Tagged “retro-computing”
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The Restart Page
A page that lets you reboot vintage operating systems on demand, replaying their classic startup screens and sounds for…
The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written
A tour of an unusually dark and funny computer manual unlike any other, with excerpts that show off its odd voice and hu…
The Tube Computer
A modern 8-bit computer built with recycled 1950s vacuum tubes, presented as technical art with photos, build details an…
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
A detective-style blog post that digs into why HP shipped laptops with a strange FreeDOS option, with screenshots and th…
The Virtual OS Museum
A museum of over 1,700 operating systems from 1948 to today, pre-installed in a single Linux VM, with screenshots and no…
The Wireless
A retro tech weblog about adventures with vintage Apple Macs, old hardware and niche software, styled like a classic 199…
The X Window System Boot Stipple
A nostalgic look at the grey checkerboard stipple and X-shaped cursor that greeted Unix users at startup, and how that t…
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
A loving history of the Zilog Z80 microprocessor on its 50th anniversary, covering its design, the home computers and co…
Tiny Emulators
Run classic 8-bit home computers like the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and VIC-20 right in your browser, with built-in…
Transputer Emulator
A Transputer emulator written in JavaScript that runs the author's own 1995 operating system in the browser, fast enough…
Turbo Pascal Compiler
The story of two friends' 1989 Turbo Pascal graphics programs found on old diskettes, and the browser-based compiler wri…
Unix Magic Poster Annotations
An interactive guide to the classic UNIX Magic poster where you hover each marker to open annotations explaining the com…
Unix Magic Poster Annotations
An interactive annotation project that maps the illustrated items on the classic Unix Magic poster and explains the in-j…
Videocard Virtual Museum
A personal museum of vintage graphics cards with photos, chip details and drivers for hundreds of boards, from early ISA…
Vintage Computing and Gaming
A retrogaming and retrocomputing blogazine running since 2005, with articles on classic games, vintage computers, and ob…
ViperCard
An open source re-creation of Apple's 1987 HyperCard that runs in the browser, letting you paint, script and browse blac…
VirtualBeeb
A 3D model of a BBC Micro computer you can actually use in the browser, loading classics like Elite, Chuckie Egg and Rep…
Visual Basic 6 in the Browser
A nostalgic rebuild of the Visual Basic 6 form designer and IDE that runs entirely in your browser, so you can drag toge…
Viznut
The personal site of Finnish demoscene artist Viznut, with essays on permacomputing and computer culture, the Unscii bit…
Waiting at the Oregon Trail River for 14272 Years
A playful retro-computing experiment asking whether the Oregon Trail can be won by waiting at a river crossing for mille…
What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?
A deep dive into why Japan's own computers, such as the PC-98, X68000 and FM Towns, thrived in the 1980s and 90s and the…
What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
A personal look at why the Windows 2000 interface felt so good, from its crisp beveled controls and consistent behavior…
Why is 56k the fastest dialup modem speed?
A clear, nostalgic explanation of why dial-up modems topped out at 56k, covering phone line bandwidth, sampling limits a…
Win32.run
A Windows XP desktop in the browser with a working file system, XP-style open and save dialogs, and third-party programs…
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