#retrocomp — Public Fediverse posts

Pomagałem przyjacielowi w przeprowadzce. I w podzięce dostałem takie oto zabytki.

Czyli już oficjalnie wróciłem do świata posiadaczy 8-bitowców. Mogę odpokutować grzechy młodości, kiedy to pomalowałem swoje C64 sprayem samochodowym na złoto i po kilku miesiącach wyrzuciłem na śmietnik. Teraz czeka mnie dużo pracy, żeby przywrócić je do stanu używalności - szczególnie magnetofony nie wyglądają dobrze. Ale w końcu na coś się przydadzą godziny oglądania YT... :)
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I was helping my friend in moving his house the other day and look what I got in return... It seems I'm oficially back to the world of 8-bit owners. Now I can repent for the sins of my youth, when I spraypainted gold my C64 and threw it into wastebin after a few months. Lots of work await me to bring these 2 guys to working condition (the tape players look particularly bad), but hey, I haven't spent all these hours warching restoration vids on YT for nothing...:) @janbeta #commodore #c64 #atari #8bit #retrocomp

Future project... IBM 5160 I recently got. Has a CGA, floppy, hard disk and lpt boards. Faulty power supply I need to resolve first.

This was my first PC growing up, so a lot of nostalgia fixing one up.

#IBM #8088 #Retrocomp #vintagecomputing #640k

Future project... IBM 5160 I recently got. Has a CGA, floppy, hard disk and lpt boards. Faulty power supply I need to resolve first.

This was my first PC growing up, so a lot of nostalgia fixing one up.

#IBM #8088 #Retrocomp #vintagecomputing #640k

Future project... IBM 5160 I recently got. Has a CGA, floppy, hard disk and lpt boards. Faulty power supply I need to resolve first.

This was my first PC growing up, so a lot of nostalgia fixing one up.

#IBM #8088 #Retrocomp #vintagecomputing #640k

Future project... IBM 5160 I recently got. Has a CGA, floppy, hard disk and lpt boards. Faulty power supply I need to resolve first.

This was my first PC growing up, so a lot of nostalgia fixing one up.

#IBM #8088 #Retrocomp #vintagecomputing #640k

Future project... IBM 5160 I recently got. Has a CGA, floppy, hard disk and lpt boards. Faulty power supply I need to resolve first.

This was my first PC growing up, so a lot of nostalgia fixing one up.

#IBM #8088 #Retrocomp #vintagecomputing #640k

Can someone id this thing? It's from the Soviet Union. None of the writing seems to indicate a year. I don't know how to read Cyrillic though.
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#retroComp #electronics #retroComputing #sovietEra

… also anyone have a spare 760 series HDD caddy? Mine came without it. Or at least pinout of that IBM proprietary connector so I can make my own adapter… #retrocomp #thinkpad

I found this poor IBM Thinkpad 760C without harddrive (and caddy for it) and with really bad vinegar syndrome polarizer bulge. I saw a few vids on how to remove polarizer from LCD and thought its an easy job. Boy I was wrong. Took me 2 hours to dismantle the LCD assembly, then 5 minutes to peel off polarizer, 2 hours of AC on vent mode to get rid of vinegar-acetone smell and then 4 hours of wiping off glue. Nevermore (I know I will do it again but this is what I think now) #retrocomp #thinkpad

Dica do @gwidion !
Emulador de Apple II https://emutopia.com/index.php/emulators/item/315-apple-ii/1468-octalyzer

#Apple2 #RetroComp

#retrocomp N'est jamais en retard pour se connecter au #Minitel!

okay janky beta1 of CurdleST deployed on my web site, go check it out

https://www.haxxed.com/curdlest/

play on the web, in an emulator or on real hardware

#wordle #curdle #CurdleST #retrocoding #retrocomp #retrocomputing #retrogaming #Atari #AtariST

trying to release CurdleST beta1 and pcejs just isn't cooperating

how do you crash an Atari ST this hard

its cursed i tell you

#retrocoding #retrocomp #retrocomputing #retrogaming #Atari #AtariST #curdle #CurdleST

experimenting with uploading video to youtube to lighten the load on the fediverse

fixed the sound on the SM124 SO NOW I CAN WATCH MONOCHROME DEMOS!

