Ok much less wonky now. Still not there but it’s getting closer. :)
#retrocomputing

Journalling on the eMate

https://www.scotgate.org/2025/10/08/journalling-on-the-emate/

Playing 1991 Bitmap Brothers "Gods" on Retro Deck at the moment. Had it on the Amiga as a kid and played it a lot I think. Only realising now that I never made it past the second level back then though (playing with unlimited lives now). Well, it's not an easy game...

We've made a great deal of progress decoding the NEC V20 microcode in a very short period of time.

These are just so pretty inside and outside
#retrocomputing

Looks like the ABC80 survived the trip in one piece. Haven't turned it on yet, but no cracks or rattling. And of course, only the best: Swedish quality diskettes from Kopparberg!

I miss that, the small scale, national computer industries. Today, it's all boring same-old-same-old stuff from multinational conglomerates, no creativity, no diversity, just one homogenous boring mass.

#ABC80 #LuxorABC80 #RetroComputing #Sweden #525 #Diskette #Cassette #FloppyDisk #FloppyDiskDrive

Hiya, das Oldenburger Computer-Museum e. V. hat das #Fediverse erreicht und sucht nun die Leute aus der #Retrocomputing und #Retrogaming Szene ... zeigen wir den Lieben doch, wie schön es hier ist und dass es ganz viele Retro-Freunde hier gibt bitte hier folgen und gerne teilen Danke #neuhier

https://mastodon.social/@ocm

A view of the entrance to our permanent exhibition of home computers from the 1970s and 1980s. All devices are fully functional and accessible to our visitors.

Mentioned in today's #lispygopher show, adventure books with computer programming puzzles:
https://archive.org/details/RetroGamingBooksFiction/MicroAdventureNo.1-SpaceAttack1984.pdf

You want all the Micro Adventure, Arcade Explorer, "A Magic Micro Adventure", and Time Lost books. The rest are mostly pick-a-path in videogame worlds with no coding.
#retrocomputing #books

The #FujiNet WiFi Adapter can save files anywhere on the network. Here we see an #Atari8bit saving to a Windows file share, directly from Atari BASIC. Cool, huh?

Windows 1.0 with Steve Ballmer (1986) (HQ, 60FPS)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DgJS2tQPGKQ

game i've been thinking about for 30 years:

when i was 12 years old, my neighbour's dad brought home a "new" computer - which turned out to be an Amstrad 1512... an ibm xt compatible-ish clone that was 6+ years old by the time he bought it

it came with a handful of diskettes, one of them titled "ADULT" in sharpie along with a cartoon drawing of a woman's breasts. it was a booter iirc, and when it loaded, it presented you with a password prompt.

my friend and i stayed up until 2am trying to guess that password to no avail. i think the password prompt only had room for 4 or 5 letters/numbers. we would come back to the diskette every few months trying some new password we had thought up, and never once managed to get in.

to this day i've never figured out what game this was. i assume that since we were on a 1512, it was probably a PC/DOS booter.

does anyone remember any games like this? knowing my buddy's dad, it was likely a strip poker game of some kind.

J'ai un truc à tester sur mon #MO5, mais il faut charger un programme BASIC… Donc on va câbler l'adaptateur jack vers port K7…

http://dcmoto.free.fr/bricolage/interface_audio/index.html

Aus eins mach zweiZwei Programme laufen gleichzeitig im C 64 ab. | 64'er Magazin
https://www.64er-magazin.de/SH8505/multiprogramming.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Mit dieser kleinen Routine »verdoppeln« Sie Ihren Computer. Sie sind damit in der Lage, zwei Maschinenprogramme praktisch gleichzeitig laufen zu lassen.

So last night the dev team released a new version of Superbasic for the F256K2 that boosted my sprite load performance by 10x at least. Had to make a video to show the difference and some new features.
https://makertube.net/w/4J6wLKUFuPFWkESGyqR5Ff