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Wintermute_BBS »
@Wintermute_BBS@oldbytes.space

Here are the latest news regading my for and .

The video below shows the current state of affairs, and I've just added some limited to the game - however the recording below did not capture the beepy beeps for some reason.

There is one last tweak I need to add in terms of gameplay but the final release is "coming soon" ™️ 😏





Alt...A video demonstrating "TMSnake" - a "Snake" game clone for RC2014 homebrew computers. Yellow brick walls frame the otherwise black screen where a green snake is comping red stawberries one by one, growing longer and faster as the score (which is displayed on the top of the screen) rises.

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    root42 »
    @root42@chaos.social

    The IDC and D-SUB plugs arrived. I re-crimped the cables and... we have a fully working diag harness!

    C64 Diag ROM showing all OK tests on a CRT screen.

    Alt...C64 Diag ROM showing all OK tests on a CRT screen.

    An opened C64 breadbin with a 1983 Assy 250407 mainboard and attached diagnostic harness with cabling going to all ports.

    Alt...An opened C64 breadbin with a 1983 Assy 250407 mainboard and attached diagnostic harness with cabling going to all ports.

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      Paolo Amoroso »
      @amoroso@fosstodon.org

      I hear you like dialogs and property sheets, so here goes. This is the TEdit rich text editor of Medley Interlisp with an open document and the free menus (i.e. dialogs) for controlling text attributes, paragraph formatting, page layout, index and TOC.

      Screenshot of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and some windows with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The main window shows a document open in a word processor. Above the main window, one above the other, are 4 dialog boxes for controlling various properties of the formatting and layout of the document.

      Alt...Screenshot of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and some windows with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The main window shows a document open in a word processor. Above the main window, one above the other, are 4 dialog boxes for controlling various properties of the formatting and layout of the document.

        Wintermute_BBS »
        @Wintermute_BBS@oldbytes.space

        Just built a 4-port for the so I can finally get rid of my current breadboard setup which has been sitting on my desk for far too long, causing even more of a mess. Turned out nice, I think ...

        Closeup shot of the front side of the DIY I2C bus expander for the Mynor My4TH computer

        Alt...Closeup shot of the front side of the DIY I2C bus expander for the Mynor My4TH computer

        Closeup shot of the back side of the DIY I2C bus expander for the Mynor My4TH computer showing the soldering work

        Alt...Closeup shot of the back side of the DIY I2C bus expander for the Mynor My4TH computer showing the soldering work

        Shot of the Mynor My4TH computer with the DIY I2C bus expander and three of the four expansion slots being used to set up a thermometer and accompanying display

        Alt...Shot of the Mynor My4TH computer with the DIY I2C bus expander and three of the four expansion slots being used to set up a thermometer and accompanying display

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          DesertFOX »
          @dfx@techhub.social

          Another bad retro diskette! At first glance, this one seemed pretty much gone. None of my disk imaging tools were able to read it. Windows Explorer just crashed.

          Only a low level KryoFlux dump managed to uncover the physical cause behind this: A corrupt root directory beyond any chance of repair. Luckily, both the file allocation tables as well as most of the data clusters were still in good shape. I used a hex editor to manually recover all the files from the valid tracks. It worked!

          I guess these games are nothing special, but it still made me happy to pull usable data and working files from such a destroyed file system!

          Collection of old DOS games on a 1.44MB floppy disk.

          Alt...Collection of old DOS games on a 1.44MB floppy disk.

          KryoFlux and DiskImageTool looking at this damaged floppy disk.

          Alt...KryoFlux and DiskImageTool looking at this damaged floppy disk.

          Manually decoding this disk's file allocation tables.

          Alt...Manually decoding this disk's file allocation tables.

          Great success! It works!

          Alt...Great success! It works!

            Paolo Amoroso »
            @amoroso@fosstodon.org

            How screen shots were done in the good old days. Those rigs for mating film cameras to computer screens were obscenely expensive.

            worldcadaccess.com/blog/2025/0

              Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 »
              @mdhughes@appdot.net

              Amusing sites on the World Wide Web:
              twitch.tv/oldtimeycomputershow

                Paolo Amoroso »
                @amoroso@fosstodon.org

                A couple of decades ago, at the dawn of the mobile age, I installed Opera Mini on my Nokia 6151 phone. It seemed like a great app but I never actually used it as I couldn't justify an expensive data plan.

