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💻 Happy Nat'l IBM PC Day! — August 12, 2026

IBM PC Day, observed every August 12, commemorates the launch of the original IBM Personal Computer in 1981. IBM5150.net

#IBMPCDay #NatlToday #IBM #PC #1981 #8080 #8088 #8Bit #16Bit #MicroComputer #16kBRAM #RAM #ROM #Floppy #I/O #ISA #eISA #Serial #DotMatrix #BIOS #DOS #Prompt #CommandLine #OS #Intel #DialUp #BBS #ShareWare #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory

Llamatron 2112 (by @llamasoft_ox) review by Ancient DOS Games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7oNXz5o1XU

#retrogaming #llamatron #shareware

Llamatron 2112 (by @llamasoft_ox) review by Ancient DOS Games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7oNXz5o1XU

#retrogaming #llamatron #shareware

📬 DOOM-Piraterie: John Romero enthüllt, warum id Software mit Piraten kooperierte
#Gaming #Szene #Doom #DOOMPiraterie #idSoftware #JohnRomero #Raubkopien #Shareware #SoftwarePiraterie #Spielepiraterie #Taiwan https://sc.tarnkappe.info/e2517d

📬 DOOM-Piraterie: John Romero enthüllt, warum id Software mit Piraten kooperierte
#Gaming #Szene #Doom #DOOMPiraterie #idSoftware #JohnRomero #Raubkopien #Shareware #SoftwarePiraterie #Spielepiraterie #Taiwan https://sc.tarnkappe.info/e2517d

Potrzebuję pomocy od starych graczy, jak ja!

Polska, 1998.
Supermarket Marko.
Wielki kosz z płytami #CD pełnymi #shareware . Biorę Gry Labiryntowe i Gry Sieciowe od Albionu. Gram bez wytchnienia.
20 lat później, giną mi Sieciowe. Kto ma? Kto pomoże zgrać i zachować kawałek historii?

KTO MA SIECIOWE???

Co z nimi zrobię? To: https://archive.org/details/zreczno2

#digitalhoarder #hoarding #archive #DigitalPreservation #history

Potrzebuję pomocy od starych graczy, jak ja!

Polska, 1998.
Supermarket Marko.
Wielki kosz z płytami #CD pełnymi #shareware . Biorę Gry Labiryntowe i Gry Sieciowe od Albionu. Gram bez wytchnienia.
20 lat później, giną mi Sieciowe. Kto ma? Kto pomoże zgrać i zachować kawałek historii?

KTO MA SIECIOWE???

Co z nimi zrobię? To: https://archive.org/details/zreczno2

#digitalhoarder #hoarding #archive #DigitalPreservation #history

I've been producing a twice-yearly newsletter for the Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group since 2015. I started with Windows Publisher and continued out of reluctance to learn to use anything else (i.e. laziness!). Now support for Publisher is being withdrawn (just like that) and I need to find an alternative. I've had a go at Scribus but does anyone know of any freeware more similar to Publisher?

#DTP #LayoutSoftware #Freeware #Shareware #OpenSource #Scribus

I've been producing a twice-yearly newsletter for the Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group since 2015. I started with Windows Publisher and continued out of reluctance to learn to use anything else (i.e. laziness!). Now support for Publisher is being withdrawn (just like that) and I need to find an alternative. I've had a go at Scribus but does anyone know of any freeware more similar to Publisher?

#DTP #LayoutSoftware #Freeware #Shareware #OpenSource #Scribus

Link to Pane: буфер обмена Mac Android через протокол Microsoft (потому что иначе — pain (икра слов)

Привет, Хабр! Пришло время реверсить протоколы снова. Apple я делал. Google тоже. Угадайте какая компания следующая?

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1060248/

#phone_link #link_to_windows #clipboard #macos #reverse_engineering #microsoft #shareware

Amiga Shareware Coverdisks Ranked by UK Gaming Network
#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaGames #Shareware #Coverdisks #RetroGaming #UKGamingNetwork #Llamatron #Cybernetix #AlienFishFinger
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-shareware-coverdisks-ranked-by-uk-gaming-network/?fsp_sid=9882

Amiga Shareware Coverdisks Ranked by UK Gaming Network
#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaGames #Shareware #Coverdisks #RetroGaming #UKGamingNetwork #Llamatron #Cybernetix #AlienFishFinger
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-shareware-coverdisks-ranked-by-uk-gaming-network/?fsp_sid=9882

TUCOWS archive, remember? #techhistory #vintagecomputing #archive #shareware #freeware

TUCOWS archive, remember? #techhistory #vintagecomputing #archive #shareware #freeware

Trésor au tourne-livres de la plage !

