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  1. Playing around with some Boing-alikes on different retro platforms today. Here's Shiny Bubbles from Xanth for the Atari ST, who also famously made the FujiBoink! demo.

    Running on my 4MB 520STm. 60fps smoothness is lovely.

    #AtariST #Atari #Atari520ST #Xanth #Boing #ShinyBubbles #raytracing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #video #CRT #nostalgia #AppleII #computerrooom #ByteCellar

  2. Playing around with some Boing-alikes on different retro platforms today. Here's Shiny Bubbles from Xanth for the Atari ST, who also famously made the FujiBoink! demo.

    Running on my 4MB 520STm. 60fps smoothness is lovely.

    #AtariST #Atari #Atari520ST #Xanth #Boing #ShinyBubbles #raytracing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #video #CRT #nostalgia #AppleII #computerrooom #ByteCellar

  3. Playing around with some Boing-alikes on different retro platforms today. Here's Shiny Bubbles from Xanth for the Atari ST, who also famously made the FujiBoink! demo.

    Running on my 4MB 520STm. 60fps smoothness is lovely.

    #AtariST #Atari #Atari520ST #Xanth #Boing #ShinyBubbles #raytracing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #video #CRT #nostalgia #AppleII #computerrooom #ByteCellar

  4. Playing around with some Boing-alikes on different retro platforms today. Here's Shiny Bubbles from Xanth for the Atari ST, who also famously made the FujiBoink! demo.

    Running on my 4MB 520STm. 60fps smoothness is lovely.

    #AtariST #Atari #Atari520ST #Xanth #Boing #ShinyBubbles #raytracing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #video #CRT #nostalgia #AppleII #computerrooom #ByteCellar

  5. Playing around with some Boing-alikes on different retro platforms today. Here's Shiny Bubbles from Xanth for the Atari ST, who also famously made the FujiBoink! demo.

    Running on my 4MB 520STm. 60fps smoothness is lovely.

    #AtariST #Atari #Atari520ST #Xanth #Boing #ShinyBubbles #raytracing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #video #CRT #nostalgia #AppleII #computerrooom #ByteCellar

  6. A somewhat unusual "Macintosh" for this year's MARCHintosh offering...

    Here is my Atari 520ST running Spectre, a Macintosh emulator (or translator, perhaps more accurately) which features actual Macintosh Plus ROMs (user must provide) and in 1989 (along with Magic Sac which preceded it in 1986) was "the only legal Macintosh clone." Gadgets by Small, who made the device, called it 20% faster than a Mac Plus, with a 30% larger screen size (640x400 on the ST monochrome display vs. 512x342 on the early Macs). 

    The Atari 520STm shown here features an 8MHz MC68000, has been expanded to 4MB RAM (up from 512K), features an HxC2001 floppy emulator, an ACSI2STM hard disk emulator, and dual Atari RGB and monochrome monitors, switchable with a Monitor Master switchbox. The 12-inch SM124 monitor showing Pinball Construction Set for Mac is nearly identical to the early Mac monochrome displays in terms of clarity, the distinctive bluish P4-class phosphor, and its overall "presence." It is a very nice display running at a rock-solid 71Hz.

    (A similar series of devices, beginning with the A-Max, was released by ReadySoft for the Commodore Amiga in 1989, though I found the ST options more appealing, in large part due to the superb high-res, non-interlaced monochrome display the ST supported.)

    #MARCHintosh

    #Macintosh #Mac #Apple #vintageApple #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputers #computing #computers #CRT #emulation #Finder #Spectre #MagicSac #Atari #AtariST #Atari520ST #photo #photos #nostalgia #vintage #BillBudge #tech #ElectronicArts #ByteCellar

  7. Having a ball with my original 1996 PSX now that I replaced the optical drive. Such an awesome console, with a 32-bit 33.87MHz MIPS R3000A CPU (with no floating point) made on a 500nm node.

