There is an awesome new retro computer called the Commander X161. The X16 is Commodore 64-esque, though the assembly language stuff isn’t compatible because the X16 has a special graphics boa…| Mark Biek
The last time I used a dial-up modem came sometime around 2001. Within just a few years, dial-up had exited my life, never to return. I haven’t even had a telephone line in my house for most of my adult life. But I still feel a strong tinge of sadness to know that AOL is finally retiring the ol’ hobbyhorse. At the end of September, it’s gone. The timeline is almost on-the-nose fitting: The widespread access to the Internet AOL’s service brought in the 1990s is associated with a digita...| IEEE Spectrum
I always loved Pez, and this seems like a wonderfully well crafted game. There’s a resurgence of interest in retro computing, yes, but what I like the most are “backports” and entirely original software created for 80s hardware…| Tao of Mac
A compiler for a functional low-level language, targeting tiny computers.| Codeberg.org
This is part 2 of a series on PC floppy copy protection methods. You can read Part 1, covering Formaster Copy-Lock here.| Adventures in PC Emulation
Sorry, Doc Brown: we still needed roads in 1985. That meant paper atlases and misfolded roadmaps and a lot of stereotypical male anxiety a...| oldvcr.blogspot.com
What I Do and Don't Miss About MacOS| rldane.space
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Throughout my stint as an IT industry analyst during the 2000s, one of my significant interests was Intel's Itanium processor, a 64-bit desi...| bitmason.blogspot.com
This is a guest post written by Jacob Kowall and Hilary Szu Yin Shiue, 2021 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management & Services Division (DCMS) under the mentorship of Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator. Jacob and Hilary assisted in updating and expanding the Sustainability of Digital Formats website, which provides information and analysis on …| The Library of Congress
When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an A500+ from my Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga could do it all, it became my programming environment for electronic eng…| Hackaday
Way back in May of 2018, I was unable to get the SparcStation 1+ to stop returning “Illegal Instruction” errors for any attempt at booting. This made absolutely no sense to anyone I asked about it, and they suggested replacing the PROM battery, because at least then we’d have fewer known-broken parts in the computer. I ignored this advice, and just stuck the computer in a corner with the other broken machines for awhile so it could think about what it did.| Leaded Solder
More retrocomputing, less nostalgia| datagubbe.se
I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next natural step from the Motorola 68000 family...| oldvcr.blogspot.com
When I got the CoCo, one of the big problems was the super-smeary, snowy video on the RF-out. Even though composite video is generated internally by the video circuitry of the computer, Tandy didn’t end up breaking it out to an actual port. Lots of other 8-bit machines of the era are in the same boat. Luckily, adding a composite video port to the CoCo is very straightforward! So straightforward, in fact, that I did it twice.| Leaded Solder
Finding and buying modern replacements for old| Rubenerd
Bad Apple!! CD+G| gashlin.net
The Amiga 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems: Deal or no deal?| www.datagubbe.se
setting up 20 year old hardware is bound to work first try, right? ... right?| catstret.ch
Because my sisters were taking rollerskating lessons and my own rink skills mostly consisted of pratfalling, my mother would occasionally ...| oldvcr.blogspot.com
Punched paper tape was once the default way of storing and transferring information, even before computing. But in 2025 your options for creating new tapes are limited to digging through eBay for a real punch, one which is large, heavy, surprisingly expensive and in need of mechanical care. Or lasers.| unimplementedtrap.com
"Look," says Jane. "I'm a computer program. Run, computer program, run." I still maintain that the 1986 Commodore 128DCR is the best 8-b...| oldvcr.blogspot.com
How can I try out Cosmoe?| cosmoe.org
A not-so-brief look at the EXE file compression utility LZEXE.| cosmodoc.org
DCJ11 Single Board Computer| My PDP-11 Projects
Last time I stated that I will not dive any deeper than mnemonics. I truly, really wanted to. But when I started learning about how| Fom the keybord of Michał Sapka
In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor, a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for st...| www.righto.com
I was reading Clayton's blog post about his habit of buying larger and larger USB thumb drives back in the day (when they were getting rapidly larger every few months), and it reminded me of a wish I had in the 2000s that got only partially fulfilled. As anyone who …| R.L. Dane
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The PS2 is more than capable of doing some wild things, including running Linux. I always wondered if we could just write baremetal Go code on it, so I decided to give it a try.| Ricardo
Rotary dial telephones are a fantastic way to start learning about electronics. They’re built to be disassembled and serviced (because they were originally rent…| yaymukund's weblog
This is a story about restoring and upgrading a Commodore Amiga 1000, the first model of the Amiga series. Many of you might be familiar with the popular Amiga 500 or later models, but the Commodore Amiga 1000 was actually the first model of the Amiga series produced. I consider the A1000 a significant piece of home computing history. Arguably one of the most important machines of the 16-bit revolution period, considered by many to be the first multimedia computer, it marked the beginning of ...| celso.io
