iolar @iolar@zitidar.barsoom.cc

Remembering when #ByteMagazine carried water for #Microsoft's 1990s FUD: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1992-09

These days the #FreeBSD-derived #Darwin powering #Apple's operating systems has about the same installed base as #Windows. Adding the de facto Unix #Linux and derivatives like #Android easily eclipses Microsoft's efforts several times over.

#Unix #WindowsNT #RetroComputing

Dumping the ROM of a GBA game by crashing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-7PSmYYHF0

#arcade #videogames #retrogaming #nintendo

“A publisher told me that his (successful) business operated on the rule of thumb that 80% of books were not read by the purchaser - they were either gifts or found their way onto glass tables or dusty bookshelves

…That's why we like to say a record collection defines who you are, and a book collection defines who you really want to be.”

Will Page in the Winter 2023 issue of The Author

Any time someone posts #retrocomputing content:

DOS_deck is impressive, and incredibly handy if you want to play MS-DOS games in the comfort of your browser. Have a look: https://dosdeck.com/

#msdos #dos #retrogaming

Trebors 7800 ROM PROPack, the complete #Atari7800 console rom collection has been updated. Download v7.14 https://7800.8bitdev.org/index.php/Trebors_7800_ROM_PROPack #retrogames #retrogaming

I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Display votes with results in the notifications

- Improve single choice voting dialog

- Implemented multiple choice voting

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS

Gumbo 1994 #pixelart #retrogaming #typography

OH YEAH I ALMOST FORGOT TO POST ABOUT IT
since we're on the subject of Quake, they just released today another addon, downloadable through the ingame browser of the remasters, of a 5-map episode with a cool cyberpunk theme. It's related to the game Slave Zero X, and has custom weapons and enemies!
https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/article/new-add-on-episode-enyo-quake?linkId=100000235532596
#Quake #RetroGaming #BoomerShooters

for #throwbackthursday and because it's the 30th anniversary of #Doom this year - here's a little piece I did back when @foone got Doom to run on a pregnancy test's screen.

#retrogaming

An ode to the small internet:

gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~spring/phlog/2019-01-16__The_Small_Internet.txt

#gopher #gemini #finger #spartan #text #bbs #library #zine

The smolzine gemini capsule:

A small...oops, smol gemzine. Community oriented and focused on curating the fun, cool and thought-provoking things geminauts of all stripes are writing.
gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/

#gopher #gemini #finger #spartan #text #bbs #library #zine

#RealPrep: Caches of printed how-to books sealed, vacuumed, and with oxygen-eater packets in the bags with them are probably more valuable for long-term problems than you think.

Semjaza #BBS and #StrangerThings BBS are both back up (#mysticBBS-based)

#telnet and #ssh connections available on both. See image for addresses ports etc

What the CEO hears when you explain the security incident

I haven't reposted this in a while. If anyone needs a service manual or schematic for an old #arcade machine from the #70s #80s or #90s I have over 1,300 of them stored here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7FwUMAgjt39ckllTHpnX0p0MjA?resourcekey=0-ZdT8OMl1Eynp8xb0Y5ZbfA&usp=drive_link

Boosts welcome - it might help someone :-)

#retrogaming #retrocomputing