NotesI 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.EmbedUnfurl
NotesItâs October 2024, and Retro Challenge RC2024/10 has started.
Iâm looking at interfacing rotary encoders with the RC2014 computer this year.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesI 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 EmbedUnfurl
NotesWhy load your 8bit things via the convenience of Cassette, Disk or Cartridge when you can load things via YouTube video? Because itâs horribly slow thatâs why! But it is rather cool! And if like me youâve 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! đFeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesHere 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. Unfurl
NotesIt started on Wednesday with a simple thread prompt from redditor DorikoBac: âCan we do the thing people do when fictional history is made and pretend that the games from UFO 50 were our childhood games?â DorikoBac, too young to have owned an LX in the â80s, imagined discovering UFO Soft via emulators in the mid-2010s.FeedUnfurl
NotesToday, 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. Unfurl
NotesHighlight: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. Â 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!Unfurl
NotesItâs 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.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesMy original vision for this article was to cover the development of computer art from the 50âs to the 90âs, but it turns out thereâs an abundance of things without even getting half way through that era. So in this article weâll look at how Lovelaceâs ideas for creativity with a computer first came to life in the 50âs and 60âs, and Iâll cover later decades in future articles. FeedUnfurl
NotesFor 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.FeedUnfurl
NotesSimply hop on Xibalba BBS and let me (NuSkooler) know youâd like to join in. Youâll get an @YourName@Xibalba.l33t.codes Fediverse address with the ability to both post and read public and private messages.FeedUnfurl
NotesBBC 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.Unfurl
NotesSend 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 programâs output!FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesSend 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 programâs output!FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesSend 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 programâs output!FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesItâs not the most beautiful ANSI art, but it is something that someone made for me and Iâve always been a little bummed that I canât look at it in one of the many ANSI viewers (or DOS emulators) that exist today.
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NotesRecently I pickup a few Macintosh Plus systems, so Iâve decided to play around with the FloppyEMUâs 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.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesI have attempted to assemble a set of CSS effects to replicate this look mainly by adding three things: screen-door effect, flicker, and color separationFeedUnfurl
NotesSomething Iâve wanted to do for several years is to create a cross-platform 5.25â floppy, one that could be used on two different incompatible computer systems.Unfurl
NotesSince 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.Unfurl
NotesThe 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 â the Pi Zero â but itâs small and neat within the RC2014 footprint]
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NotesSam 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. Unfurl
NotesMaking 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.Unfurl
NotesSam 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. Unfurl
NotesWhile 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.Unfurl
NotesFLIP 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 themFeedUnfurl
NotesThe 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.FeedUnfurl
NotesBASIC wasnât designed to change the world. âWe were thinking only of Dartmouth,â says Kurtz, its surviving co-creator. (Kemeny died in 1992.) âWe needed a language that could be âtaughtâ to virtually all students (and faculty) without their having to take a course.âUnfurl
NotesHeres 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.Unfurl
NotesWinnipeg-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.FeedEmbedUnfurl