I remember reading about Corewar roughly 20 years ago and thinking that I will have to have a go at that when I get the time. As often happens in life, things g| techtinkering.com
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What We Lost Along the Way| rldane.space
In Spring 1981 I was finishing up my medical internship at a busy teaching hospital. Despite a crazy on-call schedule and chronic sleep deprivation, I had also managed to successfully complete a di…| Henry Lowe
Background In the halcyon days of 16-bit microcomputers, there was a computer graphics technique used by many demos and some games known as Palette Rotation, Palette Shifting, Palette Animation, or Color Cycling. Computers weren't fast enough to change the entire contents of screen memory in graphics mode (even relatively low …| R.L. Dane
It’s been a minute, and I haven’t done a whole lot of emulation work recently, but this is a topic I’ve wanted to do a short post about for a while: a really simple audio enhancement for SNES and PlayStation emulation that works surprisingly well with some games.| jsgroth.dev
Definition of unlock| Something Nerdy Studios
I have ~5500 followers here on tumblr after years of activity, but I never liked the lack of interaction here. When I started the “blog” here, one of the goals was to get feedback and interesting insights from others when I was working on something retrocomputing related. This never worked. Tumblr was never really good for text interaction. This, along with a lack of time, caused me to reduce my activity here. Things got worse when many of the people I followed here moved elsewhere. Some ...| 80-90s Computing
Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS 4.00 a few weeks ago. Time to create new installation media for it!| fabulous.systems
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Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS 4.00 a few weeks ago. Thanks to meticulous reverse engineering, we now also have the sources for 4.01.| fabulous.systems
Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS 4.00. Unfortunately, their release is broken --- but the community fixed it in just under a week.| fabulous.systems
Just a few days before Christmas Day, 1989, I excitedly carried home one of the greatest Christmas gifts I have ever received. I vaguely remember going with my stepdad to the university computer store (The "MicroCentre," it was called; no relation to the large, currently-extant computer store chain) to pick …| R.L. Dane
In late 1982 I purchased my first ‘personal’ computer. Up to that point I had been using a variety of microcomputers and time sharing systems at school and work. My preferred home machi…| Henry Lowe
Apple II Pascal is an implementation of a portable Pascal language system developed at University of California San Diego (UCSD) in the late 1970s by Professor Kenneth Bowles and his students. The UCSD Pascal system contained a menu-based operating system and an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) consisting of a Filer, Editor, Compiler, Linker and Assembler. The … Continue reading "Installing Apple II UCSD Pascal"| Henry Lowe
You are thinking about acquiring a 40 year-old Apple II computer. Perhaps you are feeling nostalgic and wish to play fondly remembered games or you plan on getting back into BASIC programming. In my case I wanted to reconstruct the Apple II Pascal development environment I used in 1982. Having recently gone through the process … Continue reading "So You Want an Apple II Computer?"| Henry Lowe
The same year (1983) that Apple released the Lisa computer I discovered the Pascal programming language. In 1980 I learned to program using BASIC on an Apple II Plus computer. I had taken an introductory class in programming while working as a medical intern and became ‘hooked’. Following my internship I worked as lead designer … Continue reading "A Computing Time Machine"| Henry Lowe
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the 1983 debut of Apple’s Lisa computer, the first commercially available personal computer to use a graphical user interface (GUI). In late 1979, Steve…| Henry Lowe
I have a Haskell-era MSI B85-G41 PC Mate motherboard and I decided to use it as a “mid-tier”-ish gaming PC and also as a TV set top box. I already had a WinTV-DCR-2650 dual-tuner CableCARD USB device, and I was gifted a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 for the project. The board had 32 GB RAM … Continue reading "Dual-booting Windows 11 and Windows 7 on a Haswell"| The Cat Fox Life
If you’ve been following my blog since the inception of the Universal Chip Analyzer (UCA) journey, you might recall a post with the same title I published in mid-2021. At that time, I was excited to unveil the second version of the UCA, a project I had been dedicated to since 2017. Unfortunately, shortly after … Continue reading "Final Universal Chip Analyzer disclosed!"| X86.FR | Doc TB's R&D Lab
I’ve just repaired the hinge on my Indigo Clamshell. While I was in there, I also replaced the aging hard disk with a SD card adaptor. I wanted to write down a few notes about the process, both for posterity and so that others can benefit from my experience. The standoffs for the hard disk … Continue reading "Notes about the iBook G3 Clamshell"| The Cat Fox Life
I launched my Daily MS-DOS command bot a few months ago. Starting simple, it turned out to be quite an adventure.| fabulous.systems
Video: C Programming on System 6 - VCF Midwest 18, Subtext FidoNet Support, Wi-Fi DA, PowerBook Batteries| jcs.org
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Adding Wi-Fi to the Macintosh Portable| jcs.org
Subtext 2.0 Released with FidoNet Support| jcs.org
