Don't mind me, just copying A2Desktop from its 800kB floppy to a directory in my brand new 32MB /APPLICATIONS volume, which lives on a microSD card in my #BurgerDisk
retrocomputing
MacSurf: NetSurf for Mac OS 9 https://lobste.rs/s/rgybfv #browsers #mac #retrocomputing
https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf
In the hunt for a good 386 to put on the time line, we found some #demoscene goodness!
#retrocomputing #msdos #pc #gaming #museum #tech #pittsburgh #pgh
New video! I'm putting together a Commodore 64C with a relatively rare cost reduced case and then future proofing it.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xsCXn19azSI
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/i8iz3Nh5D5apBYG69h3MUc
#Commodore #C64 #Commodore64 #Restoration #Refurb #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
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Fixing a super 8 projector from the 70s https://lobste.rs/s/j4ri6i #retrocomputing
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/07/fixing-super-8-projector-from-70s.html
Preparing a new video. Are you interested?
#retrocomputing #kungfuflash #commodore #c64 #zimodem
Modern web needs like 100MB just to say "Hello World". I went the other way.
Introducing GASM: A Gopher server in pure i386 Assembly.
💾 Binary: 1.5KB
🧠 RAM: 24KB (Verified with pmap)
🚫 Dependencies: 0 (No libc, pure syscalls)
🦕 Min Spec: Intel 386DX (1985)
Probably runs on the shittiest hardware you can find, or on your Ryzen 9.
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Yes that's #FastFetch running in #MiNT (no, not Linux Mint!, #Atari MiNT, the one and only)
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How is the DOS PC game 'Discworld' 30 years old! 🤯
I wrote about this fantastic, yet very difficult point and click adventure in 2010 and also enhanced the original MIDI music for use within @scummvm
Save the date!
Flashback Symposium 3
6. - 8. November 2026
Jößnitz, Germany
https://www.flashback-event.de
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #party #retroparty
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So the Sun Type 7 keyboard arrived; and it's lovely, but it's also very yellowed.
The internet quickly dissuaded me from retrobrighting, but I wouldn't mind dying this keyboard a different colour.
Anybody done it? I see all sorts of YouTube videos but I am not sure what would work on this type of plastic?
Reversing ‘Grateful Dead: D2S2’ on Mac (2022) https://lobste.rs/s/61uxxo #mac #retrocomputing #reversing
https://blog.os9.ca/2022/04/21/001-reversing-grateful-dead-d2s2/
I think I'm putting my #ZXSpectrum raycaster to bed now that I have movement. I'm happy that it works (my first attempt at machine language) 😅. Some weird graphical glitches around certain intersections of ray path and map grid (jagged wall edges), but considering the huge approximations I made, it's not bad.
I moved it above the first 16k of memory that apparently makes it run faster and (combined with disabling interrupts) definitely does improve the refresh rate. #RetroComputing
Theseus, a static Windows emulator https://lobste.rs/s/dfe90i #retrocomputing #windows
https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2026/04/theseus.html
The immortal 1984 Macintosh (restoration diary) via @ggpsv https://lobste.rs/s/er8kot #mac #retrocomputing
https://www.thebyteattic.com/2026/08/the-immortal-macintosh-restoration-diary.html
The NoteCards hypermedia system was developed in Interlisp at Xerox PARC by @fghalasz Frank Halasz, Tom Moran, and Randy Trigg. In this 1985 videotape Moran introduced the main concepts of NoteCards, and Halasz demonstrated how to use the system to organize notes and sources for writing a research paper.
https://archive.org/details/Xerox_PARC_Notecards_Tom_Moran_and_Frank_Halasz_1985-01-08
I now have my own Utah teapot!
This ordinary teapot is the "hello world" object of computer graphics and has cameos in countless productions.
A thread on teapots and UNIX… 🧵
Photo: My Melitta teapot, 2026-04-16.
Fully Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter https://lobste.rs/s/jqr0fm #retrocomputing #reversing
https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=37.%20Pixter
Interlisp-D releases were named after words related to music starting with successive letters such as Carol, Fugue, Harmony, Intermezzo, Koto, and Lyric. Medley was the last before work on the system petered out in the 1990s.
Video of @thalia 's #retrocomputing presentation, thanks @mugaizzo for the recording!
New video! Trying to repair a 250469 Revision B Commodore 64 board with some interesting faults.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/IOSVJkbqrQs
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/eR3kRmCsDn4x8z53xtMZiU
#Commodore64 #C64 #Repair #Troubleshooting #BlankScreen #Commodore #DeadTest #DesTestMAX #Diagnostics #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
#Macstodon now runs in the latest bleeding-edge build of the Snow emulator! And if you use Snow's built-in HTTPS stripping, then you don't have to configure WebOne or another proxy, just install Macstodon and start using it 😎
Thanks @twvd for the FPU fixes and all the other hard work you put into Snow! This is the kick-in-the-pants I need to get the next version of Macstodon out the door 🙂
#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac
New video! I'm talking about boot selectors for the #Amiga showing off a DIY method and then trying out the #FireFloppySwap500, which is a super deluxe solution.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FVRQ-UqaC3Y
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/fDDPnJfTC6uuPxMekEhNzK
#Commodore #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #BootSelector #FireFloppySwap #DiskDrive #Gotek #ExternalDrive #InternalDrive #DF0 #DF1 #Floppy
Larry Masinter @masinter and Frank Halasz @fghalasz will be the guests of the next episode of "Do you speak tech?", the show Patrick Domanico hosts at Near FM community radio in Dublin. They will chat about Medley Interlisp, their memories of Xerox PARC, the computing world then and now, and more.
On March 10, 2025 at 19:00 UTC tune in to 90.3fm in the Dublin area or listen online here: