Progress! Ignore the camera pretending it has a heartbeat as it tries to decide what to focus on. Still nothing on the CGA, but I feel a lot better hearing that tone after @emily pointed out that I have to jumper the internal speaker on.

SPARCstation SLC - the 1990 iMac

https://apfelklassik.de/blogartikel.html?ID=32

Tada~

I no longer need to worry about this 8 bit hardware for some time in the future. Everything tested to be working properly, including all the PCBs and stuff.

I'll actually connect those displays when I eventually start to display things from it.

That's better, isn't it?

#netbsd #zaurus #pda #NetBSD_10_1
#retrocomputing

Wow. I upgraded Windows and now Microsoft is shoving ads on my desktop.

Fuck this, I'm switching to BeOS.

OK sheesh, THIS was a super-sweet spot in my (admittedly ancient) computing platform history: DESQView and QEMM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

I mistakenly remembered it as OS/2, which I did run around that time (88, 89, 90) but no, it was desqview.

I'm fine without a mouse, it turns out. I've been writing a bunch of CP/M sofware and old workflows came back (hint: its barbaric, I don't fully recommend it).

Gonna put a web page up about the CP/M thing soon. Got my version 2 boards from JLCPCB, awaiting a delayed delivery from Digikey.

Working on my Micro 8088 and got the floppy controller done! But I forgot the 3.5" floppy uses a different power connector size (feels like a 1993 rookie mistake.) So waiting on an adapter. In the mean team, switched to my VGA board for some fun.

#Retrocomputing #Windows #Microsoft #vintagecomputing #Micro8088 #8088 #diy #soldering

Here's a link to a phlog post where i wrote about Choose Your Own Adventure and linked to a list of gamebooks available for download from archive.org. In this post i made a connection to Interactive Fiction and ifarchive.org.

https://gopher.zcrayfish.soy/gopherproxy.sh?q=gopher://tilde.pink/1/%7ebencollver/log/2025-01-20-choose-your-own-adventure-gamebooks/

So, here's my actually-planned-for-this-year #MARCHintosh project. Attached is a photo of four very dusty containers full of floppy disks. These are the actual disks from my childhood IIfx!

Most of these disks aren't original. The originals lived at Dad's workplace. He would periodically bring home software from work, make a copy of the disks, and return the originals to work. These were, I'm told, the "off-site backups", in case there was a fire at the workplace or something like that. But we also had all this software installed on the family IIfx so Dad could read any files that he brought home from work with him.

Of course, we also bought our own software for the home, and those are mixed in with these disks as well. And that stack of CD-ROMs in the top left are my MacAddict cover disks - those are already archived.

Anyway, because these are just consumer-grade diskettes, they degrade quicker than the professionally-manufactured original ones. I've already lost a few, so I want to get these archived! And of course, anything that doesn't already exist on the Garden will be uploaded there and shared on #GlobalTalk as well.

(expect this to be a long-ass foone-style thread with lots of updates over several days)

M-NET the oldest running Public Access UNIX has arrived! The original Altos ACS68000 will be on display next weekend at the Interim Computer Festival. M-NET is now under SDF.org Vintage Systems care. Thanks jfk, cross and tod! #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #community #bbs

Starting Windows 3.1 in 1994

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