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  • cnlohr/channel3: ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface
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    Hook an antenna up to GPIO3/RX, tune your analog TV to Channel 3. Power the ESP on!
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  • Mark Moxon: "I am delighted to announce my 
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    I am delighted to announce my latest hack: Elite 3D. This is BBC Micro Elite, but in anaglyph 3D. To enjoy the third dimension, you'll need a pair of 3D specs; red-cyan is a good choice, but five different types are supported.
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  • Libi Rose Keeps Old Tech Running at the Media Archaeology Lab - IEEE Spectrum
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    Libi Rose keeps obsolete technologies running at the Media Archaeology Lab
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  • RC2024 - Part 1 - The Rotary Encoder - Robert Price
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    It’s October 2024, and Retro Challenge RC2024/10 has started. I’m looking at interfacing rotary encoders with the RC2014 computer this year.
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  • Can we do the thing people do when fictional history is made and pretend that the games from UFO 50 were our childhood games? : r/ufo50
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    I grew up in the 2000s, around the mid 2010s I discovered emulators and started playing a bunch of LX games. I remember playing some of them for hours at a time. Now the collection is out and I'm replaying them all. UFOsoft really just knew what they were doing
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  • Music | Chris Huelsbeck Productions
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    Chris Huelsbeck Productions. Arizona.
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  • Introducing Jelly-Load! – TFW8b.com
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    Why load your 8bit things via the convenience of Cassette, Disk or Cartridge when you can load things via YouTube video? Because it’s horribly slow that’s why! But it is rather cool! And if like me you’ve got a million electronic bits and bobs lying around the house, you may have enough electronic purchase left-overs to start making your own Jelly-Load interface right now! 😀
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  • A.N. Lucas's 88x31 button Collection
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    Here is a collection of more than 700 88x31 web buttons from the 1990's and 2000's, including the famous "Netscape NOW" and "Internet Explorer" buttons as well as various other buttons for websites of past and present. All were rescued from a now defunct http://harrypagerubbish.webs.com/buttons just before it disappeared without warning. These buttons are an historic example of advertising in the earlier days of the World Wide Web. Enjoy these buttons and use them to your liking.
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  • UFO 50 Reddit is roleplaying as if the LX console was real | Polygon
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    It started on Wednesday with a simple thread prompt from redditor DorikoBac: “Can we do the thing people do when fictional history is made and pretend that the games from UFO 50 were our childhood games?” DorikoBac, too young to have owned an LX in the ’80s, imagined discovering UFO Soft via emulators in the mid-2010s.
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  • Elite 40th Anniversary
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    Today, 20th September 2024, is the 40th anniversary of the day the world first experienced Elite, the 3D space trading and combat game written by Ian Bell and David Braben, first on the BBC Microcomputer in conjunction with Acornsoft. To commemorate this, I have added further sources (Apple, Atari, C64, NES, SNES (unfinished) "Elite"; and BBC "Elite II" (unfinished)) to the Elite Archive.
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  • An archive of RadioShack Catalogs (1939-2011)
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    Highlight:In the virtual corridors of RadioShackCatalogs.com, a digital archive unfolds like a time capsule, preserving the history of RadioShack from its inception in 1921.  As a venerable retailer, RadioShack had been a cornerstone of innovation for over 100 years, providing an array of cutting-edge technology products and services that spanned personal, mobile, and home technology. Flip-through every RadioShack electronics & computer catalog. These catalogs include vintage electronics, stereos, speakers, CB radios, tube radios, computers, communication equipment, electronic test equipment, gadgets, technology & more!
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  • Arcade Authorship – High Score Table Credits – The History of How We Play
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    It’s an open secret that with the advent of the high score table in arcade video games, designers would hide their signatures in lieu of being directly credited for the games themselves.
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  • Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s — Amy Goodchild
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    My original vision for this article was to cover the development of computer art from the 50’s to the 90’s, but it turns out there’s an abundance of things without even getting half way through that era. So in this article we’ll look at how Lovelace’s ideas for creativity with a computer first came to life in the 50’s and 60’s, and I’ll cover later decades in future articles.
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  • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev
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    I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research.
