LIVE - Windows 3.1 Solitaire (1990) w/ MIDI! Chilling, jamming out, talking about whatever -- so come say hello!

https://tube.vencabot.com/videos/watch/d2d6185f-7ae1-4b30-8d3d-60d11a0f02f4

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: bursda bY TurtleLotion! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio

RPT-60B to Amiga 1200 adaptor plate is done and uploaded to thingiverse, printables and my codeberg site:
https://codeberg.org/Jonn-reenthused/RPT60B_to_Amiga_PSU_Adaptor_Plate #RetroComputing #Maker #3DPrinting

Math, Optimized: Sweden’s Maximal Multi-Divi - Back in the early 1900s, before calculators lived in our pockets, crunching number... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/28/math-optimized-swedens-maximal-multi-divi/ #retrocomputing #multiplication #classichacks #calculation #multi-divi #numbers #sweden #book #divi

This DS Lite thing is getting a bit out of control, although at this point I'm highly tempted to fire up my transparent iMac and find a Nintendo DS emulator for it, and complete this weird circle.

TIL about the "Atari video game burial"
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial)

I've been rummaging in the bit of my brain labelled "home computing nostalgia" and written up some memories of early 1980s computers and the software that came to you through your transistor radio.

https://newslttrs.com/yes-in-the-1980s-we-downloaded-games-from-the-radio/

Das zweite LoungeGespräch mit dem Thema #Retrocomputing war ein voller Erfolg. Danke an @blaudioslave @littlealex und @pflegende und die Herren vom #Elektromuseum #Erfurt.
Im Zentrum standen die PiDP-8 (Replika) und die Erfahrungen aus der DDR-Zeit und dem Funkwerk in Erfurt.
#Hackspace #Bytespeicher #LoungeGespräch #Retrocomputer

Friend: "What are you doing on the weekend?"
Me: "Oh, this and that, you know, the usual. Working around the house, groceries shopping, testing 50 game cartridges..."
#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Commodore #C64

I enter this old computer shop, and spot a Tandy Model 102. I ask if it’s for sale, the guy literally chocked:

“what!?… <recovering>.. what, what would you even do with that…!?”

So many cool things, you couldn’t understand. But it wasn’t for sale.

When I was a kid, I didn't know what the “thump thump thump” sound coming from a #floppy #disk drive was.

It also made a buzzing sound, which I figured was the head moving back and forth, but the thump was a mystery.

I'm still not sure, but I'm guessing it's the stepper motor moving by a single track. Am I right?

Big Baggy Shorts: Recovering Data From Canada’s Telidon System | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore — https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10927689/figures#figures

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: Remorseful bY Dr. M (Fi)! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio

Take A Little Bit Of Acorn To Work - When we think of 8-bit computers, it’s natural to start with home computers. That’... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/28/take-a-little-bit-of-acorn-to-work/ #embeddedcomputer #retrocomputing #bbcmicro

one thing I managed to do today, I modded one of my 40 track 5 1/4 inch drives with a new index sensor around the motor spindle.

I added a small reflective IR sensor module to to the spindle and painted the side of it black, leaving out about 6mm of paint.

Now I can read flippy disks without having to punch mirrored index holes to the floppies itself.

Today i tested two #Atari #260st - both seems to be brocken. :(
One of them gave a picture, the second one does nothing. And this picture isn't nice, but it could be possible that someone says "ohhh, that is easy to repair!"

#365Games 87

Space Quest (Sierra On-Line 1986) MS-DOS

#retroGaming #retrocomputing

Another game that I made a full narrative analysis video for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZmjIxI5egc

Trying to setup a classic Mac emulator on my 2012 MacBook Pro running Catalina… not so fun, brew spent several hours building and installing the dependencies for qemu before it failed because qemu needs at least clang-1500 now.

Sigh, I’ll try BasiliskII instead I guess?

If you missed the first batch (like I did), it seems like the #ZXSpectrum remake from RetroGames is back in stock at Amazon. So get yours now!