Ian Scott
@polpo.org
I'm currently cooking up PicoIDE, a hardware IDE/ATAPI emulator, launching on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide
I also made PicoGUS: https://picog.us
Also on Fedi at https://chaos.social/@polpo
In Colorado, USA
I also made PicoGUS: https://picog.us
Also on Fedi at https://chaos.social/@polpo
In Colorado, USA
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Ian Scott
@polpo.org
· Nov 19
PicoIDE
An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers
www.crowdsupply.com
It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
Perfectly normal cooling solution
December 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Perfectly normal cooling solution
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If you've curious how the effect was accomplished, you no longer have to wonder...
youtu.be/JHqiiPGPHFY
(Any help signal boosting this to #StarTrek fans would be most appreciated... this video was a lot of work!)
youtu.be/JHqiiPGPHFY
(Any help signal boosting this to #StarTrek fans would be most appreciated... this video was a lot of work!)
How the Macintosh Plus helped make Star Trek history! #VFX
YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
If you've curious how the effect was accomplished, you no longer have to wonder...
youtu.be/JHqiiPGPHFY
(Any help signal boosting this to #StarTrek fans would be most appreciated... this video was a lot of work!)
youtu.be/JHqiiPGPHFY
(Any help signal boosting this to #StarTrek fans would be most appreciated... this video was a lot of work!)
My kids got me one of those weird AMD BC-250 (aka PS5 APU) single board computers for Xmas. Can’t wait to play with this! It’s so odd, I love it.
December 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My kids got me one of those weird AMD BC-250 (aka PS5 APU) single board computers for Xmas. Can’t wait to play with this! It’s so odd, I love it.
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The true spirit of the season ⛄️☃️
December 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The true spirit of the season ⛄️☃️
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Interesting to see that 'Shadows of the Wind' prototype in the Sega Channel documentary. When I joined Images/Climax in the early '90s I played that demo and wrote some test music for it, but didn't get around to putting them onto the Genesis in the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh7s...
'Shadows of the Wind' test music
YouTube video by 4mat
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Interesting to see that 'Shadows of the Wind' prototype in the Sega Channel documentary. When I joined Images/Climax in the early '90s I played that demo and wrote some test music for it, but didn't get around to putting them onto the Genesis in the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh7s...
Cool, my shipper replaces Chinese characters with ????s. Nice finding this out only after paying for the label
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Cool, my shipper replaces Chinese characters with ????s. Nice finding this out only after paying for the label
Playing my Global Communication vinyl boxset while writing copy for the PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign, starting with Pentamerous Metamorphosis. What a masterpiece. The boxset is stupid expensive on Discogs now, but I’ve been in a “enjoy the things you have instead of being precious about them” mood
December 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Playing my Global Communication vinyl boxset while writing copy for the PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign, starting with Pentamerous Metamorphosis. What a masterpiece. The boxset is stupid expensive on Discogs now, but I’ve been in a “enjoy the things you have instead of being precious about them” mood
Just smashed my previous personal best in Tetris DX with 1,410,380. I got back into it thanks to @mousebitelabs.bsky.social’s gaming club. This would have been good enough for the WR for a brief moment of time in 2007 😅
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Just smashed my previous personal best in Tetris DX with 1,410,380. I got back into it thanks to @mousebitelabs.bsky.social’s gaming club. This would have been good enough for the WR for a brief moment of time in 2007 😅
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“In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference.”
groups.google.com/a/list.nist....
groups.google.com/a/list.nist....
Primary time scale failure at NIST Boulder campus; significant impact on NTP services
groups.google.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference.”
groups.google.com/a/list.nist....
groups.google.com/a/list.nist....
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Who coined "Metroidvania"? It wasn't @jparish.bsky.social, and he'll be the first to tell you. Besides, there are far more interesting questions, like: How did it spread? Evolve? And what's it got to do with rickrolling?
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
The History Of The Word "Metroidvania" And How It Spread
YouTube video by Critical Kate (of A Critical Hit!)