here's one that isn't currently emulated properly, it does some overscan tricks, and displays greyscale by drawing during the horizontal blanking interval???

have fun emulating that

doesn't look like a finished production, still pretty glitchy on real hardware 🙃​

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST

https://youtu.be/XTbOgrIFTVU

as i suspected the reason the sound wasn't working was because the speaker wire fell off 🙃​

managed to improve the brightness and focus slightly, and center it better but it sure drifts all over the place as it warms up

decided i didn't want to mess with the neck which is how you straighten out the rotation

and decided to leave the size alone, the corners are blurry enough as it is

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST

i want to adjust this SM124 but wanted to document its calibration first

common complaint was the wide borders around the display

that's just how they came

drew some squares in Degas Elite and measured it

the pinhole phone camera distorts this spectacularly but it is actually pretty dead on 8in by 5in for the displayed area, which given 640x400 resolution means it is calibrated to 80dpi exactly

yes it is supposed to be square pixels, so if you do the math on that, the Atari ST may be the first system with 16:10 widescreen 🙃​

if you've expanded your display out to 4:3 you've done it wrong

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST

eyeballing an ACSI2STM

might be able to snag one on the next paycheck

if you want to support System 7 on the Atari ST and other retrocomputing shenanigans, Ko-fi is in my bio 🙃​💸​

https://www.tindie.com/products/masteries/hard-disk-interface-for-atari-ste/

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

CRACKED SPECTRE 3.0 FOUND!

thanks OPCS

this can run System 6! with MultiFinder!

but just barely

its a bit heavy for a single floppy system with only "832k" RAM

System 7 absolutely requires a hard drive 🙃​

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

figured out how to make Aladin disks, it's a 9216 byte FAT wrapper followed by a 711k MFS filesystem

doesn't seem to accept HFS even though System 3.x was the first Mac OS with full HFS support ugh

found a copy of Red Ryder 10.3, which lets me select 19200bps and actually lets me use the extra screen space 🙃

White Knight won't run for some reason, even though it runs on System 3.2 in minivmac

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

ok silly me there IS a copy of Aladin 3.0 buried in the archive!

still based on System 3.2, with a bit more customizing

has the same software on the BOOT disk

shufflepuck doesn't crash on this version

however the keymap selector disappeared so it's stuck with a German keymap?

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

and a copy of Red Ryder, a popular terminal program in the early Macintosh years

logging on, Jackintosh edition

this might provide a (very slow) way to get files in and out of this thing, but i still can't get file transfers to work over the wifi modem 😭

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

what's on the second disk?

well this confirms it, Aladin seems to depend on patching some things to work, but they do supply nicely documented (in German) patches and a tool to apply them

go go Google lens

piecing together an English system looks to be possible

early Mac OS versioning is fragmented, Finder 5.3 went with System 3.2 and only much later retroactively labeled "System Software 1.1" by Apple, which would have been the current version in 1987

so we're a year before System 6

again if anyone has any other Aladin disks about, perhaps an English version or especially a copy of Aladin 2.1 please get them uploaded to archive.org for preservation

there's also a copy of Turbo Pascal 1.0, neat

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

i was able to mount the disk image it boots from in minivmac and copy over some small games

Alice runs!

but shufflepuck is very crashy

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #retrogaming #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

time for more retro computers running the wrong retro operating systems!

this is Aladin, a very Deutsches Produkt for running Mac OS on an Atari ST

normally it required a cart with Mac ROMs in it, this is the cracked v1.3 that's all i can find on the internet, if anyone has a newer version please send it my way

first run the setup program and make sure the second floppy drive is set "nicht angeschlossen" on a single drive system or it will not work

remember it is J for Ja to save the settings

all floppies must be write enabled or it will also Nicht Funktionieren for some reason

start it up and with any luck you will be Macintosh willkommen geheißen

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac

for more about the development of the Atari ST, go check out the CarpDOS story and more from Atari (and later Apple!) developer Landon Dyer's blog:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200219014622/http://www.dadhacker.com:80/blog/?p=995

https://web.archive.org/web/20200108214542/http://dadhacker.com:80/blog/?p=1000

https://web.archive.org/web/20180816195949/http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1383

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa

speaking of Apple Lisa source...

source code for the GEMDOS prototype for the Apple Lisa was found among the Digital Research source code that was released under the GPL by Caldera a while back

now that's how you publicly license historical source code

and people have gotten it to run!

with a full GEM desktop!

it even runs well behaving Atari ST apps!

