Blake Patterson

Forty 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

Blake Patterson

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.

youtube.com/watch?v=AR5i9BnJql

#DOT #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinghistory #computers #CRT #floppydisk #vintage #vintagetech #tech #video

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Jul 16, 2025, 02:52 · · · 1 · 0
chesheer

So 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.

youtube.com/watch?v=jrCtwh8yqU8

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Blake Patterson

This 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:

youtube.com/watch?v=YcYEnYsI-_

#AppleII #Apple2Forever #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #audio #Uthernet #modernretro #nostalgia #Apple #vintageApple #vintagetech #tech

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Johnny Blanchard
Please Subscribe for more videos Reuploaded to fix monosound We’ve taken a look at a few Fujitsu machines, whether it’s the earlier FM77’s or the later FM Towns and it’s console cousin the Marty. But today we’re taking a look at the machine that came right in the middle. Join the channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYF-5rMVfnI48w48EW2g3hA/join or Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/reenthused Background music: Young Squire by TrackTribe Don't forget our second channel, GamingEnthused: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNEAACpQmPT5-itmbOMcIiA Follow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/reenthused Official Merchandise: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/reenthused Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reenthused Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reenthused Web: https://www.re-enthused.com Chapters ======== 00:00 Intro 00:20 The history and specs 02:10 Looking at the hardware 05:45 Expansion cards 08:24 Software 13:40 Summary + Outro
Jul 06, 2025, 13:46 · · · 1 · 0
feyo

Currently reading up on the whole "memory situation" in #DOS

EMS/XMS/HMA/UMA/UMB

Its one big acronym salad. 😆

#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputing #retrocomputers

Gytis Repečka

Amiga 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? :blobcatthinkowo: I only have several :amiga: game and demo discs to explore :compact_disc:

#commodore #amiga #amigacd32 #cd #disc #retrogaming #retrocomputers

HP van Braam

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? 😄

#retrogaming #retrocomputing

Jun 14, 2025, 13:55 · · · 0 · 0
C:\KKJ\>:idle:

This opens right in front of my apartment!

Demoscene, retro computers and they even shows 2600 magazine :)

kskpd.pl/pl/projekty/muzeum/

I need to go there asap.

#Demoscene #retrogaming #retrocomputers #Poznan

TheNewsGuy

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!

#RetroComputers #MacTough

Blake Patterson

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