Tagged “retro-computing”
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Sega AI Computer
A deep dive into Sega's obscure Japanese educational AI Computer, with specs, the touch-pad keyboard, software and scans…
Shredz64
A Guitar Hero-style rhythm game for the Commodore 64, complete with an adapter that lets a PlayStation guitar controller…
Simone's Blog
Playful hardware and software hacking write-ups, like reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker, building a 2FA app…
Simple CPU Design
A hobbyist's tour of designing a tiny CPU from scratch, with FPGA builds, blinking LEDs, retro computing history and ste…
skeletal dos dreams - DISK 1
A surreal Bitsy piece styled like an old DOS disk, with music remixed from Brian Eno's Windows 95 sounds and a dreamlike…
Snowdrop OS
A homebrew operating system written from scratch in assembly, with its own GUI, BASIC interpreter, games, apps and a dev…
Space Invaders in C
A write-up of si78c, a C reimplementation of the 1978 Space Invaders arcade game that reproduces the original machine's…
Sphere Computers
A deep archive of the Sphere, a forgotten 1975 Motorola 6800 personal computer, with its history, photos, scanned manual…
Stone Tools
A blog exploring retro productivity software from the 8 and 16-bit era, like Lotus Improv on the NeXT, with hands-on dee…
System Beeps by shiru8bit
An album of 23 catchy chiptune tracks composed for the original IBM PC beeper speaker, wringing melodies out of one-bit…
Tandy Computer Whiz Kids Comics
Full scans of all eight Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comic books from the 1980s, where TRS-80 wielding teens foil kidnappers…
Tejotron
A virtual breadboard in the browser, inspired by Ben Eater's 6502 computer series, for wiring up chips and circuits with…
Telehack
A simulation of a stylized 1985-1990 ARPANET and Usenet with over 26,000 simulated hosts, where you hack through a comma…
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Terminal Island
A blog dressed up as a command-line terminal: type help and commands at the prompt to list posts and read short reflecti…
Tetris Story by Vadim Gerasimov
A first-hand account of how Tetris was created in the Soviet Union in 1984-86, written by one of its original programmer…
The AARD Code and DR DOS
A forensic deep dive into the mysterious encrypted AARD code in Windows 3.1 betas that quietly checked for DR DOS, with…
The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
Did Apple deliberately hobble the IIGS to protect the Macintosh? A retro-computing deep dive tests the legend against ha…
The Cody Computer
An 8-bit home computer designed to be built as a DIY project, with full documentation, schematics, software and a commun…
The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close
A nostalgic look at the end of the American computer magazine, from buying Maximum PC at airport newsstands to what disa…
The Experience Longhorn Project
An archive that walks through Microsoft Longhorn, the ambitious Windows XP successor that collapsed in 2004, with build…
The Floppy Museum
A museum of floppy disks and obsolete media served from an old 286 PC booted entirely from a single 3.5-inch floppy, wit…
The greatest program ever written
A game programmer's short ode to David Horne's 1K ZX Chess, a playable chess program squeezed into the tiny memory of a…
The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 BASIC
An interactive essay where you build a Breakout game in Commodore 64 BASIC right in the browser, while exploring how old…
The MOnSter 6502
A working, transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS 6502 processor built from discrete components on a huge board, wi…
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