Fantastic read about the history of our favorite key on the keyboard.

https://aresluna.org/the-day-return-became-enter/

#retrocomputing #keyboards

Having some more fun with #groff:

Writing letters with groff and an old printer

(Tell me if it’s annoying when I post links to my blog posts here. There are Atom feeds. I can’t gauge if this is being frowned upon or not. Last time I asked, it was fine. 🤔)

#RetroComputing

This is notable but I haven't seen it reported elsewhere: the pioneering blogging platform Typepad is shutting down in a month. Another piece of the early web is vanishing.

https://disassociated.com/blog-publishing-platform-typepad-closing-30-september-2025

Cc @Jayhoffmann @write_as

#blogging #blogs #retrocomputing

Fantastic read about the history of our favorite key on the keyboard.

https://aresluna.org/the-day-return-became-enter/

#retrocomputing #keyboards

Well I guess I am learning about MSX computers now

#retrocomputing #msx

Amazing. A map showing every page of BYTE magazine.

"This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of final edition (bottom right)."

https://byte.tsundoku.io/

#Computers#Magazines#Byte#RetroComputing#ComputerHistory

BBC News trolling us this morning with a feature about 30 years since the launch if Windows 95…with a Macintosh SE 🤨

It’s the NES cartridge in the SNES all over again.

#bbc#BBCNews#RetroComputing #windows95

BBC News trolling us this morning with a feature about 30 years since the launch if Windows 95…with a Macintosh SE 🤨

It’s the NES cartridge in the SNES all over again.

#bbc#BBCNews#RetroComputing #windows95

Motif: When Linux's Best GUI Toolkit Cost $150/User

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qtt1b1ZE6sc

#motif #linux #retrocomputing

Protip! If you have a DVD rom drive that will read pressed DVDs but not burnt ones, you can adjust some pot meters and then it won't read pressed DVDs anymore either!

Follow me for more pro tips

#retrocomputing

Motif: When Linux's Best GUI Toolkit Cost $150/User

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qtt1b1ZE6sc

#motif #linux #retrocomputing

Always love it when creators put such incredible work into a retro computing recreation. Unlikely to get approval from the big A but check it out none the less!

https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/de0eda3f-84aa-4cfa-9fab-c9eb155ada80
#retrocomputing #lego #apple #fishbowl

Always love it when creators put such incredible work into a retro computing recreation. Unlikely to get approval from the big A but check it out none the less!

https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/de0eda3f-84aa-4cfa-9fab-c9eb155ada80
#retrocomputing #lego #apple #fishbowl

Coding for speed on 6502

(1st version: ~200 cycles)
(2nd version: 38 cycles)
(3rd version: 12 cycles)
(4th version: 4 cycles, but requires 256 bytes of memory)
#RetroComputing

Using LLMs to chat with books and documents? That's so 1978.

In the 1970s the HELPSYS facility of Interlisp-10 let you interrogate the 700+ pages Interlisp Reference Manual via an English like syntax. You could run queries on topics and system functions such as TELL ME ABOUT EVAL or TELL ME ABOUT THE 2ND ARG OF CHANGEPROP and HELPSYS would print the relevant information or section of the manual. Here's an example session from the 1978 edition of the manual:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp/Interlisp-Oct_1978.pdf#page=474

Interlisp-10 was the Interlisp implementation for the PDP-10.

#interlisp #documentation #lisp #retrocomputing

Retrouvez sa doc : retronik.silicium.org

#retrocomputing #heritage #toulouse
#vintagecomputer #geek #oldcomputer

Retrouvez sa doc : retronik.silicium.org

#retrocomputing #heritage #toulouse
#vintagecomputer #geek #oldcomputer

Announcing Total Reprint: 20th century Print Shop for the 21st century Apple ][

https://archive.org/details/TotalReprint

Total Reprint is:
• The Print Shop Color (1986)
• all Broderbund graphic libraries
• additional openly licensed 3rd party graphics and fonts
• a unified UI for selecting 3rd party graphics and borders
• installable on any ProDOS hard drive, in any directory
• still runnable on any Apple ][ with 64K

Thanks @a2_qkumba and @init_hello for everything.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

The ZX Spectrum Analyser is a powerful tool that allows ZX Spectrum games to be analysed, disassembled, and annotated, to discover how they work.
https://colourclash.co.uk/spectrum-analyser/

It's a seriously cool tool with lots of ideas to borrow from, I also see many ideas I had over the years have already been implemented, so I take that as validation, and it helps me identify what works and what doesn't without even having to write any code.

Docs (PDF)
https://colourclash.co.uk/SpectrumAnalyserInstructions.pdf

Alpha download:
https://colourclash.co.uk/SpectrumAnalyser.zip

Video guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY6pZehr8uc

#ZXSpectrum#Spectrum#Speccy #retrocomputing #z80