Unfortunately the 9 dollar price and the lack of assurance that this is not just a toy doesn't make me very compelled to buy it. Would have thought more about it if it were something like $1, though.
Yeah, I paid The $9 pricetag thinking it would be something other than a toy. And while it looks nice, and is fun to play with for a while; I haven't really found much utility for it where day-to-day work is concerned.
Nice emulator, but I'd love to have the real thing, a genuine old-school monochrome monitor, the kind that you used with a Hercules graphics card. Those monitors were so easy on the eyes. You could stare at Pascal all day. Figuring out the details of making it work is one of my 'someday' projects.
Also, the way the demo "expires" was creative. The static and flicker effects just get worse and worse until it's unusable.