#vintagesoftware — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vintagesoftware, aggregated by home.social.
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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/ -
~please no one tell corel~ I did buy it for $3
growing up in ontario in the 90s, I was taught WordPerfect and QuattroPro.
in elementary school my ‘dog ate my homework’ was that I’d bring my file on a diskette w/ a .doc from Word from home and be like ‘OoOooOppssss I can’t print it I’ll have to bring it tomorrow as RTF’ (and then actually do the book report) – I am no longer this lame we can blame the cloud now.
#vintagesoftware #vintagecomputing #schooldays #retrosoftware #retrocomputing
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Mountain View Voice: Mountain View’s Computer History Museum receives $14 million donation. “The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has received two gifts totaling roughly $14 million to renovate its computer graphics gallery and preserve the collection of Autodesk co-founder John W. Walker.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/mountain-view-voice-mountain-views-computer-history-museum-receives-14-million-donation/ -
How-To Geek: Why I’ve started archiving software the same way I archive family photos. “I have a habit of keeping all my software and files, regardless of whether I use them regularly. I have a sweet deprecated version of Noteworthy Composer (to run on a VM) and a portable version of Reaper that I’ve been using for years. The modern web and modern services have made it increasingly difficult […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/21/how-to-geek-why-ive-started-archiving-software-the-same-way-i-archive-family-photos/ -
Spotted in my RSS feeds: Buddy List. See which of your Bluesky mutuals are online. No login or credential required. If you remember AIM this is some nice nostalgia.
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/14/see-when-your-bluesky-mutuals-are-online-buddy-list/ -
@PurpleJillybeans you #NerdSniped me with this, so down the 🐰🕳️ I went… 🤬😩
I was going to suggest that you reach out to the person who wrote the blog post below, but I see in the comments that he’s already been asked to upload the install media to #InternetArchive and has declined
the article might be of interest to you anyway – he lists his install configs & also links to video playlists of installations of lots of (all? 🤔) versions…
…which are on the official VMware YT channel 🤔
ah, OK. it looks like he currently works for #Broadcom, so that’s probably a dead end as far as getting the installers that he has (access to) preserved on IA 😕
How to install all versions of ESX and ESXi in VM?https://williamlam.com/2023/04/how-to-install-all-versions-of-esx-and-esxi-in-vm.html
it’s so frustrating that vendors don’t just make this available as part of preserving their own product history, if nothing else. I sincerely doubt that anyone’s going to be downloading & running ESX 1.5 in production 20+ years later to avoid buying the current version 🤪what I’d really like to see is legislation that mandates that all no-longer-supported software be made available publicly & released into the commons, but given the US is allergic to regulating just about anything I don’t see that happening any time soon 😩
#DigiPres
#VMware #GSX #ESX #ESXi
#VintageSoftware
#RetroComputing
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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/ -
Digital Trends: Miss the old PC days? This website lets you experience Wikipedia like it’s Windows XP . “Developer Sami Smith has built a browser-based Windows XP Wikipedia explorer that turns categories into folders and articles into documents. It’s playful, slightly inefficient, and more interesting than another AI search box bolted onto the web.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/18/digital-trends-miss-the-old-pc-days-this-website-lets-you-experience-wikipedia-like-its-windows-xp/ -
Ars Technica: Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app . “Some AcuRite customers are upset about losing access to My AcuRite because they think AcuRite Now is an inferior app. Those customers have complained online about being unable to use AcuRite Now to rename multiple temperature sensors, difficulties uploading data to weather sites, and the app […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/18/ars-technica-weather-monitoring-firm-hangs-dark-cloud-over-customers-heads-by-forcing-new-app/ -
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’ […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/16/1990s-shareware-collection/ -
Und wenn es dann mal doch nicht passt ... schickt man die Karte ab und bekam einen Satz Disketten in einer anderen Größe, falls man über ein anderes Laufwerk verfügte 🤓
Euch allen einen schönen Abend 👋 und immer genug Platz auf der alten Platte 🙏
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The Register: Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00. “Antiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it’s 86-DOS 1.00 getting the open source treatment, and a whole lot more for retro enthusiasts. The release comes a year after Microsoft set the source for MS-DOS 4.0 free, but it includes a lot more than just the bones […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/01/the-register-microsoft-opens-door-to-the-past-by-releasing-86-dos-and-pc-dos-1-00/ -
🎉 Behold, the latest marvel from the world of tech: Fuzix OS, because apparently the 70s weren't long enough! 🕰️ The release notes are a breathtaking saga of "look, we fixed some bugs" and "now you can run ancient binaries on your ancient hardware." 🚀 Welcome to 2023, where small is beautiful, and relevance is... optional. 😜
https://www.fuzix.org/ #FuzixOS #TechNews #RetroComputing #VintageSoftware #BugFixes #HackerNews #ngated -
Hackaday: OldVersion Is Back, And Better Than Ever. “You know what they say — you can’t keep a good website down. OldVersion.com, the repository of outdated software that has been serving up old versions of tools you need for the last twenty-five years, is not going away as we reported last year. Not only is it sticking around, it’s gotten a retro facelift inspired by Windows 3.1 or OS/2.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/02/hackaday-oldversion-is-back-and-better-than-ever/ -
Tom’s Hardware: Developer’s 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features classic 90s web browser, text editor, and more. “Posted as an open-source project on GitHub under the GPL license, but accessible via its own website, the project has faithfully recreated the appearance of a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/03/toms-hardware-developers-1994-linux-desktop-recreation-runs-in-your-browser-as-a-modern-web-app-open-source-project-brings-old-school-cde-interface-back-from-the-dead-and-features-class/ -
Tom’s Hardware: You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum — Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games. “The Interim Computer Museum (ICM) and SDF.org have made 28 vintage computer systems accessible online for free. There’s a plethora of old but gold – some legendary – systems available, so […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/25/toms-hardware-you-can-log-into-28-vintage-computer-systems-in-your-browser-for-free-thanks-to-the-interim-computer-museum-experience-legendary-oses-architectures-programming-languages/ -
The ephemera I hold onto... #Ubuntu #PowerPC #VintageSoftware #Linux
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (2013)
https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/
#HackerNews #AdobePhotoshop #SourceCode #ComputerHistory #TechHistory #VintageSoftware #CreativeSoftware
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The Register: Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads. “Legacy Update has for years been a tremendously useful site and tool for those wanting to keep older versions of Windows alive and in active use. The site has updated its archive of files that Microsoft used to make available for free download in the official Download Center, but has in its finite wisdom removed.”
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TechSpot: Classic 3D Maze screensaver from Windows 95 is now fully playable. “The original 3D Maze allowed a ‘player’ to navigate through a randomly generated maze, which impressed many users experiencing Windows 95 for the first time. Earlier this year, a programmer decided to turn the tool into a fully playable game – a task that proved surprisingly straightforward.”
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#RetroPrograms #VintageSoftware #OldSchoolSoftware #RetroComputingSoftware #ClassicApplications #VintagePrograms #OldPrograms #LegacySoftware #SoftwareThrowback #RetroOS #VintageOS #ClassicOperatingSystems #OperatingSystemHistory #OldSchoolOS #LegacyOS #RetroComputingOS #SoftwareHistoryOS #SystemHistory #RetroSystemSoftware #VintageSystems
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Self-starting C64: BASIC Boot Maker 1.05 Reviewed
#Commodore64 #C64 #RetroComputing #BASIC #BBM #ProjectCDChronicles #VintageSoftware #8bit
https://theoasisbbs.com/self-starting-c64-basic-boot-maker-1-05-reviewed/?feed_id=5908&_unique_id=68f240e8659b7