Josip Retro Bits @josipretrobits@qoto.org

Retro podcast for your commute?
https://youtu.be/0k6jJ-NHTy8 This week we talk about Ocean Software, the end of the iPod era and more! Watch on #YouTube or search for This Week in #Retro on your #podcast app 👍

Typed in a little #BASIC program I found on the internet to generate some artwork on my #Atari. This took way longer than it should have but scroll through to see what it produced.

Do Flat Tyres Make Your Speedo Lie? https://hackaday.com/2022/05/22/do-flat-tyres-make-your-speedo-lie/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1528601776743763968

Sweet dreams of rhythm and dancing
Sweet dreams of passion through the night
Sweet dreams are taking over
Sweet dreams of dancing through the night

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

This weekend's agenda:
- play Call of Cthulhu
- find my solder
- start on my RC2014
- read enough of the VisionBASIC manual to be dangerous
- be dangerous

#RIP #Vangelis

Good morning Fediverse! Here is your #vintagecomputer picture for today: my Issue Two 48k ZX Spectrum, kindly sent to me by @GedgeHead (we actually did a trade and I sent him some floppy drives in exchange -- that was fun!)

The machine included a large number of tapes, so I dug out my wife's old Panasonic tape player to load some games. Took a few tries, but I got it going. It was fun loading from tape again after 30 years (on my Atari 400, back then). Gedge did a composite mod on it before he sent it to me so I can run it easily on my PAL monitors here in the States.

Later, I sent some photos of the innards to "ZX Wife" (hmm...wonder if she's on Fedi...) who said it was probably originally a 16k Speccy that had been upgraded to 48k.

Hope everyone has a great day. Keep it retro 😎

HEART OF NEON: Jeff Minter's Life in Video Games

https://vimeo.com/706774433

If you think people complaining about "too many distros" in #Linux is a new thing, here's a 1985 "Computer Chronicles" episode where Stewart Cheift asked, "Why are there so many versions of #UNIX?"

https://smoliva.blog/post/computer-chronicles-revisited-032-system-v-svr2-bsd-4.2-hp-integral-pc/

Color(ing) Computer Needs No Batteries https://hackaday.com/2022/05/18/coloring-computer-needs-no-batteries/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1526835071633997824

@1HommeAzerty :
The #Python program on the left generates the picture on the right.

I made Bo. Bo is a Digital pet fly on Commodore 64 and in this video, I put Bo in several different situations and adventures.

The idea behind this video is to show how small tweaks of the same #code result in a different output.

#c64 #basic #programming #retrocomputing #commodore64

https://youtu.be/0P_IyFNwIkk

Guess I better jump on this bandwagon while it's still Friday here...

Some of my fine feathered #retrocomputing friends:

@dddaaannn
@josipretrobits
@thezerobit
@jonnypencils
@Wintermute_BBS
@multitink
@vwbusguy
@comchia
@CommodoreSpence

#ff #followfriday

I have used up all my data plan for this month, so my speed is capped at 64 Kbps.

This is a friendly reminder to all web developers: Keep your bundle sizes small, only ship what you need, compress your images, YOU DON'T NEED REACT IN YOUR F-ING BLOG, test your sites on slow connections and slow phones.

You using a Galaxy S22 Ultra with an unlimited 5G plan doesn't mean everyone else does too.