Quelques diskettes attendaient au milieu des vieux livres.

Surprise ! Les deux disquettes blanches avec le logo bleu 36 17 JukeBox (Epic Pinball et Catacomb Abyss) nous rappellent l'âge d'or du Minitel.
As-tu payé des belles factures de téléphone bien salée pour en recevoir ?
#GenerationMinitel #SoundBlaster #RetroGaming #PCGamingHistory #Shareware

FYI: Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

FYI: Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

Das 16-Bit RPG "Castle of the Winds" war für mich als Kind unter Windows 3.1 eins meiner absoluten Lieblingsspiele! Dabei hatte ich damals, wie so oft, nur eine billige Kopie der Sharewareversion. :computerfairies:

Daher freut es mich umso mehr, inzwischen doch eine ganz nette, kleine Sammlung an verschiedenen Originaldisketten zusammengetragen zu haben!

Ihr könnt sie euch mitterweile natürlich alle im Internet Archive herunterladen: https://archive.org/details/@dfxthomas?query=Castle+Winds

#Gaming #Retro #Shareware #Win311

Das 16-Bit RPG "Castle of the Winds" war für mich als Kind unter Windows 3.1 eins meiner absoluten Lieblingsspiele! Dabei hatte ich damals, wie so oft, nur eine billige Kopie der Sharewareversion. :computerfairies:

Daher freut es mich umso mehr, inzwischen doch eine ganz nette, kleine Sammlung an verschiedenen Originaldisketten zusammengetragen zu haben!

Ihr könnt sie euch mitterweile natürlich alle im Internet Archive herunterladen: https://archive.org/details/@dfxthomas?query=Castle+Winds

#Gaming #Retro #Shareware #Win311

Spotted on Reddit and hosted at the Internet Archive: 1990-1994 Mail Order 5.25″ shareware disk collection. “This is my family’s collection of shareware we ordered and had on our PC circa 1990-1994. Please enjoy it as a period collection or install all of it on a hard drive on a 386 or 486 computer with DOS 5.0/Win3.1 for the ultimate ‘you are literally experiencing my old computer’ […]

Spotted on Reddit and hosted at the Internet Archive: 1990-1994 Mail Order 5.25″ shareware disk collection. “This is my family’s collection of shareware we ordered and had on our PC circa 1990-1994. Please enjoy it as a period collection or install all of it on a hard drive on a 386 or 486 computer with DOS 5.0/Win3.1 for the ultimate ‘you are literally experiencing my old computer’ […]

Kun nyt menneen maailman ohjelmista tuli toisessa säikeessä puhe, minun on aina silloin tällöin tullut ikävä #QEdit'iä, #PCFile'ä ja #PCWrite'ä (oikea kirjoitusasu ”PC-Write”, mutta tunniste katkeaa yhdysmerkistä). Yksinkertaisempia mutta tuottoisia aikoja. #atkjuttuja #nostalgia #shareware

Kun nyt menneen maailman ohjelmista tuli toisessa säikeessä puhe, minun on aina silloin tällöin tullut ikävä #QEdit'iä, #PCFile'ä ja #PCWrite'ä (oikea kirjoitusasu ”PC-Write”, mutta tunniste katkeaa yhdysmerkistä). Yksinkertaisempia mutta tuottoisia aikoja. #atkjuttuja #nostalgia #shareware

ICYMI: Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

ICYMI: Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

Je sais que la comparaison est boiteuse mais le timing des deux nouvelles m'a inspiré ce petit #meme avec #microsoft et #linux . 🪟 🐧

Et je me rappelle que la sortie du processeur #Intel486 remonte à bien des lustres (1989) mais ce que je ne savais pas, c'est qu'il était encore produit jusqu'en 2007... ça reste impressionnant, considérant les avancés technologiques des processeurs.

