Do you have an Amiga 500 and do you want a plug and play solution for Hard Disk, Kick 3.1, Acceleration (2-3x speedup) and much more? Maybe the ACA500+ is for you. Or do you want maximum speed with a bit of manual tinkering? Check out my video about both the ACA500+ and the Lazarustorm: https://youtu.be/FH9UKcrfov0 #retrocomputing#commodore#amiga500
Anyone got an old 486 or pentium 1-3 pc they wanna get rid of? My kid is really interested in playing with old computers #vintagecomputing#retrocomputing
Seller of 2004 Sony Laptop said he hadn’t tested the sound that it was probably just missing the driver. I think it’s a bit worse than that 😅 Well it was 40$. Audio out works though so I can just route the sound back to my speakers via the Mac.
time for fairly obscure canadian retrocomputing history
IBM Home Computing seems to have been a canada-only chain of retail stores that sold IBM products. it didn't last long here - maybe 5-10 years - before it disappeared in the early 2000s. we had a single location in downtown Edmonton City Centre Mall in the mid-90s.
it wasn't the place to go for the best deals on hardware and software. everything was sold at retail prices, and i remember seeing very few sales. i remember buying my Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold at the downtown location as a first-year university student for the princely sum of $300.
as you can see in the last photo - buying an IBM in 1994 was a major investment. you could buy three used cars at the time for less than a pentium desktop. 😬
does anyone else remember these retail stores? did they exist in the US, or was it a canadian chain?
one of my most cherished and irreplaceable retrocomputing devices is my peerless Roland SC-55.
while the MT-32 has been emulated quite well, the SC-55 always lagged behind in emulation - most attempts at it sounded pretty terrible, even using good soundfonts.
(and hauling around my SC-55 + midi & 3.5mm & usb cables just to play games in dosbox was painful)
in comes Nuked-SC55: it is a chip-level emulation project that just nails it.
it took about 30 seconds to build with cmake. i'm now going to try integrating it with dosbox, so i can finally play 90s DOS general midi games! (ultima viii pagan, here i come)
Got this Unidisk drive a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I couldn't insert a floppy disk, so I opened it, did a full maintenance and changed the infamous shitty gear that broke as soon as I touched it.
If you want proof that how people act on the internet is pretty much the same as it's ever been, back to ARPANET in 1984 no less... #humor#computer#RetroComputing
It’s not every day I get to play with a Xerox Alto thanks to the people at The Computer Museum in Maryland! I suck at Missile Command BTW. Great exhibit space and worth a visit! #RetroComputing#XeroxAlto
Some old but fascinating notes on the history of window systems by David Rosenthal, who worked on X-Windows and NeWS.
The post starts by commenting some remarks by Alan Kay on browser architecture and goes from there, discussing the work of other pioneers and their own comments. It covers display PostScript and other interesting system design ideas.
What was the last printed magazine article to publish detailed plans for building your own computer, and when was it? 1990s? Early ‘80s? I’m talking about plans with detailed schematics and PCB layouts, like the Mark-8 or COSMAC ELF. #VintageComputing#RetroComputing