    Magic at the time.

    Here's Crash Bandicoot running at 512x240 resolution on a CRT via s-video. What a blast!

    #Playstation #SonyPlaystation #PSX #PS1 #console #consolegaming #retrogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #nostalgia #CRT #games #gaming #gamers #MIPS #RISC #video #gamevideo #ByteCellar

  8. "Dialed" into the Mac Studio wirelessly across the room for some IRCing on old hardware, here as the snow falls. ❄️

    I had to modify the plist and shell config scripts I'd setup on the Mac since "upgrading" to macOS 26 Tahoe to get this working without gripes in the terminal.

    #Mac #macOS #terminal #serialterminal #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinginthesnow #AppleII #AppleIIe #MacStudio #ProTerm #BBSing #IRCing #BBS #IRC #WiFi232 #login #telnet #WiFimodem #computers #CRT #floppydrive #ByteCellar #BASH #photo #UNIX

  9. Looking for a different monitor use case, I happened to notice the LG DualUp display is available at far less places than it was a year or two ago...

    LG confirmed in product site feedback that it is still being made -- in a 5 month old post.

    This might be time for me to grab a second one to keep waiting in the wings. Best display I've ever used in my life (center, 2560x2880 8:9 aspect display (rotated 90 degrees in accompanying photo)).

    #LG #LGDualUp #displays #lcd #monitors #tech #desktop #setups #Mac #PC #desktop #ByteCellar

  10. Playing some Wipeout XL on my newly-repaired Playstation (SCPH-1001, purchased in 1996) using the Namco NeGcon analog racing controller.

    I've replaced the PSU and the dead optical drive on this unit with a pre-tuned unit from TotalConsole. Drop in and go. Glad to have this back up and running after several years dark.

    #Playstation #PSX #PS1 #PSOne #sony #consoles #gameconsoles #retrogaming #retrogames #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #nostalgia #TotalConsole #hardware #video #CRT #NeGcon #Namco #Psygnosis #Wipeout #WipeoutXL #ByteCellar

  11. Replacement Playstation optical drive from TotalConsole works very well -- this was being discussed as a drop-in-and-go replacement (not tuning) and it's worked with everything I've tested it with so far except one CD-R that I burned about 18 years ago.

    My original Playstation from 1996, which I mod-chipped and in which I recently replaced the PSU (and optical drive).

    Haujobb scenedemo playing here, Orgonakkumulator (1999).

    🙌

    #playstation #psx #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #gaming #hardware #tech #opticalmedia #cd #repair #TotalConsole #PS1 #PSOne #demoscene #scenedemo #video #CRT #ByteCellar

  12. After some wild mathematical hat rendering yesterday, kicked off by @scruss and @paulrickards, I've got John Brooks' ridiculously optimized 10 line Applesoft BASIC program running on the IIe.

    (Time-lapse video; the hat takes about 9 minutes to render on the 1MHz IIe.)

    The listing can be found here: groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.a

    #BASIC #AppleII #AppleIIe #Applesoft #plotting #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #apple2forever #CRT #CFFA3000 #video #geek #nerdy #programming #geometry #WhizKids #timelapse #ByteCellar

  13. My newly dual-headed Atari 520ST system.

    I've had this 520STm 4MB color setup for some years now, but recently expanded it, as I had long been wanting to.

    I've just added an SM124 (very sharp) monochrome 72Hz 640x400 display (switching between it and the SC1224 RGB display with a MonitorMaster switchbox that I acquired new about 10 years ago for this eventual purpose). I also have just added an ACSI2STM SD card-based HD emulator.

    The stand is an A520 STation, which is a fairly rare item (I've never seen another in use).

    #Atari #AtariST #Atari520ST #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #CRT #setups #desk #computers #vintage #vintagetech #photo #computerrooms #retrogaming #retrogames #games #gaming #ACSI2STM #HxC2001 #ByteCellar