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=20964

http://www.alternative-system.com/en/revive-gemdos-for-lisa/

http://compu85.homeip.net/stuff/Lisa/Software/GemDos/

https://github.com/cheesestraws/lisa-gemdos

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa #GEM

you can see the early "DAS BOOT" disk loading TOS boot screen, printed really big pasted up on the whiteboard for some reason

probably using that Apple Imagewriter

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST

https://youtu.be/SLmC5jWXTP8?t=637

someone pointed out there is an Apple Lisa with Atari asset tags owned by a collector in Germany?

and may still have the TOS development system on its hard drive

http://homecomputer.de/pages/f_info.html?Apple_Lisa2_5_Atari.html

could be the same one on the far right in the photo!

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa

as it is the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa i am once again obsessing about this photo of Atari developers Dave Staugas, Jim Eisenstein and Jerome Domurat sitting in front of a few Apple Lisas and Macintoshes in March of 1985

the Apple Lisa was used to prototype the Atari ST's TOS operating system before the hardware was ready

the photo is from this Antic Podcast interview with Jerome:

https://archive.org/details/JeromeDomuratInterview/

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa

testing the FreeGEM build of CurdleST

uhhh seems the RSC converter doesn't endian flip icons properly 🙃

also lacks character set​ translation

#wordle #demake #curdle #Curdled #retrocoding #retrocomp #retrocomputing #retrogaming #MSDOS #FreeGEM

check out the disk it's on

a well worn NEOchrome disk from a long forgotten rust belt PD library

pretty sure this is among the first disks my dad ever bought back in the day, when most stuff came on single sided disks

since we had double sided drives the obvious thing to do was reformat the disks to 820k and add more stuff to them...

i can find ads for AccuSoft as early as the December 1986 issue of ST Log and there's a mention of them selling at WAACE Atarifest '92 in Current Notes

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​

been a while since i used Degas Elite

never used it in mono before

an early standard in Atari ST paint programs, notable for supporting all three resolutions while most competitors only supported 16 color low res

lots of draw modes mostly coming straight from the VDI API, there is a pixel-scattering "blur" brush that is ripe for some neat hand shading effects in high res

fun fact Tom Hudson went on to create CAD-3D on the Atari ST then jumped ship to the PC, as a developer of the original 3D Studio

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​

Totally awesome #c64 music demo

https://youtu.be/3FsOvdrnBYA

#commodore64 #RetroComputing #retrocomp #chiptune #music

logging on, monochrome edition

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​

its here!

had to remove the screw thingies to plug in to the ST... which are all that holds the outer shield on 🙃

oh well, might have to glue it on?

connected to Level 29, as is tradition

the wifi modem won't connect to the house wireless for some reason, so i connected it to my phone

that's right, this 520ST has 5G wireless connectivity!

#retrocomp #retrocompuing #Atari #AtariST #BBS

@ahto i use Thortsten Otto's gcc toolchain on a raspi 4 as i find amusement in using modern compilers to target old systems as if they were embedded systems 🙃

https://tho-otto.de/crossmint.php

i can rapidly test software using hatari's GEMDOS drive emulation

to write disks to run on real hardware i've got a bondi blue iMac era TEAC FD-05PU USB floppy drive 😁

#retrocomp #retrocompuing #retrocoding #Atari #AtariST #C #gcc

my PDP-1 Type 30 P7 phosphor simulator running on real hardware

#retrocomp #RetroComputing #Atari #AtariST #PDP1

https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/6e1ddda2-1a27-42ec-84dc-02b146d9decd Código Fuente del #virus #stoned #retrocomp #retrocomputación #retrocomputing #computervirus #sourcecode #assembler