feditips, 8 months ago

p.s. If you're into retro computing, highly recommend following the PeerTube channel @reenthused

It publishes lots of in-depth videos about retro computers and retro consoles from all around the world, including obscure ones. You can browse all the videos at https://diode.zone/a/reenthused/videos

I featured it today over on @FediVideo

pruwyben, 8 months ago

@feditips there are also a couple of great Lemmy communities - https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/retrocomputing and https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/retronet

reconbot, 8 months ago

@feditips @reenthused @FediVideo This is sooo cool

tom_t_21, 7 months ago

@feditips Amazing

Jaredsmith723, 8 months ago

@feditips I wonder if it’s possible to make an app for windows phone

ShredderFeeder, 8 months ago

@feditips I absolutely despise that windows 95 is considered retro.

feditips, 8 months ago

@ShredderFeeder

Almost 30 years ago... 😱

boongakawunga, 8 months ago

@feditips this is so fucking cool

holly2, 8 months ago

@feditips hello how are you doing I am holly by name I am new to this social platform if you don’t mind I will like to get to know you if you don’t mind get back to me soon

leemoknows, 8 months ago

@feditips This is awesome! 👏🏼

mrbruno, 8 months ago

@feditips MVS?? I didn't even think they used that name anymore. It's had Unix services for a few decades (I worked on them!).

feditips, 8 months ago

@mrbruno

I'm just going with what it says on the app 😃

It is meant to be for retro computing people, so maybe MVS is appropriate?

mrbruno, 8 months ago

@feditips I still think of it as MVS but I'm a dinosaur too.

Plush Dinosaur GIF

harald, 8 months ago

@feditips command linux client?

feditips, 8 months ago

@harald

There's a command line client called Toot:

https://toot.bezdomni.net/

It also works as a TUI client.

(By the way, it has no connection to the smartphone apps Toot! or Tooot, they're just similar names)

Ryoma123, 8 months ago

@feditips LMAO

SeeS, 8 months ago

@feditips I’ll wait a bit longer for the Sinclair ZX81 version

mookie, 8 months ago

@feditips @motoridersd I’m waiting for Mastodon on Punch Cards

blubfeesh, 8 months ago

@feditips Any news on a client for early OSX? Between this, IRC still functioning and Nina/Escargot you could just about daily drive an older computer again... XD

Just need a Youtube client... :P

afastaudir8, 8 months ago

@feditips Someone needs to make a client compatible with iOS 5

teajaygrey, 8 months ago

@feditips pretty sure that @grunfink's snac (https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2) has been known to compile successfully on IRIX. I'm not sure what the oldest version of a UNIX capable of building it is, but it might be neat to find out. ;)

Luna, 8 months ago

@feditips I need to try some of these.

RupertReynolds, 8 months ago

@feditips
Wow, quite a collection!

MVS was a gem in its time, and released open source (long before closed source wss invented). Nice to see it represented.

And from memory TK5 (a turnkey MVS/Hercules emulator system) has BREXX included (or it's easy to add. I forget)

SergKoren, 8 months ago

@feditips @griotspeak Ok now I want a //c more than ever before.

otheorange_tag, 8 months ago

@feditips ooo I am going to look at the win95 app stuff, bet I can convert to my antibrowser stuff!

Jaredsmith723, 8 months ago

@feditips

Paramount Network Dan GIF by Yellowstone

rodlux, 8 months ago

@feditips are there any for the #atari8it or #zxspectrum?

feditips, 8 months ago

@rodlux

Not that I know of, sorry! 🙁

By the way, if you're interested in 8-bit retro computing you might want to follow @reenthused which I highlighted over on @FediVideo today. The account posts lots of 8-bit and 16-bit computing videos, you can browse them all at https://diode.zone/a/reenthused/videos

rodlux, 8 months ago

@feditips @reenthused @FediVideo thanks, will check out the links. It's been a while since I looked in detail at the retro scene.

freder, 8 months ago

@feditips omg can’t wait to boot this up on my //e

magpi, 8 months ago

@feditips: @kez excite

robtherunt, 8 months ago

@feditips
Some people use their spare time in the most wonderful ways…

Natanox, 8 months ago

@feditips I wonder how many people actually use these. Like in "productive" use, not as gimmick.

feditips, 8 months ago

@Natanox

I think if people get pleasure and satisfaction from decades-old hardware working with new services, that is a really good reason to do it! 👍

(But yeah, don't know how many people use these as "daily drivers"... 🙂 )