st 2008 12:15AM
"gets a couple hours of batter life"
jason @ Mar 21st 2008 12:16AM
doom aside... does it blend?
andres @ Mar 21st 2008 3:28AM
blending aside, i welcome it
jason @ Mar 21st 2008 12:18AM
Hahaha heres a video of it being blended...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZr3JWYdy8
Reader @ Mar 21st 2008 12:48AM
Gah I wish I could rate your entire profile down. This is the second time I've seen you post about blending and a link to go with (which is most likely a lame attempt at a rickroll).
SimonRichards @ Mar 21st 2008 12:51AM
I was going to give you the thumbs down, but I thought, ill click the link, and what I found, was truly epic. I thank you. And I gave you thumbs up.
SimonRichards @ Mar 21st 2008 12:53AM
Yes im aware there are no thumbs here. I spend too much time on youtube.
HighTeckRedNeck @ Mar 21st 2008 12:59AM
I have a Libretto 100 ... sweet machine. Needs a new battery, though. I still use it like a pda -- manages my calendar and todo list; has a wifi card so I can keep up on email or google random stuff on the go.
Loonie @ Mar 21st 2008 2:02AM
Nerdgasm!
Kspraydad @ Mar 21st 2008 3:37AM
Do you still lose your whole program if you touch the ZX with out grounding yourself first...goodtimes.
richard knights @ Mar 21st 2008 5:01AM
mmmm. Can I poke it?
charlie.hampson @ Mar 21st 2008 11:12AM
RANDOMIZE USR 1000
Hans Dekker @ Mar 21st 2008 5:31AM
Such a waste of a perfectly good Spectrum. Where do you keep the cassette player?
larry Friedman @ Mar 21st 2008 7:20PM
>>...Where do you keep the cassette player?
You have to use the Remote-Casette™ feature.
Aizen @ Mar 21st 2008 7:00AM
Doom runs natively on Linux, infact any ID-software game runs natively on Linux, aka. Doom, Doom II, Doom III, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Quake 4, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Wolfenstein 3D, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. There's no need for wine.
But to answer the question, no it can't run doom as the CPU is not supported nor fast enough, Doom requires a 386 cpu at 33 MHz, the Spectrums Z80 @ 3.5 MHz wouldn't be able to run it even if the cpu was supported. (The same answer applies to Wolfenstein 3D aswell).
Aizen @ Mar 21st 2008 7:02AM
Was supposed to be a comment / reply to Flashpoint above (first post). (Also yes I know he was trolling and not serious).
Jonathan Allen @ Mar 21st 2008 11:21AM
Before reading the article, I thought from the picture that this was some Ben Heckendorn project!
kyle allen @ Mar 21st 2008 3:46PM
i feel like such a nerd, i knew that was a libretto before i saw the title.
Clark H. @ Mar 23rd 2008 12:44AM
Batter life? Cake?? ^_^
mitul @ Apr 15th 2008 5:39AM
Kindly request you to please can you provide with final amount ( including all Taxes & other charges).
My budget is Rs.28000/- - Rs.30000/-.
Smock @ May 20th 2008 1:58PM
POKE 35136,0