retrocomputing

Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late via @robey https://lobste.rs/s/f1nsnm #retrocomputing #reversing
https://x86.cx/blog/redanger

Ah yes, my favorite video card manufacturer, NVDIDA

#retrocomputing

Playing classical music on a classic PC with GentleOS https://lobste.rs/s/xf23r4 #video #c #osdev #retrocomputing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp16LLOvegw

Finally!

I wrote a little file transfer utility to reliably send files over the network to my RC2014 and now I can play Zork natively.

Let me clean the tool up a bit and I'll create a repo for it on codeberg. Not that I expect that anyone would be interested, but well, it's what one does, right?

#RC2014 #RetroComputing #Zork #RetroGaming

xmodem adventures on the RC2014. I'm able to download from the RC2014 to my laptop over TCP/IP, but not the other way around.

That's already more than I expected though!

This is with a patched XMODEM.COM I had to grab from archive.org because the original site went down somewhere between last year and now.

It's using CON: to send/receive bytes. I suspect that upload is not working for the same reason DOWNLOAD.COM is not working, and that is that the ESP8266 is pushing data into the serial port faster than XMODEM.COM on the RC2014 can process.

The other way around, downloading from RC2014 to laptop, the RC2014 sets the pace, not the ESP8266 (apart from what little control data goes from laptop back to RC2014 to acknowledge data) so there's no problem with dropped characters.

#RetroComputing #RC2014 #xmodem

DOS: Determining system uptime https://lobste.rs/s/nfkmc5 #retrocomputing
https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-04/0/POSTING-en.html

The October 2026 issue of "Computer Chronicles Revisited" is now available. This month, I cover a November 1989 episode on portable computers, including new machines from IBM & Apple, the battle of Poqet vs. Portfolio, and no fewer than three Dynabooks!

https://www.computerchronicles.blog/computer-chronicles-revisited-139/

#retrocomputing

A few months ago, without fanfare or announcement, I started working on a new project: a brand new, handcrafted, open source Z-machine interpreter for the Apple II. This was partly inspired by Microsoft open sourcing Zork last year, and partly by the relentless flood of slop in the #retrocomputing community, and partly because I wasn't sure I could do it.

After learning more about Z-machine, @a2_qkumba and I settled on an insane design goal: Trinity in 64K.

#AppleII #interactivefiction

Doing a little #retrocomputing... I know, I'm currently cheating with the monitor, anyone have a sweet SVGA CRT? =)

have managed to fix federation visibility issues for the BASIC Programming matrix room that this project sponsors:

https://matrixrooms.info/room/basic:solarpunk.au

please join the discussion there for everything BASIC and BASIC-adjacent, such as #retrocomputing and #retrogaming

we also have a (largely dead! please help keep it active!) web forum @ https://basiclang.solarpunk.au/

#permacomputing #solarpunk #basic

Pretty sure you haven't seen this one in 40 years or more.

https://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/

#zx81 #retrocomputing

This is KromiOS, Kromi One's own simple, extendable OS. Its Terminal is a shell in the AmigaOS tradition: RAM: and assigns, command templates, tabs, completion, a Lua console, and Lua scripts as commands. A 1920 × 1080 screenshot from the emulator.

kromi.one
#KromiOS #Amiga #retrocomputing

This is Kromi One: a new home computer in the spirit of the Amiga, with its own FPGA chipset and its own simple, extendable OS, KromiOS. Made for games, work and enthusiasts. Here it is on the prototype, filmed on the monitor. More at https://kromi.one #retrocomputing #Amiga #FPGA

I am absolutely in love with #tracker music. I recently spent a few evenings with a good friend and colleague of mine going through a big collection of tracks, and ended up with a few dozen[1] that impressed us in one way or other.

While going through them, we mainly used #OpenCubicPlayer on a #386 (a 486slc2, technically) with a #Gravis Ultrasound PnP. Already pretty wild that some of these files play on such old hardware - but *that's the whole point!*

Now I'm listening to some of them on my #286 at home. A bloody 286! With a 1MB GUS Extreme. As with so many other #retrocomputing exercises I go through, I am again blown away by what is possible with such limited hardware. <3

[1] https://anduin.net/~ltning/music/goodshit/

The Costa GUI https://lobste.rs/s/uqugjk #retrocomputing
https://costa.jacobpalm.dk