Reorganized the preference pane system. It purposefully no longer remembers the selected pane, which is more in-line with the actual Lisa, and settings apps on other OSs.
I also added the “Set all convenience settings to defaults” option from the original Lisa. Added it to the animations pane too.
#appleLisa #1-bit #1bit #retrocomputing #apple #macintosh #javascript #gui #ux #ui
Danuar posts longplay videos of retro games from classic computers, consoles and arcades, plus writes a text review of each game in the comments. You can follow at:
➡️ @danuar
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ulisp has indeed been (unofficially) ported to a VGA-out enabled microcontroller board!
#lisp #permacomputing #arduino #retrocomputing
I build another uLisp Mini Computer, this time it uses VGA output and a PS/2 keyboard, using the very impressive library ‘FabGl’ from Fabrizio Di Vittorio and his Loopback Terminal example (-> https://github.com/fdivitto/FabGL).uLisp Forum
🗃️ Meine Sammlungsdatenbank für Retro-Hardware (>2.500 Objekte) ist jetzt Open Source!
Aufräumarbeiten, erstes Git-Repo, ne Menge gelernt dabei. Alles dazu im Blogartikel + Code auf GitHub:
📖 jungsi.de/sammlungsdatenbank-o…
👉 github.com/Jungsis-Corner/samm…
#RetroComputing #OpenSource #PHP
Die Sammlungsdatenbank hat in den letzten Wochen einiges an neuen Feldern und einem Karten-Layout bekommen – das stand ja schon im Changelog. Was dort nicht draufsteht: Direkt danach habe ich mich …Jungsi (Jungsi's Corner)
The Mirari Amiga NG board brings MorphOS, Linux, NVMe storage, USB 3, and PCIe to a new, lower-cost PowerPC microATX system for Amiga fans.][avok (The Oasis BBS)
HippoPlayer 2.67 update adds AmiGUS Mini support, AMP search, XM playback upgrades, MP3 seeking, and many fixes for classic Amigas.][avok (The Oasis BBS)
A new font editor has arrived!
It lets you design your font (a.k.a. "charset" in the world of the C64) on a fancypansty modern machine. Even supports up to 2x2!
By @whitingx
KANJI - crossdev C64 font editor. Contribute to AMID64/KANJI development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Ab 1959 entwickelte Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann an der TH Dresden den D4a. Das Ziel war damals ungewöhnlich: kein Großrechner im Rechenzentrum, sondern ein Computer für den individuellen Arbeitsplatz.
1963 stand er auf dem Tisch.
Heute steht dieses Exemplar in den Technischen Sammlungen Dresden.
#Computergeschichte #D4a #Dresden #RetroComputing 🧵 1/4
TEIL 4/4: 🖥️ Was ist die Herausforderung bei der Z1 mit ihren rund 30.000 Einzelteilen?
💡 Die Z1 von Konrad Zuse, der erste frei programmierbare Computer der Welt (1936–1938), besteht aus rund 30.000 Einzelteilen, wie Bleche, Stifte, Federn und Schrauben. Wenn ein kleines Teil klemmt, kann das System ins Stocken geraten.
Unser Team arbeitet daran, den Nachbau von 1989 im Deutschen Technikmuseum wieder zum Leben zu erwecken.
🇯🇵 Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
｢ an operating system designed at the University of Tokyo in 1984 was ambitious enough to try to replace the file system with a hypermedia document model, run on a custom Japanese CPU architecture, and encode 1.5 million characters, only to have a US trade report single it out as an unfair trade barrier in 1989 ｣
xda-developers.com/japan-tried…
#japan #osdev #retrocomputing #tradewar
TRON was an ambitious project to say the least, and after a good start, it suddenly came to a screeching halt.Adam Conway (XDA)
Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi
hackaday.com/2026/08/23/amiga-…
#HackerNews #Tech #RetroComputing
There’s no actual data, but if we had to guess the least-favourite Disney movie of former Amiga owners would have to be Frozen, because none of them will ever be able to “Let it Go̶…Tyler August (Hackaday)
LisaFPGA looks neat >v>
youtube.com/watch?v=4jMb3pSJWc…
#LisaFPGA #AppleLisa #Lisa #GutBomb #RetroComputing
Check out PCBWay for PCB manufacturing, 3D printing, and more for your DIY projects at https://pcbway.com/g/UJe87iCheck out the new LisaFPGA from Alex Anders...GutBomb Industries (YouTube)
QEMU, now with (almost) full NeXT Black/M68K hardware support!
