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Hitting the road shortly for INIT HELLO, the new Apple II conference at the System Source Computer Museum in Baltimore. Fun, retro weekend ahead!
#AppleII #Apple2Forever #INITHELLO #conference #Baltimore #SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinghistory #TechHistory #vintageapple #Apple #CRT #nostalgia #retro #events #DMV
A new Apple II conference is coming to the System Source…
INIT HELLOForty years ago today, the Commodore Amiga 1000 was released to the world. With its unprecedented graphics & sound capabilities, powerful 16-bit CPU and custom chipset, and UNIX-like multitasking OS, the Amiga was a truly revolutionary system for its time. And, many are still in use to this day, with the platform seeing new software and hardware development from month to month.
I presently have three, myself. :-)
Happy 40th, Amiga!
#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #vintagtecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinghistory #computers #MC68K #AmigaDOS #AmigaOS #tech #technews #vintagetech
This is fascinating, the Computer Devices' DOT, the a portable that was the first computer to ship with Sony 3.5-inch disk drives and it had a *widescreen* CRT display (which supported 132x25 textmode!).
And the video ... has some surprises...
Well worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5i9BnJqlA
#DOT #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinghistory #computers #CRT #floppydisk #vintage #vintagetech #tech #video
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www.youtube.comSo if you ever wondered how OpenBSD 7.7 (most recent one at the time of writing) works on 23-year old PC, I have recorded a boot process.
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (single-core 1.6 Ghz) from 2002. i386, of course
RAM: 512 Mb DDR2
HDD: Some Western Digital 80Gb hard drive from ~2004
Fresh OpenBSD installation without any tweaks and tuning boots in 88 seconds.
There's definitely a room for improvement such as turning off libraries reordering (we should't worry about security too much on such machine). Less then a minute is easily possible.
But still, results are amazing, I think. It's a 23-year old PC! And it runs the most recent OS without any trouble. Try to do that with Windows 11 or any mainstream Linux distro.
Also, #FVWM is pretty snappy and works just fine.
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www.youtube.comThis is astonishingly impressive: A2Stream
"A2Stream simultaneously receives an .a2stream file from any HTTP server and plays it through the stock Apple II speaker circuit using pulse-width modulation at 22050Hz sample rate with ~5.17 bit resolution."
Demo video with direct line-in - sounds amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYEnYsI-_M
#AppleII #Apple2Forever #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #audio #Uthernet #modernretro #nostalgia #Apple #vintageApple #vintagetech #tech
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www.youtube.comThere are FOUR Different Atari XE Computers
#Atari #Atari8Bit #AtariXE #Atari65XE #Atari130XE #Atari800 #Atari800XE #AtariXEGS #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd #RetroToKnow
Currently reading up on the whole "memory situation" in #DOS
EMS/XMS/HMA/UMA/UMB
Its one big acronym salad.
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputing #retrocomputers
Are you a RISC user?
(MC68010 for scale)
#magazines #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #magazine #computermagazines #Acorn #Archimedes #Archie #RISCOS #ARM #photo
Welcome to 1976. Those were the days!
"Basic Computer Terms”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gpM-KfVng (15:44)
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www.youtube.comAmiga CD32 discs have interesting layout: first - data track, then - audio tracks, like this (captured with cdrdao
):
Track Mode Flags Start Length
------------------------------------------------------------
1 DATA 4 00:00:00( 0) 03:12:44( 14444)
2 AUDIO 0 03:12:44( 14444) 02:45:05( 12380)
3 AUDIO 0 05:57:49( 26824) 10:15:33( 46158)
4 AUDIO 0 16:13:07( 72982) 03:02:22( 13672)
...
23 AUDIO 0 52:15:27(235152) 01:52:47( 8447)
Leadout AUDIO 0 54:07:74(243599)
Wondering is it always so? I only have several
game and demo discs to explore
#commodore #amiga #amigacd32 #cd #disc #retrogaming #retrocomputers
I had performance problems in #Doom over #IPX, that turned out to be because one of my nics was running at 10 half duplex.
So I replaced it with a PCI nic. But it wasn't getting an IRQ at all. So I had to move it to a different slot which was directly next to the AGP. So now there's capton tape on the back of the NIC so it doesn't short out against the VGA heatsink.
Aren't #retrocomputers just the best?
This opens right in front of my apartment!
Demoscene, retro computers and they even shows 2600 magazine :)
https://kskpd.pl/pl/projekty/muzeum/
I need to go there asap.
I was getting ready to set up a Mac Plus and placed it in a table while I dug out the keyboard and mouse. I bumped the table and knocked the machine onto the floor head first... I have brought shame to my ancestors...
... But it still works... Not even a scratch!
I am looking for an Amiga 2000 CPU accelerator that features a physical enable/disable switch.
Anyone have one sitting around they're looking to sell? I'm using a 68020 accelerator now, so anything would be faster.
#Amiga #Amiga2000 #hardware #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #accelerators #CommodoreAmiga #MC68K #Motorola
Oh come on! I read this assuming they got it running on the front-mounted 180x32 backlit LCD display!
;->
#weak
#Apple #ANS #Mac #PowerPC #vintageApple #vintagecomputing
#retrocomputing #retrocomputers #DOOM #retrogaming #technews #tech #AIX
Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be…
Mastodon 🐘Happy International Amiga Day!
(It's father of the Amiga, Jay Miner's birthday, which some observe as such.)
#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #Commodore #A1000 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #setups #CRT #pixelart #retrogaming #games #gaming #posters #nostalgia #mouse #Archon #InternationalAmigaDay #IAD
Here's a gem that I just found on the Internet Archive. It's a catalogue for the JOHN SANDS SEGA home computer system, from around 1984: https://archive.org/details/John_Sands_Sega_Home_Computers_1984_John_Sands_Electronics_AU/mode/1up
#ComputerHistory #ComputerGames #RetroComputers #RetroGames #Sega #RetroComputing #Australia
Sega 3000 Catalog: John Sands Sega Home Computers (1984)(John…
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