I couldn't agree more

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

Fr! I jumped irl after the first one and felt legit embarrassed after jumping again on the second one lol

"Now that Windows 11 is out, I'm switching to Apple..." *THE LOUDEST SOUND YOU HAVE EVER HEARD

authentic 80s experience

The latter program is called Cangjie, but it required an extension card.

Depending how far back you go in Apple 2 development, there really wouldn't've been stronger platforms to use to develop on other than considerably more expensive minicomputers or mainframes, with Apple 2 being one of the first home computers that was ready to go and use out of the box. But yeah later on for sure, and I wouldn't've criticized the person who made this video for using a fully modern environment with a build script that packed it all up in to a disk image to load in the emulator. I've definitely developed for older systems in the same way. :p

Old Japanese computers had brilliant multilingual support. But it's hard to fault Apple for not building that in; it's expensive, and what American would care (or even know)?

@@Curt_Sampson They didn't they only had Japanese and English and maybe Chinese. they also had to make systems made for japan only .they couldn't compete in other countries because they had different standards for everything.

@@belstar1128 That's pretty much entirely wrong. The Japanese computers were using American standards for almost all the components. The CPUs were mostly Z80, with a few 6800 and 6809: both American designs that the Japanese manufacturers licensed. Most of the other chips (and virtually all of the important ones) were American designs as well. The video standard was NTSC: the American standard. The BASIC in ROM was almost invariably Microsoft BASIC. They did export their computers, too, though with somewhat limited success. The cover story of the May 1982 issue of _BYTE_ magazine was a review of five Japanese computers, and I still regularly see people both in the U.S. and Europe with, e.g, a PC-8001A, the western version of the PC-8001 (the best-selling series in Japan). The most successful export was the MSX computer series (from multiple manufacturers, based on a standard developed by ASCII Corporation and Microsoft), which was reasonably well known in many countries (all of Europe, Brazil, etc.) outside of America.

@@Curt_Sampson nobody used Japanese computers outside of japan apart from the msx. and that one had limited success in only a few random regions. a lot of the best selling games and software for the msx in japan was not sold world wide. and western users had their own different software. there was no law that stopped japanese systems from coming out here. but they failed or never bothered because the market was too different. also all these Japanese systems where incompatible with popular western systems at the time. even if they did use American cpu architectures. because the rest of the world couldn't make decent cpu's. the ussr tried to but they gave up and just started copying western chips. japan didn't have a reason to do that since American cpu's where good enough. but it didn't matter because they actual full computer could only run software made for that computer. in most countries the ibm pc became the dominant computer platform and the mac survived. but in japan the ibm pc and mac didn't get popular until the mid 90s

@@belstar1128 It sounds to me as if you've defined "standard" as, "western computers," which seems to me a bit culture-centric. Japan certainly did fail to meet the early '80s western "standard" of, say, 280x192 6-colour composite video displays set by the Apple II by instead using a 640x200 8-colour RGB display with a separate processor to handle graphics, and an extra 48K of RAM for the frame buffer on top of the usual 64K (1981 FM-8). And Japan did make their own CPUs, such as the Panafacom L-16A (MN1610), which in 1975 was one of the first 16-bit single-chip microprocessors. If you're thinking, "I didn't know that," yeah, there's a lot about the Japanese computer industry that's not well known in the west, and that causes people like you to look down on it when in many ways it was superior. _"but in japan the ibm pc...didn't get popular until the mid 90s."_ Yes, and for good reason. The IBM PC simply wasn't capable enough to display kanji, whereas the 8086-based PC-9801, introduced the same year, was. And even the 8-bit PC-8801 could do 640x400 graphics from the start. Western computers took a fair amount of time to catch up and it wasn't until after they did that they could be useful for business in Japan.

That was actually the main way that character input was configured in both China and Japan in the early 80s. I'm covering a machine soon that includes a 汉卡, a character ROM card.

@@InkboxSoftware I'd be glad to add them to my humble Apple II+ emulator.

@@InkboxSoftware Were any computers that had chinese characters built into the hardware by default, or did they all require plug-in rom? Or did they stick with pinyin, forcing these cumbersome (yet very skillfully made) workarounds to display proper chinese text?

Which song? The ending song is the Chinese national anthem

well, good luck with that not just doing the input but also rendering the text itself you have 144KiB

Should be ctrl+p

@@InkboxSoftware It works! the letters must be capitalized for the chinese characters to appear.

Done long ago. This is why Japanese computers of the early '80s had such high-resolution graphics (640x200) compared to western computers: they wanted to be able to display kanji well. And why they almost all had 128 KB ROM cards storing a couple of thousand glyphs for kanji characters available. The early Japanese microcomputers were designed for exactly this.

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The letters: DLROW OLLEH

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