An #oldcomputerchallenge would be to go through the process of writing a program/game for an 8-bit micro without any other tools.
It would probably look like--
- a reference manual
- the micro setup itself
- paper and pens
I think that would be a lot of fun!
An #oldcomputerchallenge would be to go through the process of writing a program/game for an 8-bit micro without any other tools.
It would probably look like--
- a reference manual
- the micro setup itself
- paper and pens
I think that would be a lot of fun!
I've finalized the #oldcomputerchallenge write-up and updated the post.
https://www.talibov.xyz/posts/occ2025/
Key learning from the exercise:
1. That the modern web is the biggest constrain is not a meme
2. More power to Emacs, it's very transferable
3. I still don't know how do I get to South America once the internment starts.
I've finalized the #oldcomputerchallenge write-up and updated the post.
https://www.talibov.xyz/posts/occ2025/
Key learning from the exercise:
1. That the modern web is the biggest constrain is not a meme
2. More power to Emacs, it's very transferable
3. I still don't know how do I get to South America once the internment starts.
Posting from masto9 on my AMD K6-2! #oldcomputerchallenge #retrocomputing
New blog post:
OCC 2025 - I'm back on ICQ
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/07/occ-2025-i-m-back-on-icq/
Resurrecting a Sun SPARC station for day to day computing.
#oldcomputerchallenge #sparc #netbsd
https://retrobsd.ddns.net/nvdh7j.htm
Resurrecting a Sun SPARC station for day to day computing.
#oldcomputerchallenge #sparc #netbsd
https://retrobsd.ddns.net/nvdh7j.htm
After a veal roast and a bottle of espumante, the #oldcomputerchallenge of 2025 begins. #FreeBSD powers a 2003 notebook - and does it pretty well. A fun experience, indeed!
I've been thinking about participating in #oldcomputerchallenge and even restored my first PC. But then I had a thought, a strange one.
The thing is, my main desktop which I use for all my work basically IS an old computer (for a modern audience). It has a motherboard from 2011, my CPU is from 2012 (DDR3, yep) and the newest thing I have in my case is an SSD. All PCI-E ports including PCI-E 1.0 are already fried, so I can't even install a GPU. Integrated video core from Intel works just fine.
That's a strange story. In some way it defies the purpose and at the same time reasserts it: you CAN use an old computer for all your work. Sometimes you might even not notice that.
There is no challenge.
New blog post:
OCC 2025 - Setup and Idea
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/07/occ-2025-setup-and-idea/
Ready for #oldcomputerchallenge 💪
The computer is a HP T5710 running Windows 98, there's some good information on it on Phils Computer Lab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX2_dm9or0Q
The monitor is not the brightest anymore, but it'll do.
A spectacular finding in the barn (literally barn, a tractor is parked nearby)! I might join the #oldcomputerchallenge , casually though - this species is not that old, nor am I competent enough to deploy something too obscure, and on vacation the usecase is so trivial. But look how chunky the boi is - ThickPads are dwarfed.
In my warmup for #OldComputerChallenge 25, I dusted off ol' pal #RaspberryPi model B and burned #NetBSD 10 on an SD card to set it up.
It all went well (slow, but hey) but one thing that I still can't get around (that I didn't experience so much last time I tried it) is the console. Control chars get printed instead of arrow and home/end keys, no colors, etc. Hate to say it, but all in all, it feels backwards compared to a modern, full-fledged console environment of #FreeBSD or Linux. And it's starting to wear me out.
But I have a feeling that this is somehow my fault for not configuring the console properly or using the right output or something. I never had to deal with this before, so anybody knows how I can configure this so I can have a modern env in NetBSD?
