Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Here's a demo of my new PAL dumping / chip poking / bit banging tool called PALchemy

Let me know what you think!

#retrocomputing

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Telesoftware | 64'er Magazin
https://www.64er-magazin.de/8603/telesoftware.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Für Sie als Besitzer eines Heimcomputers ist das wachsende Angebot von Telesoftware wahrscheinlich das zugkräftigste Argument für Btx. Auch für den C 64 werden schon einige Programme angeboten, die sich zum Teil kostenlos über Btx abrufen lassen.

Installed the vAmiga emulator on MacOS today, and I really like it. It's very accessible, and works like a charm.

https://dirkwhoffmann.github.io/vAmiga

The developer has also made a Commodore 64 emulator, which I'm planning to check out tomorrow:

https://dirkwhoffmann.github.io/virtualc64

#GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #8bit #16bit #Commodore64 #C64 #commodore #amiga #IT #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

Telesoftware | 64'er Magazin
https://www.64er-magazin.de/8603/telesoftware.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Für Sie als Besitzer eines Heimcomputers ist das wachsende Angebot von Telesoftware wahrscheinlich das zugkräftigste Argument für Btx. Auch für den C 64 werden schon einige Programme angeboten, die sich zum Teil kostenlos über Btx abrufen lassen.

New video: Let's Code MS DOS 0x36: Sprites & Occlusion

In the last video we learned how to make 2D sprites with transparency and scaling. This time around we also make our Guybrush automatically scale with the background, limit his ability to move into nonsensical parts of the scene, and most important: Walk in front and behind objects.

https://youtu.be/2mf4bPU8OrU
#letscode #msdos #retrocomputing

New video: Let's Code MS DOS 0x36: Sprites & Occlusion

In the last video we learned how to make 2D sprites with transparency and scaling. This time around we also make our Guybrush automatically scale with the background, limit his ability to move into nonsensical parts of the scene, and most important: Walk in front and behind objects.

https://youtu.be/2mf4bPU8OrU
#letscode #msdos #retrocomputing

Sunday Funday in full effect! 😎 with Amiga Bill  #retrocomputing  #commodore  #c64  #amiga  #classicmac

Check out Don Knuth's "Let’s Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science" – his 2014 Kailath lecture at Stanford University.

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-tears-of-donald-knuth/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAXdDEQveKw

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #CS #Knuth #history

Check out Don Knuth's "Let’s Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science" – his 2014 Kailath lecture at Stanford University.

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-tears-of-donald-knuth/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAXdDEQveKw

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #CS #Knuth #history

Well, so that is my current collection of #Schneider Tower AT systems.

• Tower AT System 202
• Tower AT System 220
• AT 286 System 240 "Mega"
• VGA AT System 70

#RetroComputing

Well, so that is my current collection of #Schneider Tower AT systems.

• Tower AT System 202
• Tower AT System 220
• AT 286 System 240 "Mega"
• VGA AT System 70

#RetroComputing

Installed the vAmiga emulator on MacOS today, and I really like it. It's very accessible, and works like a charm.

https://dirkwhoffmann.github.io/vAmiga

The developer has also made a Commodore 64 emulator, which I'm planning to check out tomorrow:

https://dirkwhoffmann.github.io/virtualc64

#GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #8bit #16bit #Commodore64 #C64 #commodore #amiga #IT #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

Hello you wonderfully wierd fedizens. I'm looking for something, something so obscure someone here is bound to know it.

I'm looking for a font that 'feels'™ like old IBM terminals. I know of the 3270 font, however I find it a bit hard to rea

It's for a book, where I will use it for "forum posts" and "short messages". So, it'll be used for prose, but short.

I could use a regular monospace font, but would prefer something a bit more 80s.

#font #retrocomputing #writing #80s

Damals, als die iX noch eine Sonderpublikation der c't war: https://archive.org/details/ix-8811-ct-spezial-4 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #technikgeschichte #techhistory #unixhistory

“Windows 98 Developers”

#Linux #Windows98 #Windows95 #Windows #Retro #RetroComputing #Meme #Memes #Humor

This week on the blog: the biggest problem with my C64 hobby stuff on the blog is that I did it a long time ago and built out of the scraps of a dozen notebooks I'd kept for 15 years. I'm embarrassingly short on "reference page" articles to link back to.

So: C64 sprites, with focus on basic usage and multiplexing, and tabulating where, and how tight, the timing constraints are when messing with them mid-screen.

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/spritework-on-the-commodore-64/

#retrocomputing #commodore64 #commodore #c64

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