#nextstep #openstep #retrocomputing
QEMU, now with (almost) full NeXT Black/M68K hardware support! - blanham/qemu-NeXTGitHub
Buy my book! If you like #retrocomputing, you'll love the tech history in here.
Springer/Apress:
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Explore the history of writing with computers, how it has evolved and changed and what they can still teach us about technical writing and printing todaySpringerLink
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Amiga? Arduino? A MeagerBall gets the Uno Bouncing.
When the iconic “Boing Ball” first debuted 40 years ago, it was a wonder to behold. There was nothing like it in the home compuing world upto that time, and it showed that Commodore’s new “Amiga” was a powerhouse sure to last the test of time.
⁉️Forty years later, the Amiga as we knew it then might not be with us anymore but [Mark Wilson] is recreating its iconic demo on a microcontroller — but not just any microcontroller. “AMeagerBall” is an Arduino Uno exclusive, and it even tells the time.⁉️
github.com/funnypolynomial/AMe…
#amiga #retrocomputing #arduino #engineering #tech #media #news
My homage to the Amiga bouncing ball demo from 1984. Arduino Uno + 320x240 touch LCD shield and a Real Time Clock to make is a bit more interesting/useful.Gi...Mark Wilson (YouTube)
New publication! 🎉💻
My first paper in computer science is out: *Retrocomputing as a Model for Sustainable and Cognitive Computing*.
I explore what low-resource computing can teach us about computational minimalism, attention and sustainable design. 🧠🌱
Read it here:
academia.edu/171932531/Retroco…
#ComputerScience #Retrocomputing #HCI #SustainableComputing #CognitiveSustainability
Hi #retrocomputing experts! One of my colleagues at the French national archives wonders what these tapes are!
Bonus point if you have any clue about how to retrieve data from them...
I ran photoshop on a £0.60 Raspberry pi pico processor emulating a 1980s Apple Mac. It inspired me to think about simple computers.
TEIL 3/4: Wie funktioniert eigentlich die Zifferneingabe bei der Z1? 🤔 Wie rechnet der erste frei programmierbare Computer? Und wie werden Dezimalzahlen in das duale Zahlensystem übertragen?
💡 Der Nachbau der Z1 von Konrad Zuse besteht aus etwa 30.000 Einzelteilen, darunter Bleche, Stifte, Federn und Schrauben. Unser Team arbeitet aktuell daran, die Nachbildung von 1989 im Deutschen Technikmuseum wieder zum Leben zu erwecken.
Stuck gold today!
Picked up a ~1998 'KTX 1000' laptop.
A whopping 200mhz Pentium MMX with 32mb of ram and a 3GB HDD!
Boots straight to Windows 98 and all features work beautifully.
Now time to play with it. 😁
It's going to be pretty repetitive if I post every time I add an improvement to martypc.net , because i'm unemployed currently and have nothing else to do but push new features every day.
but this is a total transformation.
the new carousel interface is now live.
you can now select VGA and Adlib cards on PC.
you can plug in a gamepad and play Commander Keen in EGA.
it's like a real actual emulator now
My workshop at LRC on playing with UNIX V4 was a great success!
Everyone loved the teletype and terminal. In the manner of the day, I gave manuals to teach the system and ed (@ed1conf), and we now have a cohort of new ed users. A few groups solved or got close to solving my challenge of backporting the obfuscated mullender.c program from V7 to V4. Surprisingly with a dozen or so people on at once, UNIX handled the load fantastically.
