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David Somers<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>strypey</span></a></span> X.500 for email (via dialup X.25). Yes, I was a very early adopter. Yes, I’m “old”. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
JennyFluff :heart_trans:<p>welp, my second dead 3.5 inch sony drive.</p><p>Gosh I love these as an archivist, they're reading so well but why do they have to fail so quickly...</p><p><a href="https://chitter.xyz/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://chitter.xyz/tags/softwareArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwareArchiving</span></a></p>
Breathing Retro<p>Desolate -- game from TI-83 Plus <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23calculator" target="_blank">#calculator</a> with a port for <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ZXSpectrum" target="_blank">#ZXSpectrum</a> <a href="https://github.com/nzeemin/spectrum-desolate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">github.com/nzeemin/spec...</a> There is also a project to port it to <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Arduboy" target="_blank">#Arduboy</a> <a href="https://community.arduboy.com/t/wip-desolate-a-remake-of-the-ti-83-plus-game/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">community.arduboy.com/t/wip-desola...</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23retrodev" target="_blank">#retrodev</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23retrogaming" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23retrocomputing" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23homebrew" target="_blank">#homebrew</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23assembler" target="_blank">#assembler</a></p>
gloriouscow<p>We can add an 8087 FPU to ArduinoX86.</p><p>The pin headers used are stackable. So we just make an 8088 sandwich with the 8087 on top.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
stuart<p>Smile of the week:</p><p>Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess. 1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs</p><p>Story: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/atari_vs_chatgpt_chess/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/06/09/ata</span><span class="invisible">ri_vs_chatgpt_chess/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chess</span></a> <a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://social.brainsys.com/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a></p>
iiiDIY<p>We hit another milestone! Thanks to everyone watching, subscribing, and sharing my videos!! ❤️ It’s a lot of fun making these things and sharing my hobby with 3400 like-minded people. Here’s to many more :)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>restoration</span></a></p>
Cmdr Jenny<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8r4LRcOXc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=lN8r4LRcOX</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/Commordore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commordore</span></a></p>
@Rp12Biker :verified:<p>A short idea of ​​mine. Based on the serial number of our <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/KneisnerM100" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KneisnerM100</span></a>, I'd guess it was manufactured in October 1978. It starts with 7810 and a following 01 at the end. I don't think they manufactured and sold 1001 of them in 1978. Would you agree?<br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ComputerMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerMuseum</span></a></p>
Silicon Underground (Dave F)<p>One of the biggest names in PC clones in 1983 was Eagle Computer. Tragically their CEO, Commodore alumnus Dennis Barnhart, died in a car crash the day of their IPO and things started going wrong from there. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://dfarq.homeip.net/eagle-computer-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-early-pc-clone/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dfarq.homeip.net/eagle-compute</span><span class="invisible">r-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-early-pc-clone/</span></a></p>
James | PixelRefresh.com<p>My Simon the Sorcerer collection for the Acorn Archimedes...</p><p>- Floppy disk version (9 of them!)<br>- CD-ROM talkie version</p><p>The Acorn A3010 was the platform where I first discovered the delights of Simon the Sorcerer.</p><p><a href="https://www.pixelrefresh.com/simon-the-sorcerer-remembering-my-first-point-and-click-adventure/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pixelrefresh.com/simon-the-sor</span><span class="invisible">cerer-remembering-my-first-point-and-click-adventure/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riscos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riscos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/acorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acorn</span></a></p>
concretedog<p>Writing an article for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rpimag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rpimag</span></a></span> about Picomite... It's pretty amazing that I have a really nicely featured boot to basic machine running with just a standard Pico H... with a cheapo SD card reader attached it has 16GB of storage! It's also sort of not oldschool somehow, it's a very feature rich <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basic</span></a>! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
🔏 Matthias Wiesmann<p>Took advantage of the long week-end to make a new release of my personal project: QuickDraw viewer, a tool to visualise and convert QD images used on old Macintosh computer into something modern like PDF or PNG. </p><p>This was mostly a maintenance release, switching to Swift 6 and adding the relevant synchronisation annotations. It's far from perfect but it works. I also improved the localisation, and some the documentation.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quickdraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quickdraw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swift</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macosx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macosx</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawV</span><span class="invisible">iewer</span></a></p>
Cuz :twit:<p>"A Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller (on a Pico board), driving monochrome VGA video and taking USB keyboard/mouse input, emulating a Macintosh 128K computer and disc storage."</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/RPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RPi</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/Macinsosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macinsosh</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/HardwareHacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HardwareHacks</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p><p>MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5 <a href="https://axio.ms//projects/2024/06/16/MicroMac.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">axio.ms//projects/2024/06/16/M</span><span class="invisible">icroMac.html</span></a></p>
Eliot Lash<p>RIP Bill Atkinson, creator of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCard</span></a>, <a href="https://social.coop/tags/MacPaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacPaint</span></a>, and much more. His software was way ahead of its time.</p><p>Myst and Riven co-creator Robyn Miller reflected on how much they owed to his software: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tinselman.bsky.social/post/3lr4ephezhc2g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/tinselman.bsk</span><span class="invisible">y.social/post/3lr4ephezhc2g</span></a></p><p><a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/07/bill-atkinson-pioneering-early-apple-engineer-dies-at-74" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">appleinsider.com/articles/25/0</span><span class="invisible">6/07/bill-atkinson-pioneering-early-apple-engineer-dies-at-74</span></a></p><p>1/</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ClassicMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicMac</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AppleLisa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AppleLisa</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>Bits &amp; Bytes, messaging:<br><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/oldtimeycomputershow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">twitch.tv/oldtimeycomputershow</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> </p><p>But the video is so fuzzy I can't see text or cursors.</p>
Blake Patterson<p>I am looking for an Amiga 2000 CPU accelerator that features a physical enable/disable switch.</p><p>Anyone have one sitting around they're looking to sell? I'm using a 68020 accelerator now, so anything would be faster.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Amiga2000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga2000</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputers</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/accelerators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accelerators</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CommodoreAmiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommodoreAmiga</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MC68K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MC68K</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Motorola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Motorola</span></a></p>
Chris Hanson<p>In honor of Bill Atkinson, I’ve been reading the QuickDraw source code released by CHM and writing a little C implementation of his Region structure, which was an incredibly elegant solution to a problem so many people working on window systems never even realized they had. RIP Bill. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BillAtkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillAtkinson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QuickDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuickDraw</span></a></p>
Thomas Cherryhomes<p>FujiNet is a WiFi Adapter for <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> systems. </p><p>It enables cross platform game play. </p><p>Even between this <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> 800, and Atari 2600?</p><p>Yes.</p><p><a href="https://fujinet.online/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fujinet.online/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
The Last Psion | Alex<p>We have a working <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/plptools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plptools</span></a> port for <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>!</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrodev</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/psion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psion</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>runbsd</span></a></p>
🦠Toxic Flange (Gurjeet)🔬⚱️🌚<p>I figured I would get around to fixing this up today. Then realizing I did more damage removing the ram chips the way I did. Argh! On one hand I wanna learn to fix this but on the other hand. Should I just grab a reproduction board? My soldering experience and desoldering is a step above nil. </p><p>If you can’t see it, what I did was broke the traces on the board around some sockets when I stupidly clipped the legs of the ram out instead of being patient </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/a500" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>a500</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a></p>
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