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Winamp has taken the open-source route!
https://news.itsfoss.com/winamp-open-source/
The 90s Favorite Media Player 'Winamp' is Opening its Source!
The nostalgia hits, with good news.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
π° CP/M: An Unsung Architect of Micro-Computing
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@itsfoss
γ The era of CP/M, in my opinion, represents the beginnings of microcomputer history. It was a time of rapid innovation, community building, and exploration as enthusiasts, developers, and entrepreneurs were beginning to shape what would become our current, modern digital world γ
https://itsfoss.com/cp-m-os-history/
#CPM #Retrocomputing #ComputingHistory
CP/M: An Unsung Architect of Micro-Computing
You may have not used CP/M ever but you should definitely know about it if you take interest in the history of computing.Bill Dyer (It's FOSS)
Sad news β Niklaus Wirth passed away on January 1st π’. RIP.
https://twitter.com/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347
There are a number of Mastodon apps for old computers of the 1980s and 1990s:
Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/
Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
Commodore 64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon
MS-DOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON
PalmOS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump
Windows 95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups
rust9x 1.76.0 is close! Now with unwinding, backtrace support and thread parking working :V
The development of the next ScummVM version is progressing each and every day!
Please help us providing the most stable version ever by giving the prerelease versions a try!
https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#daily
If you enounter any bugs, please report them to bugs.scummvm.org, our Discord server or right here! β₯οΈ
#scummvm #retrograming #retrocomputing
ScummVM
ScummVM is a collection of game engines for playing classic graphical RPGs and point-and-click adventure games on modern hardware.www.scummvm.org
The NuBus started as an MIT research project and was used in such diverse machines as the NuMachine by TI (originally designed by Western Digital), LMI's Lambda and TI's Explorer Lisp machines, the TI1500 family of Unix servers, Apple's 68k (starting with the Mac II) and first generation PowerPC Macintoshes (7100/8100) and, in a modified version, as expansion bus for the NeXT Cube.
#retrocomputing #NuBus #NeXT #Lisp #Mac68k #TI
Okay, folks, as you know, I'm watching an anime "16-bit sensation", a show about NEC PC-98 nostalgia. It made me power up my PC-9821 Aile and boot into DOS/V, and finally try to launch some high-end PC-98 games. And I am speechless. Even on an LCD screen from mid-90s, the art is legendary.
PC-98 series is a special beast. Conceived by NEC as a business computer, the first models were based on Intel's powerful 8086 (the year was 1982). Unlike IBM PC clones, PC-98 supported Japanese out of the box, with complicated input system and thousands of kanji. To make the kanji look good, or, rather, at least minimally readable, the computer's graphics was 640x400 in 16 colours.
As you can imagine, adding Japanese support to a regular PC is hard. No one could do it, and NEC PC-98, became the biggest thing.
For PC games, it made all the difference.
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Itβs not #Caturday yet in this country but Marx π± is already posing on his favorite #RetroComputing devices.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Apple #Mac
Here's another new artwork: "An Hour with ELIZA," a dot-matrix print of a conversation between the 1960's "psychotherapist algorithm" ELIZA and ChatGPT 4.
I'm excited to announce the completion of "Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page (Charles H. Moore and the pursuit of simplicity.)"
Recommended for fans of: historical computing, programming languages, and space technology.
http://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html
#forth #RetroComputing #history
Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page
An exploration of the evolution and meaning of the Forth programming language and its context in history.ratfactor.com
When a #RIFA cap feels threatened, it fans out it's plumage to make itself look bigger.
#VintageComputing / #RetroComputing
after I had it on for 20 or 30 minutes, it let out the magic smoke from an X-class capacitor on the PSU board. #retroComputing #sparky #magicSmoke
I found some info from someone who had a very similar failure and positively identified the failed capacitor (mine was unidentifiable): http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/Xerox/820-II.html
This is easily the most insanely unique (if slightly slow as a result) visual concept for displaying βdrawersβ I think Iβve ever seen.
Interlocking Drawer icons illustrated to resemble a very fancy menu UI. π€―
Even the disk icon is amazing.
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#amiga #Commodore #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #workbench #UI
While traveling today, I pulled off the highway to find a place to use the bathroom and stumbled upon a really awesome computer museum. As soon as I pulled up I saw a Cray 1 through the window.
We didn't have an appt for a tour, but the owner spent an hour and a half walking us through everything. Super awesome place. If you're ever in the Cockeysville, MD area, check out the System Source Computer Museum! #retrocomputing #VintageApple
#interlisp #retrocomputing
http://ratfactor.com/forth/forth_talk_2023.html
I happen to know some of you enjoy space ships, calculators, and old computers as much as I do.
#MastoArt #RetroComputing #Forth #ConfusedCat
#theFoundry #theWorkshop #retrocomputing #blinkenlights
https://archive.org/details/Wishbringer4amMacCrack
#macintosh #retrocomputing
Wishbringer r68 (4am crack) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Wishbringer is a 1985 adventure game written by Brian Moriarty and distributed by Infocom. This is release 68, dated 1985-05-01, running interpreter D. It...Internet Archive
My first serious personal project was about 10 years ago when I wrote this video codec for the Apple II, which played short looping animations converted from animated gifs. You load em off of a standard 5.25β 140k floppy!
Hereβs the hackaday on it:
https://hackaday.com/2013/07/22/animated-gifs-on-an-apple-ii/
#introduction #vintagecomputer #retrocomputing #maker #programming #appleii
Animated GIFs On An Apple II
Before the Internet, computer enthusiasts needed to get their cat pictures, image macros, and animated gifs somehow. If only [Nate] was writing code back in the 80s: he created a video player for tβ¦Hackaday
https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2143
It arrived yesterday and look at its beauty. I mean LOOK AT IT.π
It was sold as non-working but I have high hopes since it needs a cartridge to boot up.
If this one is working, then I'll probably sell or trade my other one which has a slightly less nice box.
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #C64 #Max04
#theFoundry #theWorkshop #retrocomputing #blinkenlights
Super neat way to get hardware protected mode on a Z80!
#retrocomputing #z80
The Z80's secret feature discovered after 40 years!
For years, it's generally accepted that 8 bit microcomputer CPUs does not have hardware support for protected mode. However, my recent discovery shows otherw...YouTube
Banksia is, near as I can tell, an Australian company that produced modems - and nothing else I ever saw.
This was the brand of modem I had as a kid, dialling BBSs. I had this exact type of 28.8Kbps modem even into the internet dial-up era, never getting a 56k modem at all - i went straight to cable internet from 28.8.
So I'm delighted at getting one of these again! #retrocomputing
It's an LC 575. It doesn't power on, unfortunately, or so I'm told. I plan to open it up and do an inspection for blown caps and the like at some point soon, probably when my better-than-me-at-electronics friend is free to give it a look.
I'm hoping I can get this thing working again - I used a Mac Plus during my school days, along with Apple ][ early on.
But this era of Mac is foreign to me.
#retrocomputing