Josip Retro Bits @josipretrobits@qoto.org

🕹 Atari Lives, IE does not, and the minions are coming - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-24

https://www.gozgeek.com/posts/2022/atari-internet-explorer-minions-theoffice-this-geek-review-2022-06-24/

Echo And The Bunnymen – Heaven Up Here https://ift.tt/QeRAbqO #revivalrecords #vinyl

Let’s address the name of the band first, shall we?

Well, it turns out there is no special or cerebral hidden meaning if we are to believe Will Sergeant, the lead guitarist, it was just a st…

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Still available to download to try/buy for Windows and Mac.

Just tested the latest Mac binary (Universal PPC and Intel compiled in 2012) and it works fine under Rosetta 2 on a M1 Max MacBook with my screen saver license from 2015. 🤓

#RetroComputing #Screensavers #MarineAquarium #SereneScreen
https://www.serenescreen.com/v2/issues.html?os=ios#download

Thanks to some rather quick delivery I can, at least, remove the Bluetooth tape out of the equation #retrocomputers #retrocomputing #xp

Would Duke Nukem make a good movie in 2022 or would it be like cringing at that outdated, sexist uncle at the family wedding?
https://youtu.be/1RfxjHrUlqw

We discuss this and all the retro news of the week on TWIR. Watch on YouTube or search “This Week in Retro” on your #podcast app https://twitter.com/RMCRetro/status/1538776943805583365/photo/1

James Brown (@ancient_james on Twitter) tweets:

I wired the brick up as a very small external monitor, so you can, for instance, play Doom on it.

#Lego #Doom #Maker

More on James Brown's brick:

https://www.hackster.io/news/james-brown-s-lego-computer-brick-hides-a-fully-functional-programmable-oled-display-bf686c392057

https://twitter.com/ancient_james/status/1538651525945630720

https://twitter.com/ancient_james/status/1534002794726031360

@/pripyatbeast My Windows 98 rig is my go-to for late 90s/early 2000s

1GHz Pentium III, 256MB RAM, 16MB Voodoo 3 AGP, Aureal Vortex 2 and Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold sound cards, and a variety of storage devices packed into a Lian Li PC-62 case https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/1538578802514792451/photo/1

I love the look of all these new components on the new board, knowing (well, hoping, really) that it will eventually become a #C64 ++ #uEliteBoard64

Exploring the abandoned birthplace of the 6502 and Commodore 64

https://gadgeteer.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/exploring-abandoned-birthplace-400x225.jpg Wow, imagine going back to visit the abandoned building where you started work about 35 years previously, where you went in and out with lots of other people full of hopes and dreams. Amazingly, too, […]

https://gadgeteer.co.za/exploring-the-abandoned-birthplace-of-the-6502-and-commodore-64/ https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10-c8f6f96a-e4cf58ebf9d03b1c

u/tate_peterson3 posts on Reddit:

You would not believe where I found the entire setup

#RetroComputing #IMSAI8080
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/vds9oy/you_would_not_believe_where_i_found_the_entire/

To all those naysayers that think that putting your #retrocomputing items in the sun doesn't work. Here's a before and after of the #Atari STE that has been in the UK sun for 4 days. As you can see the keyboard has lost a lot of its pumpkin colour. The UV levels ranged from 6-8 on those days.

In my new video: Check some interesting patterns on C64 created in Commodore Basic.
Hi-Res 10 Print Maze, Amiga or Croatian Checkerboard, ...

#retrocomputing #commodore64 #basic #programming

https://youtu.be/Spn6Sf3zrI8