                Matyáš Racek reminishes on the design decisions and features that made Opera Mini so good.

                yoyo-code.com/love-letter-to-o

                  Wintermute_BBS »
                  @Wintermute_BBS@oldbytes.space

                  Good news from the that I am trying to get back to life:

                  having replaced the proprietary chip with a modern FPGA based replacement, the system now comes up again - wooohooo !! 🥳

                  I've also replaced the old keyboard membrane which had brittled to oblivion with a new one, however only a fraction of the keys are working. Maybe I need to replace the keyboard "big" ribbon cable connector as well (I already replaced the "small" one).

                  But things are going into the right dircetion ...

                  EDIT: I've replaced the "big" / "wide" keyboard connector with a new one and now all keys are working. More footage later, gotta go now to get cat food.






                  Photo of the mainboard of the argentinian ZX Spectrum plus clone "CZ Spectrum plus". The original ZX8401 chip has been replaced by a modern FPGA variant. As a result, the machine now shows its spanish startup message, as is expected.

                  Alt...Photo of the mainboard of the argentinian ZX Spectrum plus clone "CZ Spectrum plus". The original ZX8401 chip has been replaced by a modern FPGA variant. As a result, the machine now shows its spanish startup message, as is expected.

                    Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 »
                    @mdhughes@appdot.net

                    NEVER FORGET.

                    I had a couple of these things, they were great for desktop floppy storage.

                    For 3.5" I went to little 10-disk sleeves that folded closed, very portable and I used less disks.

                    %a% Introducing the most logical place to store And, it's portable. Because the lid doubles Elephant Memory Systems® (or lesser brands asa carrynz; handle so your Elephant Memory of J)isksk The Trunk. Systems® disks can go anywhere you do. With its alphabetized library index, you can There’s a model for 5¥4” and 8" floppies, as file or retrieve up to 60 disks, instantly. well as a cassette-and-game file and a special The Trunk is made of durable molded Atari® version. plastic with a hinged, one-piece lid, to keep Soif you're looking for the best disk storage disks safe from dust, dirt, and other detriments ~systemon the market. .. which disks despise. The Trunk is an open-and-shut case. Elephant Memory Systems® Disks A full line of top-quality floppies, in virtually every 5% and & model, for compatibility with virtually every computer on the market. Guaranteed to meet or exceed every industry standard, certified 100% error-free and problem-free, and to maintain its quality for at least 12 million passes for over a life-time of heavy-duty use. Marketed exclustvely by Leading Edge Products, Inc., 225 Tummpike Street, Canton, Massachusetts 02021. Call: toll-free 1-800-343-6833: or in Massachusetts call collect (617) 828-8150. Telex 951624. CIRCLE 193 ON READER SERVICE CARD J

                    Alt...%a% Introducing the most logical place to store And, it's portable. Because the lid doubles Elephant Memory Systems® (or lesser brands asa carrynz; handle so your Elephant Memory of J)isksk The Trunk. Systems® disks can go anywhere you do. With its alphabetized library index, you can There’s a model for 5¥4” and 8" floppies, as file or retrieve up to 60 disks, instantly. well as a cassette-and-game file and a special The Trunk is made of durable molded Atari® version. plastic with a hinged, one-piece lid, to keep Soif you're looking for the best disk storage disks safe from dust, dirt, and other detriments ~systemon the market. .. which disks despise. The Trunk is an open-and-shut case. Elephant Memory Systems® Disks A full line of top-quality floppies, in virtually every 5% and & model, for compatibility with virtually every computer on the market. Guaranteed to meet or exceed every industry standard, certified 100% error-free and problem-free, and to maintain its quality for at least 12 million passes for over a life-time of heavy-duty use. Marketed exclustvely by Leading Edge Products, Inc., 225 Tummpike Street, Canton, Massachusetts 02021. Call: toll-free 1-800-343-6833: or in Massachusetts call collect (617) 828-8150. Telex 951624. CIRCLE 193 ON READER SERVICE CARD J

                      tom jennings »
                      @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org

                      OK I'm back to old habits -- having re-discovered old habits weren't completely stupid.

