On The Royal Game of Ur, the link cable nearly broke me. It was by far the hardest feature of that project, burning through most of $50 in API...

A look at how one of the oldest open source projects grew up.

A symbol of freedom standing atop the United States Capitol seems like the perfect representation of American A computer sound effect sparked one of the funniest stories in tech history. […]…

Microsoft officially requires UEFI, Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and a supported processor for Windows 11. A hardware enthusiast apparently looked at this list and decided to treat almost every individual…

Unix Universe, the first of four portraits of the Unix family, one branch per Monday. On the last day of 2025 a certified Unix died: HP-UX 11i v3 reached end of support on 31 December, its Open Group…

This caught my eye, a Chemcraft Lionel Porter rocket from Hagerstown, lifting off using kitchen chemistry! I never had anything like this. You?

Inside DMA Design with Brian Watson The post The Man Who Made Lemmings Work On Atari ST: DMA Design’s Brian Watson – The Retro Hour EP537 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.

WoodStock+ by Albie Wong released in 1997

Woody by Masashi Ichikawa released in 1999

There are games that disappear quietly, not because they failed, but because the platforms they lived on moved too quickly. Dark Lands is one of those titles. First remembered by…

There is a familiar version of the Amiga story. It is the one filled with bouncing balls, sampled drums, scrolling game maps, ray-traced logos and teenagers learning how far they…

If it's not one thing, it's another..., EPROM reading, Update?

I n the series "other distracting activities during the heatwave," I looked into the very simple development by a "local guy"—that is, a Frenchman—who created a small computer based on the 6502…

The Space Shuttle's five 1 general-purpose computers played a critical role in each flight: controlling the engines, monitoring thousands of sensors, displaying data to the astronauts, and navigating…

Cepceros Podcast is a podcast in Spanish that started in 2018 and that follows a simple but effective formula: the host has a chat with a different guest every week in which they discuss two Amstrad…

kremlin:i think i caught a younger teenager opening DLL files in notepad and studying it. the kids are alright

MSXdev Ends with a Bang: Tom Martin Unveils ‘Isa Brave: Underworld Keys’. The marathon MSXdev competition has officially reached its closing stages, and it’s going out on a high note. The 50th and…

Well this is incredible news, as the highly anticipated Metro Siege Kickstarter campaign has successfully smashed its initial funding goal, proving that the appetite for classic side-scrolling…

[Nicked from a later comment to the previous one.] Other OSes I've used with no CLI -- Psion EPOC 16 (x86, Series 3); EPOC 32 (Arm, Series 5); Symbian; PalmOS; NewtonOS; and on the desktop,…

Introduction A Late Nineties PC Assessing the Damage Installing a Video Card and Keyboard Locked CPU Fan Replace the BIOS Backup Battery Replacing the Motherboard Capacitors Replacing the Spinning…

Yesterday’s post featured a Hymek diesel hydraulic loco. It’s a pretty ancient Triang Hornby model I picked up on eBay a good 25 or so years ago way before the far newer incarnation from Heljan. But…

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USING ACTIVE FET PROBE TO WATCH SIGNAL DURING FAILURE I had been plagued by the inability to watch what happens when the sporadic failure occurs since the oscilloscope probe and the logic analyzer…

Sixty years ago, ARRL Technical Editor Doug DeMaw, W1CER (later W1FB) had a transistor radio that resisted all of his attempts to fix an intermittent problem somewhere in the RF or IF sections.…

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I started programming on calculators in the late 70s. Always fascinated with the HP-41 that came out in the 80s. Did a huge number of projects on that beauty, including lots of Assembly programming.…

My entry for the newschool intro for NOVA2026

Back in the day when Principia originally released for Windows in 2014, the game would run on versions as far back as Windows XP. Given that Principia 1.4 was released while Windows XP still had…

In 1998, Thomas Whitaker opens a box of MSDN CDs like it’s Christmas and builds a shiny VB6 front end for his COBOL payroll engine.

One keyboard bug three decades in the making. (New version of an essay originally posted in February 2015. 1,800 words.)

Great Eastern Railway 1899 4 Wheel Brake Third 853 (BRONZE) The exterior of the vehicle has now been completed with final lettering and varnish applied. We are now on the home straight with polishing…

Ralf Hornig, Tobias Weltner, Jens Trapp: Commodore 128 Tips &#38; Tricks D&#252;sseldorf: Data Becker, 1986. ISBN 3-89011-097-5. (450 pages, 40 MB) Danke an Dirk Wagner f&#252;r die Bereitstellung…

This rare Treasure Hunter G interview originally appeared in Square's official strategy guide published in 1996 and covers the team's inspirations and character design. The post Treasure Hunter G –…

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum has rolled out their second striking, one-off PCC livery in as many years, this time in honor of the semiquincentennial. As shown above, Port Authority Transit 1799 ,…

(This post is part of a series on the subject of my hobby project, which is recreating the C source code for the 1989 game F-15 Strike Eagle II by reverse engineering the original binaries.)

Two years after the last Synthesised event , I was back again with a revised History of PC Audio exhibit. The hardware is largely the same as before, but with a new hard drive and a new graphics…

Opus 3: Henry VI, Part 2

In this part of the series we look at how Atari St and Amiga handles ASCII text and we create a hard-coded dungeon in C. The post ASCII Dungeon Tiles on Amiga and Atari ST (C Programming) appeared…

Nine days after the Commodore Callback 8020 landed with a thud, a $100 price cut appeared — fast on the heels of a CEO letter that didn't exactly land softly either. I've seen companies "listen to…

AmiBlitz 3.13.0b adds a new memory-pooling system for older Amiga OS setups, plus IDE, library, and documentation updates. The post AmiBlitz Memory Pooling Arrives in Version 3.13.0b appeared first…

Back in April we looked at Sam &#038; Max Hit the Road, the first game featuring Steve Purcell's crime fighting comic strip duo. Tasked with finding an escaped bigfoot from the circus, Sam &#038; Max…

Apple wasn't alone in creating a beloved visual programming environment only to yank it away at the height of its popularity.

[Nicked from a Lobsters comment...]Classic MacOS was for many of us the real MacOS. OS X is NeXTstep given a facelift to look a bit like a Mac, but it's Unix, and you can tell. It's a pretty Unix but…

A huge digest update to the Commodore 64 archive this month with some major recoveries for you that you may have missed. 1) Arcade Wizzard (U.S. Gold) found at last! 2) Full Void game recovered and…

In this episode I talk about the Commodore phone (again), the PolyGame Master (again), the weather, Richard Garriott acquiring the copyright to Ultima from EA, the Steam Machine finally launching,…

Cartoons from three decades of Saturday Review on the topic of computers and robots were selected to present changing attitudes toward the technology. This review gives us the 1946 image at the top.…

CHECKED OUT THE CIRCUIT BOARDS IN THE DRIVE The drive has six logic boards inside (plus a power PCB and a backplane). By examining them I could look to see what options are installed on the drive -…

Seventy five years ago this month, the June 1951 issue of the British publication Radio Constructor carried this idea for fabricating a switch that would turn a circuit on when the lid was opened. It…

I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung with a good 4 weeks of battery life. One thing I wanted to do is to create a custom watchface for my…

SheepShaver boots Mac OS 9 with a native JIT. Getting it on Apple Silicon? That took work. Full native 9.2? Even harder.