Tagged “retro-computing”
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.plan
Read a live feed of old-school .plan files where people post short status notes and thoughts, browsable on the web or vi…
128k
A detective game where you investigate and decrypt an old Macintosh, using clues scattered across the real internet to u…
16colo.rs
Browse decades of ANSI and ASCII art from the BBS underground, with artpacks, e-mags and artists from the early 1990s to…
19100
A retro computer graphics site of POV-Ray raytraced scenes made with old versions of the software, plus guides to compil…
27 Years Later the Psion 3a Is Still Wonderful
A fond look at the Psion 3a pocket computer rediscovered in a cupboard, still working after 27 years, and why its keyboa…
64 Yourself
Drop a photo onto the screen and 64 Yourself converts it into authentic Commodore 64 graphics with the machine's limited…
80.style
A blogging platform dressed as an 80s computer terminal with a text-mode screen, retro palette and keyboard navigation,…
8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators
The story behind 8088 MPH, a legendary demo that coaxes hundreds of colours, 3D effects and polyphonic music out of a st…
84-24
A beautifully designed scrolling tale of one developer's midlife quest to find and restore an original 1984 Macintosh, f…
8BitMUSH: The ANSI Art Game
A browser editor for drawing classic BBS-style ANSI art with the old block characters and 16-color palette, plus a galle…
A Communist Apple II
An engineering archaeology tale about a Cold War era Apple II clone, and how an old machine was tested for years without…
geeksjournal1976.blogspot.com
Internet Culture
A Geek's Journal, 1976
What if there had been blogs in 1976? This journal imagines one, written day by day by a teenage geek obsessed with elec…
A Real-Time 3D Shader on the Game Boy Color
A tinkerer pushes a Game Boy Color to render a real-time 3D shaded scene, explaining the math, the workflow and the tric…
A Requiem for a Dying Operating System
A tongue-in-cheek 1994 verse lament for the VMS operating system, sent to the Unix-Haters Handbook editors and preserved…
davidweiss.blogspot.com
Tech
A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab
A 2006 insider's walk through the lab where Microsoft tested Office for Mac, with photos of rows of vintage Macs and sto…
AaronOS
A web-based desktop operating system with windows, apps and settings running entirely in the browser, a one-person tribu…
AcadLISP Playground
An AutoLISP interpreter built in Rust and WebAssembly with an in-browser editor, example programs and SVG output, revivi…
Amiga Graphics Archive
A gallery of Commodore Amiga artwork and game graphics, celebrating the machine and its custom chips through pixel art o…
Amstrad
A look back at Amstrad, the British electronics brand, with a catalogue of its hi-fi, home computers, word processors, f…
Apple 1js
A working Apple 1 emulator in the browser: type into the original Woz Monitor, load BASIC and run programs on a faithful…
Apple II History: The Apple-1
A detailed chapter on the Apple-1, from Wozniak's homebrew design and the Byte Shop order to how the board was built and…
BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive
Archive of the 1980s BBC Computer Literacy Project, with hundreds of TV clips about early home computing plus BBC Micro…
Bedrock
An 8-bit virtual computing system built so the same programs can run on any device, with a deliberately tiny specificati…
Building a Homebrew Video Game Console
An illustrated write-up of designing and building a retro-style video game console from scratch, covering the hardware c…
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