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  • Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH | Frederic Cambus
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    For the purpose of this article, I used two Fedora machines and installed the ckermit and lrzsz packages to handle the Kermit and ZMODEM protocols respectively. There is a qodem package as well, but it only bundles the X11 binary. I prefer to use the curses version, so I built it from source.
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  • ActivityPub Beta on Xibalba BBS
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    Simply hop on Xibalba BBS and let me (NuSkooler) know you’d like to join in. You’ll get an @YourName@Xibalba.l33t.codes Fediverse address with the ability to both post and read public and private messages.
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  • Crochet DDR mat is cute and functional - Polygon
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    Made with yarn, conductive thread, and an Arduino
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  • BBC Micro Bot - Creative Retro Coding
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    BBC Micro bot is a Twitter bot that runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator. Tweet-sized programs are written in BBC BASIC, a language created by Sophie Wilson in 1981 for the BBC Micro.
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  • PC Basic Bot – How to play with @PCBASICBot on Twitter
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    Send a tweet with a short BASIC program to @PCBASICBot and your program will run on an emulated DOS PC. The bot will tweet you back with a video your program’s output!
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  • Atari 8 Bit Bot – How to play with @Atari8BitBot on Twitter
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    Send a tweet with a short program to @Atari8BitBot and your program will run on an emulated Atari 8-bit computer. The bot will tweet you back with a video your program’s output!
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  • @AppleIIBot – How to play with @AppleIIBot on Twitter
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    Send a tweet with a short program to @AppleIIBot and your program will run on an emulated Apple II computer. The bot will tweet you back with a video your program’s output!
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  • Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot | bertrand fan
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    It’s not the most beautiful ANSI art, but it is something that someone made for me and I’ve always been a little bummed that I can’t look at it in one of the many ANSI viewers (or DOS emulators) that exist today. Let’s fix that!
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  • FloppyEMU HD20: Using a FloppyEMU emulated HD20 with my Macintosh Plus – David and Steve's Blog
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    Recently I pickup a few Macintosh Plus systems, so I’ve decided to play around with the FloppyEMU’s HD20 support with the hopes of writing some future blog posts for maxing out a Macintosh Plus. This guide will also work for the SE, Classic, Classic II, Portable, IIci, IIsi, or LC.
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  • xtrn/mrc · master · Main / Synchronet · GitLab
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    Multi Relay Chat (MRC) client for Synchronet BBS 3.17b+
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  • The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong | WIRED
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    The history of the internet is repeatedly reduced to the story of the singular Arpanet. But BBSs were just as important—if not more.
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  • Papercraft Models — Rocky Bergen
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    Construct the computer from your childhood or build an entire computer museum at home with these paper models, free to download and share.
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  • 2BitToy
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    A Gameboy Camera custom shell designed for the retro Nintendo fan who wants to dabble a little more with their Gameboy photography.
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  • Using CSS to create a CRT
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    I have attempted to assemble a set of CSS effects to replicate this look mainly by adding three things: screen-door effect, flicker, and color separation
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  • BlueSCSI
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    Today we're continuing that mission with the announcement of the BlueSCSI v2!
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  • This Clever Clock Port Adapter Marries an Amiga 1200 with a Raspberry Pi for Easy Wi-Fi Networking - Hackster.io
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    Sharing just 64kB of SRAM between an Amiga and a Raspberry Pi, this clever FPGA board provides a way to get a classic computer back online.
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  • Insentricity :: A Multi-Format Cross-Platform Floppy for 5.25" Floppy Day ::
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    Something I’ve wanted to do for several years is to create a cross-platform 5.25” floppy, one that could be used on two different incompatible computer systems.
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  • PERSEUS-8 homemade 6502 computer | Hackaday.io
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    Since this computer uses a CPU that is about 45 years old, it cannot compete at all with today's computers in terms of performance. However, I wanted the PERSEUS-8 to have functions and appearance that would remind us of concepts that today's computers has lost.