                      Leor Zolman's BDS C compiler it is. It's got a lot of language cheats and shortcomings, but it's all scaled appropriately for small machines.

                      It's binary output is HALF the size of Aztec C's, which is fairly compliant (to a very old standard). I need code, not compliance.

                      WordStar has many shortcomings, I could not remember how minimal it is, but it is rock solid and that matters.

                      I'd like to find a copy of PMATE for CP/M (plenty around for DOS)

                      Leor seems like a great guy.

                      bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html

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                        vga256 »
                        @vga256@dialup.cafe

                        TIL the original Interplay productions logo was supposed to spell IP

                        never once noticed that in 30 years

                        A screenshot of Brian Fargo saying, Remember this old Interplay logo. We thought we were so clever turning the IP into a guy at a keyboard. Below: a modern logo showing a simplified geometric character sitting at a computer desk and desktop computer.

                        Alt...A screenshot of Brian Fargo saying, Remember this old Interplay logo. We thought we were so clever turning the IP into a guy at a keyboard. Below: a modern logo showing a simplified geometric character sitting at a computer desk and desktop computer.

                          Paolo Amoroso »
                          @amoroso@fosstodon.org

                          Dave Minter shared his experience in the 1990s with the precursors of modern email, discussion boards, instant messaging, and social systems. He told his story as a student in a DEC-centric world at a UK university linked to JANET and later to the Internet.

                          paperstack.com/an_early_social

                            Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 »
                            @mdhughes@appdot.net

                            I can't find a good video of HotJava. There's a history of Java talk:
                            youtube.com/watch?v=Qc36yF8Mo-

                            I WANT this TED talk, but I can't find video?

                            But at least you can read THE BEST ISSUE OF WIRED* for this as a secondary story:

                            archive.org/details/wired-maga

                            * (Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth, Mother Board" article, go read it now.)

                            1st Public Demo TED 6 - Monterey February 22nd-25th 1995

                            Alt...1st Public Demo TED 6 - Monterey February 22nd-25th 1995

                              Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄 »
                              @mdhughes@appdot.net

                              So I'm poking around trying to find a runnable version of Self for classic Mac, easiest to emulate. No such luck yet.

                              BUT! I found Peter van der Linden's Just Java CDROM & books on Archive! These things were great. Really solid tutorials, for what was then a tolerable language (it got worse, my taste got better, but eh, it was fine at the time).

                              Fun 1st Ed:
                              archive.org/details/justjava00

                              Serious 2nd Ed:
                              archive.org/details/justjava12

                              CD-ROM:
                              archive.org/details/just-java-

                              engine is mounted backwards so the prop. shaft comes out where the propeller used to go. The vehicle was commissioned by an eccentric and rich used-car dealer, and must be driven gingerly at all times. It develops around 1000 bhp (a Corvette has about 20% of this), but heavy-footedness on the accelerator pedal could set the clutch on fire, or screw the mainshaft right out of the gearbox. The result of this “throw in everything good” design is an impractical and nearly undriveable vehicle. The question then is, “Is Java like this?” The answer is a resounding “No!” For one thing, Java wasn’t commissioned on the whim of an eccentric. Rather it was a considered approach designed by a top engineer, trying to solve practical problems. Aspects of Java have been borrowed from other languages, but they have been carefully integrated into the whole. Practicality is the hallmark throughout. Design decisions have been made with good judgment and thoughtfulness. Java benefited greatly from the C++ experience—seeing what was needed, what worked, and what should be discarded. ! There is a picture of this vehicle in the images directory on the CD that comes with this book. The Merlin engine, used in the Spitfire and the P51, was also built by Rolls-Royce. In fact, the Merlin engine was the last project Henry Royce completed before his death.

