#retrocomputing

Ruffle: Stable Releases, API, Text... and Everything Else https://lobste.rs/s/zqiizd #games #retrocomputing #rust https://ruffle.rs/blog/2026/11/04/stable-releases-and-everything-else

35 years ago, my dad chose an Intel 80386 over a typewriter – and sparked a lifelong obsession. With 1 MB RAM, a 40 MB hard drive, and a color CRT monitor, I was completely hooked. Within weeks, I had figured out COM1 vs. LPT1 and was obsessively tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys for expanded memory. While friends played on C64s and Ataris, this was my true beginning in tech. #RetroComputing #DOS #Intel386 #VintageTech #Memories

I'd like to introduce @v4siliy@fosstodon.org, who's just joined Fosstodon! I know Vasiliy personally, and he's one of those genuinely intelligent people who always have something interesting up their sleeve. And here's a little spoiler: he might have some fascinating projects involving retro devices to share soon! 👀 If you're into retro tech, give him a follow. I have a feeling it'll be worth it! 😉 #RetroComputing #RetroTech #Introduction

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? via @fanf@mendeddrum.org https://lobste.rs/s/1gndxr #games #retrocomputing https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026/algorithmic-improvements-chess.html

Socketwench makes videos about electronics, 3D printing, retro computing and related topics. You can follow at: ➡️ @socketwench@makertube.net (Don't worry if the account looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow and the videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.) You can also follow her non-video account at @socketwench@masto.hackers.town#FeaturedPeerTube #Electronics #RetroComputing #3DPrinting #PeerTube

"Finally, pity the poor Macintosh workers at Apple. In the heyday, one benefit for the Mac team was company paid-for massages at your workstation. They were called 'stress reduction treatments.' But with a little pain in the muscle of Macintosh sales, Steve says, 'No more back rubs.'" #apple #retrocomputing

📌 #Introduction Developer of 34 years for #SAMCoupe #computer - #hardware, #software, #gamedev and #magazine. Plus #Retrocomputing hardware for #RC2014, #ZXSpectrum, #MicroBeast, #Soundchip, #Electronics. St. Andrews graduate. Award winning industrial embedded designer. ➡️ SAM Coupe 🌐 https://www.samcoupe.com ⭐️ Quazar Surround soundcard - new edition. ⭐️ VIC-20 Cartridge Interface ⭐️ SAM Revival 9 revamp (with Manic Miner) 🔹 SAM Revival 11 revamp 🔹 SAM Revival issue 26 🔹 Mechanical Keyboard 🔹 Trinity Ethernet Interface v1.2 (with SD / SDHC card mass storage) ➡️ RC2014 / RCbus Compatibles / Microbeast / SC / Other 🌐 https://2014.samcoupe.com 🌟 ZX True Tone v2.0 (ZXTT) 🌟 MicroBeast 3 Way Expansion Card ⭐️ SAA1099P Soundchip Interface ⭐️ SID Soundchip Interface V1.3 🔹 Graphic OLED Interface ➡️ ZX Spectrum 🌐 https://zx.samcoupe.com ⭐️ ZX 2 Way Expansion Interface 🔹 ZX-RC2014 Bus Interface 🔹 Interface 2 style Flash Cart 🔹 ROM cart int. Full links, eBay, etc... 🌐 https://linktr.ee/quazarsamcoupe

Hi infosec.exchange 👋 #introduction I'm Seven. In the early 2000s I was writing AIM "progs" in VB6: punters, clone loaders, bots. Learned security by poking at AOL's protocols before most of the rules existed. These days: C#, PHP, web security and AI tooling. I'll be posting about web security, old-school exploits vs. modern defenses, and internet history. Archive: https://sevlegend.com Code: https://github.com/seven305/aim-progs-archive #infosec #websecurity #appsec #retrocomputing

Don't summon the dark forces—just run NetBSD! Portable, clean, and reliable enough to wake the dead (or at least that 20-year-old ThinkPad in your closet). 💻🚩 Happy Halloween to all the BSD daemons out there! 😈🎃 What’s the weirdest hardware you’ve resurrected with NetBSD? 🧙‍♂️ #NetBSD #Unix #Halloween #RetroComputing #OpenSource #RunBSD #Linux #noai #nollm #noslop

It's time for a retrocomputing and small web revival. And I mean hardware, software, the Internet. All of it. I love my fiber Internet connection but would gladly give it up to go back to when computing was actually fun and we didn't have to worry about what we're worrying about in today's world. Yes, I'm old, but I've never been more serious. #retroComputing #smallWeb

Infinite Mac: BeOS https://lobste.rs/s/fskctn #retrocomputing https://blog.persistent.info/2026/10/infinite-mac-beos.html

Sylphide Operating System: a FreeRTOS-based OS for MCU-based computers https://lobste.rs/s/vhnaoy #retrocomputing https://projects.freehackers.org/sylphide-os/

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii via @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt https://lobste.rs/s/siebde #retrocomputing #reversing https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/

I have been seeing an increase in followers across multiple platforms, welcome! Don’t forget to check out my YouTube Channel too! 📺 @RetroTechorDie@www.youtube.com #RetroTech #RetroComputing

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive. #Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

Am I the first person ever to run a Bourne shell on a Commodore 64 I wonder. A 1MHz 6502 sucks at disk I/O, sucks at copying memory and sucks at running C code, especially when the C code has to be optimized for space not speed. But it works. I have plans for REU support which I think will make it much much faster assuming i can get away with a few tricks and the timing doesn't break anything. #fuzix #commodore #c64 #retrocomputing #8bit

(VCF Midwest 2026) Building a Living 90s Internet for Vintage Computers by @CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems https://lobste.rs/s/uhfzlv #video #retrocomputing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZfJ-sulqQs

I like finding and fixing bugs in 52-year-old software, especially when all later versions retain the bug. #unix #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Whew! I just finished porting 2,852 lines of PDP-11 assembly to C by hand over the past week! This is for form/fed, a form letter editor and generator with template substitutions, introduced in 1971. It's the largest UNIX utility that was never ported to C, and has since been forgotten. 1/6 #unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #reverseengineering

Most notably, the oldest list of UNIX licensees was produced from a form letter database. Ken Thompson used form/fed to simplify mailing to early users: rather than hand- or typewriting messages, this fancy tool would substitute each recipient and the date. In 1975, when UNIX News was starting up, he used this form letter database to dump the list of contacts that served as the initial subscriber list. The circumstances of the UNIX V4 tape found at the University of Utah are still somewhat unclear, as it was apparently not used for research and only sparse traces of its acquisition survived. But some letters to Martin Newell are in that form letter database and I hope to recover more information through forensic analysis. 2/6 #unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing