#vintagehardware — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vintagehardware, aggregated by home.social.
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The Sentinel Assam: Legendary ‘Shutter Guru’ Nalini Kanta Baruah’s vintage cameras gifted to Tezpur University. “A collection of vintage cameras belonging to legendary Assam photographer Nalini Kanta Baruah, popularly known as the ‘Shutter Guru,’ has been donated to the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism (MCJ), Tezpur University, marking a significant addition to the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/24/the-sentinel-assam-legendary-shutter-guru-nalini-kanta-baruahs-vintage-cameras-gifted-to-tezpur-university/ -
Time Extension: This Dying Street Fighter II Cart Is A Sobering Reminder That Physical Doesn’t Mean Forever. “Ownership of the games we play is something that is naturally very close to the hearts of many gamers, and with good reason – billion-dollar companies are a little too fond of pulling access to digital goods, after all. However, it’s always worth keeping in mind that even physical […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/23/time-extension-this-dying-street-fighter-ii-cart-is-a-sobering-reminder-that-physical-doesnt-mean-forever/ -
Hackaday: Announcing The 2026 Hackaday Retrocomputing Challenge. “We’re happy to announce the 2026 Hackaday Retrocomputing Challenge! Now’s the chance to put your retrocomputer project up for all to see. Open up a Hackaday.io project that features your retrocomputer project, and we’ll pick our three favorites for a $150 gift certificate courtesy of this contest’s sponsor, DigiKey. You […]
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At long last -- my Amiga 2000 has a CPU speed switch!
( Fast and Faster )
A "new" 40MHz 68030/882 accelerator with 8MB 32-bit FAST RAM is slotted in and wired with a switch, there on the front. Base 68000 system has 8MB 16-bit FAST RAM, a respectable fallback for cycle-exact OCS/ECS demos.
#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #A2000 #Amiga2000 #MC68K #MC68000 #MC68030 #GVP #onlyAmiga #accelerators #hardware #vintagehardware #tech #vintagetech #Commodore #demo #demoscene #scenedemo #hxc2001 #CRT #posters #gameroom #ECS #ByteCellar #video #nostalgia #retrogaming #Boogietown
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Pour fêter l'histoire de la micro-informatique européenne,
Voici un petit hommage au Philips VG5000µ de 1984.Construit au Mans, équipé du Zilog Z80A à 4 MHz et du fameux chip graphique EF9345. C’était une machine taillée pour la crise . Elle exigeait d'acheter l'extension VG5216 juste pour pouvoir brancher des manettes... Le véritable esprit DIY des années 80 ! 🐘⚙️
L'as-tu connu ?
#RetroComputing #Minitel #VG5000 #OpenTech #VintageHardware #HistoryOfTech
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Tom’s Hardware: Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew. “An extensive Atari ST floppy disk database can now easily be accessed by all netizens. Originally created to serve floppy images to the owners of the SidecarTridge multi‑function hardware add‑on for the Atari ST family (ST, STE, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/12/toms-hardware-atari-st-public-floppy-database-now-open-for-everyone-online-archive-originally-designed-for-st-flash-cart-packed-with-classics-and-homebrew/ -
Associated Press: As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing. “While Silicon Valley has since moved on to shaping the future of artificial intelligence, these hardware enthusiasts are intent on saving the Atari, Commodore and IBM machines that are ancestors to today’s laptops, wearable devices and smart phones. Where others see junk, people like [Josh] Dersch see […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/10/associated-press-as-ai-grips-world-the-thrill-of-collecting-vintage-computers-is-growing/ -
The Register: Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory. “If you have wistful longings for the days when your songs carried the subtle hiss of the cassettes you listened to, we have some reel good news. A new project takes modern music back to the analog era. The project, available on GitHub, is called ‘Audio Cassette Simulation’ and uses FFmpeg to transcode […]
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The Register: Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display. “ScreenWall is a web platform developed by German software engineer Tuan Anh Bui that’ll turn any compatible device with an internet connection into a widget display without the need to install anything. If you can scan a QR code, you can have that old device displaying any number of things in no time.”
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TechSpot: Minecraft joins Doom in the “can it run?” hall of fame with Game Boy Color port. “The question of whether something can run Doom is almost always yes, it can. But Minecraft, while not exactly renowned for being graphically intensive, is more demanding and modern, so it’s especially impressive that a YouTuber managed to get the game running on Nintendo’s 1998 Game Boy Color.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/14/techspot-minecraft-joins-doom-in-the-can-it-run-hall-of-fame-with-game-boy-color-port/ -
Hommage à l'élégance industrielle : le HP9830A (1972).
Loin des gadgets jetables d'aujourd'hui, cette superbe machine de 16 bits offrait 3,5 Ko de RAM et un interpréteur BASIC en ROM. Pas de cloud, pas de télémétrie, pas d'IA : juste de la logique pure à 8 MHz encapsulée dans un design intemporel. Une machine souveraine pour des esprits d'avant-garde.
⚙️💻A lire : https://www.silicium.org/index.php/blog-catalogue/hewlett-packard/hp9830a
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Engadget: Guy who took photo of Jupiter with a Game Boy Camera and giant telescope publishes DIY tutorial . “Musician and retro tech fan Chris Graue made headlines last month after using a Game Boy Camera to take a photo of Jupiter. Obviously, a Game Boy Camera isn’t capable of that kind of range on its own. He and some colleagues connected the novelty camera to the eyepiece of the Hooker […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/12/engadget-guy-who-took-photo-of-jupiter-with-a-game-boy-camera-and-giant-telescope-publishes-diy-tutorial/ -
Games That Weren’t: Two Long Lost Commodore PET Adventures Recovered After 45 Years. “The original Commodore PET editions of Brian Cotton’s Catacombs and Goblin Towers, published by Supersoft back in 1981, have been recovered after being considered lost for around 45 years thanks to Marcel Lansing.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/08/games-that-werent-two-long-lost-commodore-pet-adventures-recovered-after-45-years/ -
🎉 Oh joy, another blog post chronicling the riveting tale of running #DOS on some obscure audio gear - because that's exactly what 2026 needed, more retro computing nonsense. 🖥️⚙️ Surely, the masses were waiting with bated breath for a DIY BIOS saga from the guy who can't stop talking about his 1994 i486. 📟😂
https://chrisdevblog.com/2026/06/08/running-dos-on-behringers-ddx3216-using-a-diy-x86-bios/ #retrocomputing #DIYprojects #techhumor #vintagehardware #HackerNews #ngated -
XDA Developers: I turned an old laptop into a personal app server, and it’s outperforming my expectations. “I have one spare laptop with a second-generation Intel Core i3 processor and 12GB of DDR3 memory. I upgraded it a few months before RAM became a hard-to-get commodity. The CPU is modest, but the memory makes it possible to run some of my essential self-hosted apps and save money on […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/12/xda-developers-i-turned-an-old-laptop-into-a-personal-app-server-and-its-outperforming-my-expectations/ -
The Register: Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR. “Anthony Caccese, a principal product lead for enterprise platforms at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by day and a Raspberry Pi tinkerer by night, recently published an open-source project called 240-MP on GitHub. It’s a simple concept: Text-based menus that look like an old-school VCR interface, but with […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/11/the-register-blockbuster-new-raspberry-pi-project-turns-any-screen-into-old-school-vcr/