                              Alt...engine is mounted backwards so the prop. shaft comes out where the propeller used to go. The vehicle was commissioned by an eccentric and rich used-car dealer, and must be driven gingerly at all times. It develops around 1000 bhp (a Corvette has about 20% of this), but heavy-footedness on the accelerator pedal could set the clutch on fire, or screw the mainshaft right out of the gearbox. The result of this “throw in everything good” design is an impractical and nearly undriveable vehicle. The question then is, “Is Java like this?” The answer is a resounding “No!” For one thing, Java wasn’t commissioned on the whim of an eccentric. Rather it was a considered approach designed by a top engineer, trying to solve practical problems. Aspects of Java have been borrowed from other languages, but they have been carefully integrated into the whole. Practicality is the hallmark throughout. Design decisions have been made with good judgment and thoughtfulness. Java benefited greatly from the C++ experience—seeing what was needed, what worked, and what should be discarded. ! There is a picture of this vehicle in the images directory on the CD that comes with this book. The Merlin engine, used in the Spitfire and the P51, was also built by Rolls-Royce. In fact, the Merlin engine was the last project Henry Royce completed before his death.

                              1. Always log your terminal off when you leave, even if you're only going to the bathroom for 5 minutes. 2. The only people who MAKE MONEY FAST on the Internet are those who manufacture routers and disk drives. 8. The net’s memory is no longer than its attention span, so if you wait a little while you're sure to see the same thing go round again. 4. Some net-kooks are noisy, some net-kooks are stupid, and some net-kooks are rude. But the net-kooks whose attention you will attract are the net-kooks who are noisy, stupid AND rude. Plus, they have nothing better to do all day. 5. Not all Usenet moderators and FAQ-compilers eventually become power-mad and insane. Some of them started out that way. 6. The net’s memory is no longer than its attention span, so if you wait a little while you're sure to see the same thing go round again. 7. If you're not sure about the facts when posting something, be louder and more insistent to compensate. … 8. There was something about the net’s memory, but the details are a little hazy right now. 9. Remember that early release of “rn” that prevented a posting unless it contained more new lines than included lines? That was actu- ally a pretty good idea. 10. How to have the last word in real life “You're right!” How to have the last word on Usenet “You're in my killfile!”

                              Alt...1. Always log your terminal off when you leave, even if you're only going to the bathroom for 5 minutes. 2. The only people who MAKE MONEY FAST on the Internet are those who manufacture routers and disk drives. 8. The net’s memory is no longer than its attention span, so if you wait a little while you're sure to see the same thing go round again. 4. Some net-kooks are noisy, some net-kooks are stupid, and some net-kooks are rude. But the net-kooks whose attention you will attract are the net-kooks who are noisy, stupid AND rude. Plus, they have nothing better to do all day. 5. Not all Usenet moderators and FAQ-compilers eventually become power-mad and insane. Some of them started out that way. 6. The net’s memory is no longer than its attention span, so if you wait a little while you're sure to see the same thing go round again. 7. If you're not sure about the facts when posting something, be louder and more insistent to compensate. … 8. There was something about the net’s memory, but the details are a little hazy right now. 9. Remember that early release of “rn” that prevented a posting unless it contained more new lines than included lines? That was actu- ally a pretty good idea. 10. How to have the last word in real life “You're right!” How to have the last word on Usenet “You're in my killfile!”

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                                Paolo Amoroso »
                                @amoroso@fosstodon.org

                                CP/M-86 for Newbies is a starter kit for CP/M-86 with everything ready to unpack and run. It bundles the PCe PC emulator (Windows only), preconfigured PCe environments for running different CP/M-86 versions including Concurrent CP/M-86 and Concurrent DOS, and other software such as the Pirx Commander file manager.

                                github.com/MarekStarobrat/Pirx

                                  Paolo Amoroso »
                                  @amoroso@fosstodon.org

                                  The Mastodon accounts of some projects that preserve, modernize, and reimagine classic operating systems and system software environments:

                                  9Front (Plan 9)
                                  @9front@mastodon.sdf.org (unofficial)
                                  @9front@brands.town (unofficial)

                                  FreeDOS (MS-DOS)
                                  @freedosproject

                                  Haiku (BeOS)
                                  @haiku

                                  Medley Interlisp (Interlisp-D)
                                  @interlisp

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