Those totally look like the isolinear chips from Star Trek

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    Vaporware is when software devs make claims about how great their yet-to-be-written software will be. Then, they never create it, either out of a lack of skill, time, or funding. Vaporware has, by definition, no proof of concept.

    Hardware is a bit harder to call “Vaporware” since presumably they have working prototypes.

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      7 months ago

      Commodore 65.

      Intellivision computer.

      Commodore SuperPET based on the Zilog Z8000.

      • All vapourware.
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      Vaporware historically includes stuff that never gets released officially, or was cancelled during the development process but was already advertised. One example of this was the Hellraiser game for the NES that would have pushed the capabilities of the console well beyond what it was ordinarily capable of because the cart included a Z80 CPU as a coprocessor. The Action Gamemaster (by Active Enterprises) in 1994. The Amiga Walker in 1996. Apple Interactive, which was a set-top box that ran OS 7, but it never went past the test type stage.