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@masinter ☝️ Let's celebrate the 50° anniversary of BITBLT with an Interlisp implementation of Conway's game of life based on BITBLT. In the above toot Larry Masinter, who wrote the Interlisp code, hints at how it works. The running program looks like this:
https://github.com/orgs/Interlisp/discussions/1097#discussioncomment-10304486
📢 NetBSD 11.0 release is imminent!
Release is getting a massive upgrade. Community need your help to ensure it runs smoothly on everything from modern servers to vintage workstations.
✨ What to test:
• Improved RISC-V Support
• ZFS & Kernel stability
• Your favorite pkgsrc tools
🔥 The Challenge: #RunOnAnything. Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!
⬇️ Grab the latest NetBSD 11 binaries here:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest
#NetBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Unix #BetaTesting #RetroComputing #RunBSD
I hope one day someone 3D models a recreation of the #toshiba #libretto 110CT case plastics that I can get 3D printed. They just...crumble. 😞
#retrocomputing
@masinter ☝️ Let's celebrate the 50° anniversary of BITBLT with an Interlisp implementation of Conway's game of life based on BITBLT. In the above toot Larry Masinter, who wrote the Interlisp code, hints at how it works. The running program looks like this:
https://github.com/orgs/Interlisp/discussions/1097#discussioncomment-10304486
Tim Bradshaw discusses the myths around Lisp Machines and why they were probably never competitive.
https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/11/18/the-lost-cause-of-the-lisp-machines
📢 NetBSD 11.0 release is imminent!
Release is getting a massive upgrade. Community need your help to ensure it runs smoothly on everything from modern servers to vintage workstations.
✨ What to test:
• Improved RISC-V Support
• ZFS & Kernel stability
• Your favorite pkgsrc tools
🔥 The Challenge: #RunOnAnything. Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!
⬇️ Grab the latest NetBSD 11 binaries here:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest
#NetBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Unix #BetaTesting #RetroComputing #RunBSD
Cross-platform GUI frameworks were hot in the 1990s. This review paper of platform-independent GUIs is interesting as it was published in January of 1995, just a few months before the original release of Java. The paper is a snapshot of the pre-Java market and covers mostly C/C++ products, plus one in Lisp (CLIM) and a couple based on Smalltalk.
Easily run old versions of UNIX for PDP-11 on modern hardware
Cross-platform GUI frameworks were hot in the 1990s. This review paper of platform-independent GUIs is interesting as it was published in January of 1995, just a few months before the original release of Java. The paper is a snapshot of the pre-Java market and covers mostly C/C++ products, plus one in Lisp (CLIM) and a couple based on Smalltalk.
Actor 4.x
｢ Actor, released by The Whitewater Group, Inc. and later Genesis Development Systems, is an object oriented programming language and environment similar to Smalltalk. It is a completely Windows-native environment, and was among the early applications written for Windows ｣
PicoIDE - an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator
｢ PicoIDE is a device that emulates IDE/ATAPI devices developed by Ian Scott, creator of PicoGUS ｣
Rest in peace, Rebecca Heineman. I wish I had known you more than just as a fan.
#RebeccaHeineman #AppleII #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageapple #Apple #RIP #computing #gaming #retrogaming #retrogames
Anyone in Melbourne this Sunday (23/11) and wondering what to do, well let me help you!
There will be a display of vintage computers at the Computer Swap Meet hosted at the Darebin Community Sports Stadium - 857 Plenty Rd, Reservoir.
It will be open to the public at 10am, I think it there is a $3 entry fee.
I'll be there with a couple of old computers, so say hi!
Rest in peace, Rebecca Heineman. I wish I had known you more than just as a fan.
#RebeccaHeineman #AppleII #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageapple #Apple #RIP #computing #gaming #retrogaming #retrogames
Quick #retrocomputing question...
Where's your nearest #floppy?! and what's on it!
Mine's a diagnostic floppy for a #compaq 286 laptop.
there's a stash of CitaNews at https://lwr.wtf/wiki/Newsletters
Citadel history thread LETS GO!
been racking my brain trying to remember what all the networked rooms were, here's a list from an amiga board in August 1991
Citadel style BBSs may not have been that popular overall, but they maintained pockets of rabid popularity in a variety of major cities
Citadel-86 gained its own federated networking as early as 1986, (a mere few years after FidoNet began!) quickly becoming a mainstay of many Citadel BBSs
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
This is still very much a work in progress, but it appears I've managed to shoehorn the latest version of Lua onto the TI-92+ graphing calculator.
Quick #retrocomputing question...
Where's your nearest #floppy?! and what's on it!
Mine's a diagnostic floppy for a #compaq 286 laptop.
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