Bonne nuit, prince du MS-DOS et des multiples jeux #shareware que j'ai jamais acheté. 😉

Fait avec #memerist

Je sais que la comparaison est boiteuse mais le timing des deux nouvelles m'a inspiré ce petit #meme avec #microsoft et #linux . 🪟 🐧

Et je me rappelle que la sortie du processeur #Intel486 remonte à bien des lustres (1989) mais ce que je ne savais pas, c'est qu'il était encore produit jusqu'en 2007... ça reste impressionnant, considérant les avancés technologiques des processeurs.

Bonne nuit, prince du MS-DOS et des multiples jeux #shareware que j'ai jamais acheté. 😉

Fait avec #memerist

ms-dos vga hi-res mode shareware perfection: Bert's Dinosaurs

not only did coder figure out how to draw in the underused 640x480 16 colour mode, but they also figured out how to destroy the pc speaker with their kid's digitized voice 👏

https://archive.org/details/msdos_BERTDINO_shareware

#msdos #dosGaming #retroGaming #shareware #dinosaurs

ms-dos vga hi-res mode shareware perfection: Bert's Dinosaurs

not only did coder figure out how to draw in the underused 640x480 16 colour mode, but they also figured out how to destroy the pc speaker with their kid's digitized voice 👏

https://archive.org/details/msdos_BERTDINO_shareware

#msdos #dosGaming #retroGaming #shareware #dinosaurs

Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

new .plan post: doing a computing science degree the hard way, or how Tim Cain saved the day

want to learn how a programmer's lack of experience with a specific kind of computing science problem leads to a year-long rut in building software? i wrote about how Exigy got the ability to save and load, because I refused to take a CS course in Data Structures.

https://exigy.org/plan?sort=new&#2026-04-16

#gamedev #programming #lua #exigy #shareware

new .plan post: doing a computing science degree the hard way, or how Tim Cain saved the day

want to learn how a programmer's lack of experience with a specific kind of computing science problem leads to a year-long rut in building software? i wrote about how Exigy got the ability to save and load, because I refused to take a CS course in Data Structures.

https://exigy.org/plan?sort=new&#2026-04-16

#gamedev #programming #lua #exigy #shareware

woooo time for a kiki update. this one is a bugfix release that corrects two super annoying problems with RSS feed generation.

while we all love RSS, it has to be one of the most finicky protocols to actually write code for 😅. every client seems to have its own quirks. so here's my attempt at keeping the protocol alive and happy:

- RSS feeds now show the correct pubdate time because it now takes timezone into consideration, and then converts your timezone to GMT.

- under very weird and unknown conditions, incorrect rss URLs were being generated. While I couldn't reproduce the exact cause (I suspect it was due to robots scraping kiki instances and the PHP server not generating browser variables for them), I was able to eliminate the bug with a small change to how URLs are generated.

thank you to kiki oper @kickingk for catching both of these bugs.

and if you're new to kiki, this is your invitation to join the kiki club!

there is a free shareware version here for those who want to get their toes wet with building their own little blog, and a paid registered version for folks who want to dive straight in :D
https://tomotama.itch.io/kiki/

#kiki #patch #shareware #php #smolweb #indieWeb #rss

woooo time for a kiki update. this one is a bugfix release that corrects two super annoying problems with RSS feed generation.

while we all love RSS, it has to be one of the most finicky protocols to actually write code for 😅. every client seems to have its own quirks. so here's my attempt at keeping the protocol alive and happy:

- RSS feeds now show the correct pubdate time because it now takes timezone into consideration, and then converts your timezone to GMT.

- under very weird and unknown conditions, incorrect rss URLs were being generated. While I couldn't reproduce the exact cause (I suspect it was due to robots scraping kiki instances and the PHP server not generating browser variables for them), I was able to eliminate the bug with a small change to how URLs are generated.

thank you to kiki oper @kickingk for catching both of these bugs.

and if you're new to kiki, this is your invitation to join the kiki club!

there is a free shareware version here for those who want to get their toes wet with building their own little blog, and a paid registered version for folks who want to dive straight in :D
https://tomotama.itch.io/kiki/

#kiki #patch #shareware #php #smolweb #indieWeb #rss

FYI: Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

FYI: Classic Games: Solitaire, Scrabble, and Strategy Games #shorts: Relive the nostalgia of 1990s gaming with a look at shareware titles. Discover Solitaire, Scrabble, and the Civil War Strategy game that may spark memories. #shareware #retrogaming #civilwarstrategy #pcgaming #90sgaming https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-gudLqwyFg

Is @kagihq the same #Kagi that used to do #shareware registrations?