retrocomputing

Ahoy, DECmate II! the little PDP-8 that could https://lobste.rs/s/e7n06u #retrocomputing
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ahoy-decmate-ii-little-pdp-8-that-could.html

My lizard is the lizard of testing https://lobste.rs/s/lotyw5 #games #retrocomputing
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1101008925/lizard/posts/2098969

Macintosh Classic II RAM maxed out. I feared for my life opening this thing, but turns out not even a spark was present during the discharging procedure. Probably because it has been turned off for about two weeks. Anyway, beter safe than sorry and now I can play SimCity. #retrocomputing

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Of teapots and UNIX:

#unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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Flatpak package for GIMP 0.54.1 (1996) https://lobste.rs/s/cmcklp #graphics #retrocomputing
https://gitlab.gnome.org/balooii/gimp-0.54

The art and engineering of Silpheed via @vbernat https://lobste.rs/s/yohvez #retrocomputing #reversing
https://fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/

Installing and Operating 2.11BSD on the PDP-11 (1995) via @duncan_bayne https://lobste.rs/s/9gneqy #pdf #retrocomputing #unix
https://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/Setup/2.11bsd_setup.pdf

New video! I'm trying to burn a new KERNAL ROM for my dad's Commodore 64 on the actual C64.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/2uAHMyOmTH4
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/5FAWnVLK46PJHw4cVNENht

#DELA #EPROMMER #Merlin #EPROM #EEPROM #Programmer #KERNAL #JiffyDOS #DolphinDOS #JiffyDolphin #27C64 #ROM #C64 #Commodore #Commodore64 #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

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This pixel-art cow is the header of a valid DOS executable, encoded as UTF-8 Braille characters.

See the whole thing here:
https://github.com/dbalsom/executable_unicode/blob/main/hello_world/BRAILLE.COM

Try it in DosBox!

#retrocomputing #asm #x86

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Front-Panel Booting an ATmega88 Microcontroller https://lobste.rs/s/yfjhpn #video #hardware #retrocomputing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-2adBkW7Xo

OS9Map: OpenStreetMap for Mac OS 9 https://lobste.rs/s/t9cawj #retrocomputing
https://yllan.org/software/OS9Map/

Bringing Swift to the Apple II https://lobste.rs/s/qt6tji #retrocomputing #swift #vibecoding
https://yeokhengmeng.com/2026/06/swift-on-apple-ii/

VWestlife makes informative and droll videos about retro technology, including audio, cameras, computing, radio etc. You can follow their video account at:

➡️ @vwestlife_makertube

Don't worry if it looks blank to you, it just means no one from your server has followed the account yet. If you follow the account its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.

You can also follow their Mastodon account at @vwestlife

#FeaturedPeerTube #RetroTech #Audio #RetroComputing #PeerTube

This is a great article. Such should exist for all #retrocomputing things that invented anything great, even little things.

https://www.datagubbe.se/ltmag/

Little Things That Made Amiga Great

A deep dive into a selection of ingenious AmigaOS features.

This World Environment Day, combat e-waste by recycling your old tech with #NetBSD. Don't let planned obsolescence dictate your hardware's lifespan. Give that old machine a second life as a rock-solid firewall, file server, or lightweight workstation. 🖥️🌱
#WorldEnvironmentDay #NetBSD #RunBSD #RetroComputing #EcoFriendly #FOSS #Linux

In other news I was reading up on Spectrum programming earlier and found a cool bookmark.

#retrocomputing

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The Old Computer Challenge https://lobste.rs/s/klkabn #hardware #retrocomputing
http://occ.sdf.org/

lol. in google gemini's world, vnc has been ported to win16 (in fact isn't):

Real-World Examples: It Already Exists
You don't even have to write one from scratch if you just want to use one. Retro-computing enthusiasts have created working 16-bit VNC clients:

VNCHooks / Win16 VNC Viewer: There are early 16-bit ports of the original AT&T VNC viewer source code floating around old software archives (like Aminet or old SourceForge repositories) explicitly compiled for Windows 3.x.

RealVNC 3.3.3 r2 (Win16): Back in the late 1990s, the developers of VNC officially maintained a 16-bit Windows version alongside the 32-bit Windows 95/NT version.

#retrocomputing #retroprogramming #win16 #vnc

Dragonfruit: A 68k/Dragonball Palm device emulator for ESP32 devices https://lobste.rs/s/6fhbtz #hardware #retrocomputing
https://github.com/megabytefisher/Dragonfruit

Reverse engineering Crazy Taxi, part 3: Textures https://lobste.rs/s/bidqpi #games #retrocomputing #reversing
https://wretched.computer//post/crazytaxi3

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD https://lobste.rs/s/xsig5e #openbsd #retrocomputing
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html

Installing SerenityOS on My Old ThinkPad T60 https://lobste.rs/s/igaqk9 #retrocomputing
https://btxx.org/posts/serenity-t60/

Topaz is an artist and retro computing enthusiast (especially the Amiga), often making videos about creating art with old software such as DPaint or Quantel. You can follow at:

➡️ @topazrabbit

Don't worry if the account looks blank to you, it just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start showing up on your server too.

You can also follow their Mastodon account at @TopazRabbit@oldbytes.space

#FeaturedPeerTube #Art #Amiga #Quantel #RetroComputing #PeerTube

Total Replay v6.0 is out. It features 519 Apple II games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.

https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay

Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v6.0

No LLMs. We tested every game, we squashed every bug, we sweated every pixel, for 7 years.

Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, and everyone else who contributed.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

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