Hab hier zwei #retrocomputing Drucker zu verschenken - fliegen nach der CC sonst in den Müll.
Ein NEC Silentwriter LC800 im Karton
Und ein NEC Pinwriter p6 Plus
Beide ungetestet und lange rumliegend.
Beim Silentwriter kein Versand.
Kann sie gerne am Wochenende mit zum #VCFE nach #Huenfeld oder später zur #Classiccomputing nach #Celle mitnehmen.
Adrian’s Digital Basement repairs a C64 extra spacebar mystery, tracing its keyboard mods and fixing a black-screen hardware fault.][avok (The Oasis BBS)
Did you know there is a dedicated Unicode block dedicated to "Symbols for Legacy Computing"?!
It includes characters from the Amstrad CPC, MSX, Mattel Aquarius, RISC OS, MouseText, Atari ST, TRS-80 Color Computer, Oric, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, TRS-80, Minitel, Teletext, ATASCII, PETSCII, ZX80, and ZX81!
FujiNet MOB Tool for #Intellivision. An example of how game developers can use FujiNet in their #gamedev workflows.
github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet… in the intv/ folder.
A Network Aware Sprite Design tool. Contribute to FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-sprite-tool development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
via Esther Schindler:
Digi-Comp 1 von ESR - der erste digitale Computer für zuhause...
youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71y…
The Digi-Comp I, a plastic mechanical computer from 1963. This is episode 96 of my video series about old scientific and calculating instruments.This video w...Chris Staecker (YouTube)
actual SGI O2 owners with experience in O2 boards:
one of the infamous problems the O2 has involves the machine "frying" when the board/backplane is removed while the machine is plugged in.
i've never seen an electrical explanation of which components fail when this happens, and if the machine can be resuscitated by replacing specified SMD components on the logic board
i picked up a dead O2 a few years ago, which *seems* to exhibit the classic signs of pulled-board syndrome. (fan blips once on power toggle, doesn't spin fully, and machine never makes it to POST). rather than seeing this turned into e-waste or spare parts, i'd like to rebuild it.
Yesterday I was invited to a special demonstration of the GIER computer, the first transistorised computer in Denmark from 1962, at the Dansk Datahistorisk Forening.
The machine is restored to working condition (unfortunately the console typewriter is broken and replaced by a Raspberry Pi) and I was allowed to operate the GIER - it already had an OS and an Algol compiler - and the paper tape reader.
What a great experience - thanks a lot to everyone involved!
I remember wishing I could upgrade to 2400 bps, and I remember thinking it would be really neat to have a hard drive for my computer. In a #scifi novel I wrote in my teens, a floppy drive that handled multiple disks was an advanced technology.
"Tell me you're old without telling me you're old...."
In these days of hundred-gigabyte-and-more monster games, it can be nice to stop and remember what a human can do with assembly language and very, very little storage space. In this case, only 3 KB…Tyler August (Hackaday)
Total Replay v6.1 is out. It features 519 Apple II games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image. This version primarily fixes several crashes discovered by our new automated testing framework.
archive.org/details/TotalRepla…
Code & changelog: github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releas…
No LLMs. We tested every game, we squashed every bug, we sweated every pixel, for 7 years.
Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, @Roughana, Frank M, and everyone else who contributed.
100s of games at your fingertips, as long as your fingertips are on an Apple ][DownloadDownload Total Replay (version 6.0.1, released 2026-06-05, 32 MB disk...Internet Archive
Hey #retrocomputing lovelies,
Are YOU going to be at #vcfmidwest #vcfmw2026?
You should come check out my talk on SUNDAY AFTERNOON! I'll be talking about the Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net!
If you suddenly find yourself in a conversation with a 3D artist, and you want to seem knowledgeable, just pseudo-casually throw the Utah teapot into the discussion… 🙂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_tea…
#3D #RetroComputing #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #computing #IT #1970s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #design