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  • Pi Zero Serial Terminal « RC2014
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    The Pi Zero Serial Terminal module allows you to plug the RC2014 in to an HDMI monitor or TV and a USB keyboard, thus use it without the reliance on another computer. [Ok, yes, you are still relying on another computer – the Pi Zero – but it’s small and neat within the RC2014 footprint]
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  • 7 | DIY Commodore WiFi modem with ESP8266 board | Robert Trebor | Flickr
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    DIY Commodore WiFi modem with ESP8266 board
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  • vnIIc
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    Desktop streaming to an Apple II with Super Serial Card
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  • SAM: Software Automatic Mouth
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    Sam is a very small Text-To-Speech (TTS) program written in C, that runs on most popular platforms. It is an adaption to C of the speech software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64 published in the year 1982 by Don't Ask Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.). It includes a Text-To-Phoneme converter called reciter and a Phoneme-To-Speech routine for the final output. It is so small that it will work also on embedded computers. On my computer it takes less than 39KB (much smaller on embedded devices as the executable-overhead is not necessary) of disk space and is a fully stand alone program.
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  • The Things We Did on the Atari ST - Guido Henkel: Guido Henkel
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    Using raster timing to switch palette per line, yow!
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  • Atari 65XE as USB keyboard
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    Making retro Atari 65XE as USB-keyboard for a modern computer. And it will leave the opportunity to use this Atari in the native mode. Arduino Leonardo is used for connect the Atari's keyboard to an USB. With an UNIX this keyboard will works without any restrictions.
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  • SAM: Software Automatic Mouth
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    Sam is a very small Text-To-Speech (TTS) program written in C, that runs on most popular platforms. It is an adaption to C of the speech software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64 published in the year 1982 by Don't Ask Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.). It includes a Text-To-Phoneme converter called reciter and a Phoneme-To-Speech routine for the final output. It is so small that it will work also on embedded computers. On my computer it takes less than 39KB (much smaller on embedded devices as the executable-overhead is not necessary) of disk space and is a fully stand alone program.
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  • Back To The Future written on Atari 8bit!? - Atari 8-Bit Computers - AtariAge Forums
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    While watching this Back To The Future (1985) Retrospective (exact timestamp) today I noticed what appears to be an XE with an Indus disk drive being used by Bob Gale, co writer for the movie.
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  • FLIP CHIP - Computer History Wiki
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    FLIP CHIP was DEC's trade name (a registered trademark for DEC) for a lengthy series of small cards used to build computers, and devices for them
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  • <Now Go Bang!> Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC)
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    The time it takes for the phosphor to become fully activated is actually longer than the pulse representing the timing to draw a single pixel (40 nanoseconds). Meaning, if we were to attempt to display just a single pixel, the phosphor on this particular spot will never reach its full activation level resulting in a fuzzy image of varying brightnesses between dimmer, thin strokes and heavier, thick strokes. So the typography has to adjust for this, by streching the pulses to double width (80 ns), at least, in order to provide an even image and legible text and to work around the shallow flanks of the screen intensification.
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  • Fifty Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal | Time
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    BASIC wasn’t designed to change the world. “We were thinking only of Dartmouth,” says Kurtz, its surviving co-creator. (Kemeny died in 1992.) “We needed a language that could be ‘taught’ to virtually all students (and faculty) without their having to take a course.”
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  • Learn Multi platform 6502 Assembly Programming... For Monsters!
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    In these tutorials we'll start from the absolute basics... and teach you to become a multiplatform 6502 monster!... Let's begin!
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  • Did You Know That Jon Pertwee Sang A Doctor Who Song In 1972? - The Retroist
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    Jon Pertwee, better known as the third Doctor from Doctor Who released a song entitled Who is the Doctor back in 1972!
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  • How To Add DOS doors to Raspberry Pi Mystic
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    This tutorial is intended for BBS sysops who wish to run DOS door games on their Raspberry Pi (or other ARM device)
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  • FreeDOS | The FreeDOS Project
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    Pi1541 is a real-time, cycle exact, Commodore 1541 disk drive emulator that can run on a Raspberry Pi 3B, 3B+ or 3A+.
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  • Make your own S-Video for your 8-bit card easily and quickly - Atari 8-Bit Computers - AtariAge Forums
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    Heres how you can make your own top quality S-Video video board for almost any Atari 8 bit. It uses few parts and would take minutes to install.
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  • Rocky Bergen's Retro Computer Papercraft – Waxy.org
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    Winnipeg-based artist and designer Rocky Bergen makes detailed papercraft of vintage computers, game systems, and electronics that you can print out, cut, and fold for yourself.
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