Dead Amstrad Becomes Something New - When you run into old hardware you cannot restore, what do you do? Toss it? Sell i... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/dead-amstrad-becomes-something-new/ #retrocomputing #retrocomputer #classichacks #sleeperpc #amstrad #casemod #minipc #pccase

Anyone has a working copy of Quik the Thunder Rabbit for #Amiga?

I tried all the copies I could find, but none of them load in a real machine with Gotek or written back to floppies. They all get stuck on the loading screen of the first level, while spinning through tracks like crazy. #Commodore #RetroComputing #Retrogaming.

The Newton Glossary passed another milestone this week … the number of entries just flipped over the 1,800 mark.

That’s a lot of egg freckles.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://newtonglossary.com/changes

Having been a "demoscener" (± 1000 years ago), I've got a soft spot for retro demo effects. Someone recreated a number of them in JavaScript and Canvas:

https://jdfio.com/pages-output/demos/x-mode/

A question for the #retrocomputing #reverseengineering crowd: Is there any prior work on low-level details of how the 8051 CPU core functions? Down to gate/transistor level.

Bringing an Obscure Apple Operating System to Modern Hardware - During Apple’s late-90s struggles with profitability, it made a few overtures towa... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/16/bringing-an-obscure-apple-operating-system-to-modern-hardware/ #retrocomputing #rhapsodyos #apple #intel #unix

A new overhaul mod has just been released for the 1990 DOS flight sim classic Wing Commander.

I've no idea how these manuals survived in our loft so long. But some of the contents are surprising. /1

#AtariST and #Atari 8-bit users, here is a playlist of videos on PeerTube about these computers:

https://fedi.video/w/p/u7E2A1QSFkQETNkVAhS6DH

- If you're on a phone, scroll first two video titles at the bottom to see rest of the playlist.

- If you're on a computer, choose a video from the playlist on the right.

- If you're watching embedded, click or to see next or previous videos in the playlist.

cc @atarist

Rubber feet on your Amiga turned to goo? We’ve got you covered. These OEM replacements are the exact same 3M rubber feet used by Commodore on the A500, A600, and A1200. Perfect fit. No compromises.
Grab a set now: https://retrorewind.ca/amiga-rubber-feet
#Amiga #RetroComputing #Commodore

APOD, the Astronomy Picture of the Day website, is 30 years old today. It was one of the first sites I visited and not only is it still online, it looks exactly as it did back then. APOD is a valuable science resource and a time capsule of the earliest web design.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250616.html

I got uploading to a SRAM working from an Arduino Nano! I have also tested properly resetting the 68008 from the Arduino and changing the pins to pull up. I should probably throw together a tiny bootloader and put a 512K SRAM on instead, and I think perhaps a SPLD or CPLD might replace the mess near the RAM more elegantly - a couple of daisy chained ATF22V10s might work well! It all seems stable at ~6Mhz despite being on a breadboard.

I was walking back from the mall and figured it couldn’t hurt to drop in to HARD OFF on the way back.

Walking through the Junk PC aisle, I had a double-take, what is that purple beauty??

A SiliconGraphics O2? In MY rural Japanese city? How did that get here? At $60 I could not leave it there!

Lugging it home in the heat on the tram and in the rain was a slog but I made it safely back!

The screen resolution of the MB Microvision was 16x16, 1bpp. Have there been systems with a lower resolution than that?