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Metin Seven 🎨<p>Nostalgic souvenirs from my adolescent trips to computer game shows in London in the late 1980s and early 1990s.</p><p>I was an Amiga game developer back then, in search of a publisher for our small team's games. It felt like visiting heaven.</p><p>Info + downloads:</p><p>● <a href="https://metinseven.nl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">metinseven.nl</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ➔ Team Hoi game devs.</p><p>● <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/TeamHoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamHoi</span></a></p><p><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GameDev</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/gamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamer</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/RetroGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGames</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/old" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>old</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a></p>
Chewie<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>badnetmask</span></a></span> those small cards are enough to be useful for retro games, maybe try asking someone involved in <a href="https://mammut.gogreenit.net/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroComputing</span></a> / <a href="https://mammut.gogreenit.net/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> ?<br>I bet most spectrum and bbc games will fit within 2gb easily, and clever people have made converters to pretend they are disk drives when they are actually sd cards or compact flash etc.</p>
Salvatore Lasorella<p>4 aprile 1975<br><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/accaddeoggi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accaddeoggi</span></a> </p><p>Bill Gates e Paul Allen fondano la Micro-Soft Company.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/retroinformatica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroinformatica</span></a></p>
Declan<p>On a sick day today and had some packages waiting for me at the local post office.<br>Got my hands on a Sun USB keyboard and mouse to go with the Sunblade 100 that <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.chinwag.org/@mike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mike</span></a></span> generously gave to me a couple of years ago.<br>Also got a sealed copy of Windows NT 4.0 Workstation because with the 3 weeks off work which starts next week I will be building that Pentium Pro NT workstation. <br><a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
IT News<p>A Proper OS For The Sega Genesis/Megadrive - The console wars of the early 1990s had several players, but the battle that matte... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/a-proper-os-for-the-sega-genesis-megadrive/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/03/a-prop</span><span class="invisible">er-os-for-the-sega-genesis-megadrive/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/segamegadrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>segamegadrive</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/segagenesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>segagenesis</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fusix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fusix</span></a></p>
Jim Lawless<p>Rob Sherman ( <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Atari_BBS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Atari_BBS</span></a></span> ) joins the Stray Pointers podcast to discuss his early years of BBSing in the 1980's and his current telnet bulletin-board systems running on Atari 8-bit gear.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bbsing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbsing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://straypointers.com/e/s3e05.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">straypointers.com/e/s3e05.htm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
SDF.ORG<p>Check out some pictures from the recent Spring Interim Computer Festival held last month in Seattle.</p><p><a href="https://sdf.org/icf/events/icf_spring_2025/photos/smj/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sdf.org/icf/events/icf_spring_</span><span class="invisible">2025/photos/smj/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>If ASN.1 was so great, how come they never made ASN.2?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/shitpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shitpost</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Build an 8-bit computer from scratch</p><p><a href="https://eater.net/8bit/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">eater.net/8bit/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Build" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Build</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/an" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>an</span></a> #8-bit <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/from" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>from</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scratch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scratch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/8bitcomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>8bitcomputer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DIYtechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIYtechnology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hardwarehacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardwarehacking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techprojects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techprojects</span></a></p>
IT News<p>The Weird Way A DEC Alpha Boots - We’re used to there being an array of high-end microprocessor architectures, and i... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-weird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-we</span><span class="invisible">ird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/alphastation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alphastation</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/workstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workstation</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/decalpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decalpha</span></a></p>
DesertFOX<p>I finally found some time updating my WinUAE emulation setup. I had been putting this off for some time, but I am glad everything worked and the games are still running fine! This is so precious!</p><p>- Updated WinUAE to 5.3.1 (again)<br>- Updated Kickstarter ROMs to 47.115<br>- Updated Amiga OS 3.2 to 3.2.3<br>- Updated WHDLoad to 19.1</p><p>AMIGA!!!!! :pacmanblinky: </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WinUAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinUAE</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AmigaOS32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmigaOS32</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Workbench" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Workbench</span></a></p>
eiZen<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://furries.club/@dinosaurgerms" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dinosaurgerms</span></a></span> <br>Hey, I think Gun Fight is featured in that <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Olsenbande" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Olsenbande</span></a>'n movie #9 where the computer went crazy (due to Egon putting a nail into a hole):</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8_6jNRzO0g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=F8_6jNRzO0</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0076495" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">m.imdb.com/title/tt0076495</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>I wonder how much of an advantage it was for <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> that the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>m68k</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> had a bunch of its operating system in a separate ROM chip.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> didn't have that. The whole thing had to be loaded from disk into RAM.</p><p>Windows 1.0 required no less than 256kB of RAM—twice as much as the first <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> model had.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Montalvo<p><a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <br>Una nueva <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/psion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psion</span></a> modelo XP para la colección..</p>
eiZen<p>I d'idnt have </p><p>«Reverse éngineering BASIC syntax from exámples in à French Thomson TO7 book» </p><p>on my Bìngó cárd but here we àre.</p><p>- <a href="https://archive.org/details/p.-s.-i.-basic-plus-80-routines-sur-mo-5-et-to-7-70/page/13/mode/1up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/p.-s.-i.-b</span><span class="invisible">asic-plus-80-routines-sur-mo-5-et-to-7-70/page/13/mode/1up</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ThomsonTO7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomsonTO7</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br>Pardon my <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>French</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Australia’s Silliac Computer - When you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the work ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/australias-silliac-computer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/03/austra</span><span class="invisible">lias-silliac-computer/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>australia</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/silliac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silliac</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/illiac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illiac</span></a></p>
cpcbegin<p>Retropixel 2025, el evento retro gratuito de Málaga es este fin de semana<br><a href="https://malagaoriginal.blogspot.com/2025/04/retropixel-2025-el-evento-retro.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">malagaoriginal.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/04/retropixel-2025-el-evento-retro.html</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/malaga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>malaga</span></a></p>
Dr Johnny Blanchard<p>New thing arrived, the Sinclair Spectrum +3 internal hard disk thingy with 3e roms <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪<p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cat</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/mainecoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mainecoon</span></a> </p><p>Recapping supervisor 🐈😸</p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 04.04. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
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