20-foot Tall Donkey Kong Cabinet (with wheels) (mastodon.archive.org)
It runs on a motherboard from an original Donkey Kong cabinet. At The Museum of Play in Rochester NY. I live so close, can’t wait to get back there!
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It runs on a motherboard from an original Donkey Kong cabinet. At The Museum of Play in Rochester NY. I live so close, can’t wait to get back there!
I’ve started gaining an interest in independent personal blogs on the internet, even starting my own (chainsmash.net, if anyone cares). I’ve mostly been inspired by blogs like digdeeper.club and lukesmith.xyz, as well as from other notable people such as RMS and George Hotz....
This site allows you to experience what classic Macintosh operating systems were like. You can launch most of those versions in your browser. More applications and games can be installed as well. At the very least, you can see how the operating system evolved over time.
Getting that up-arrow command recall in DOS 6.22… 👌 straight to the AUTOEXEC.BAT
In celebration of the Old Computer Challenge 2023 and to help people get on the fediverse on their retro computers, I have setup a Brutaldon instance :D Brutaldon is a wonderful Mastadon client that is sparse and viewable using any older browser that supports CSS (ie; netsurf, older firefox). HTTP and HTTPS is available as well....
I am a current Apple daily driver for my computing needs, but not until somewhat recently...
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/tech/t/98443...
available via homebrew with:...
I was going through some old things on Gopher recently and came across information about WideAreaInformationServers. The problem I am having is figuring out if there are any still in operation and if so, how you would access them in this day and age. If anyone has info on this topic, I would love to hear your thoughts.
Released in 1986, TradeWars was among the earliest multiplayer online games. As of 2013, TradeWars has been hosted on over 21,000 different sites in 59 different countries, with some sites hosting the game continuously for over 25 years.
Back in the early 90's while scrolling through the USENET with pine, I stumbled on an odd post. Apparently someone had created what they called a hyper-text markup language to be used on something else named the world wide web using a dedicated browser. I was interested but also dubious. Didn't we already have the recently...
There's something about the consistency that is missing nowadays.
Linux-Mandrake 6.0 was actually my intro to Linux. Lots and lots of memories....
Enlightenment E16, circa 2000, with the Bluesteel theme
It really whips the llama's ass.
I've been curious about exploring other non-HTTP minimalist internet protocols such as Gopher or Gemini, but frankly I don't know where to begin. Are there any good tutorials out there for folks looking to get started, or can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
I unironically used this theme when I was a kid!...