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Who coined "Metroidvania"? It wasn't @jparish.bsky.social, and he'll be the first to tell you. Besides, there are far more interesting questions, like: How did it spread? Evolve? And what's it got to do with rickrolling?
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
Reminiscing about the first CD I burned in 1997, like normal people do
The first disc I burned with it, a rip of Wipeout XL for PS1 on a Verbatim blue azo dye disc, still reads fine in the modded PS1 I still have. The authoring program was super clunky and I got the audio tracks out of order so when it says it’s playing Firestarter it actually plays We Have Explosive
December 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reminiscing about the first CD I burned in 1997, like normal people do
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dual cpu abit bp6 running beos with bebox style blinkenlights on an x86 over smbus.
December 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
dual cpu abit bp6 running beos with bebox style blinkenlights on an x86 over smbus.
Finally cleared away enough junk in my basement lair to make the DOS/SGI and Amiga corners usable again. I've been enjoying playing multichannel modules in Cubic Player on the PC and some Amiga musicdisks that happen to run on on my NTSC Amiga 1000
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Finally cleared away enough junk in my basement lair to make the DOS/SGI and Amiga corners usable again. I've been enjoying playing multichannel modules in Cubic Player on the PC and some Amiga musicdisks that happen to run on on my NTSC Amiga 1000
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Is this acceptable for #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing in 2026?
December 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Is this acceptable for #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing in 2026?
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it's messed up how "there existed a fully functional Michael Jordan-based web browser for Sega Genesis" is just a tiny little fraction of this momentous release. Outstanding work.
December 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
it's messed up how "there existed a fully functional Michael Jordan-based web browser for Sega Genesis" is just a tiny little fraction of this momentous release. Outstanding work.
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Got a new answering machine. The Western Electric model 1-B from 1955. Still had the original outgoing announcement. Sadly no incoming messages though. Its all tube and has a tone wheel like a B-3 organ for the beep.
December 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Got a new answering machine. The Western Electric model 1-B from 1955. Still had the original outgoing announcement. Sadly no incoming messages though. Its all tube and has a tone wheel like a B-3 organ for the beep.
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Take a deep dive with me into the world of 8mm film and why it's so challenging to digitize these old home movies. 🎞️
This video also includes an in-depth hardware review of the Kodak Reels Digitizer and some hacks to try and make it suck less.
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztzo...
#8mm #film
This video also includes an in-depth hardware review of the Kodak Reels Digitizer and some hacks to try and make it suck less.
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztzo...
#8mm #film
Is Kodak's $400 8mm film digitizer worth it? - Full Review & Firmware Mods + Hacks
YouTube video by Mac84
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Take a deep dive with me into the world of 8mm film and why it's so challenging to digitize these old home movies. 🎞️
This video also includes an in-depth hardware review of the Kodak Reels Digitizer and some hacks to try and make it suck less.
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztzo...
#8mm #film
This video also includes an in-depth hardware review of the Kodak Reels Digitizer and some hacks to try and make it suck less.
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztzo...
#8mm #film
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need ambient music now? I got just the thing
live 486 jukebox with a picoGUS
live 486 jukebox with a picoGUS
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
need ambient music now? I got just the thing
live 486 jukebox with a picoGUS
live 486 jukebox with a picoGUS
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Finally got the #TinyTapeout 8 ASIC with a couple of my designs on it.
When Efabless shut down we thought these chips were lost, but Tiny Tapeout managed to get hold of them and ship them out!
This design calculates the Mandelbrot fractal, racing the beam style. It’s clocked at 100MHz.
When Efabless shut down we thought these chips were lost, but Tiny Tapeout managed to get hold of them and ship them out!
This design calculates the Mandelbrot fractal, racing the beam style. It’s clocked at 100MHz.
December 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Finally got the #TinyTapeout 8 ASIC with a couple of my designs on it.
When Efabless shut down we thought these chips were lost, but Tiny Tapeout managed to get hold of them and ship them out!
This design calculates the Mandelbrot fractal, racing the beam style. It’s clocked at 100MHz.
When Efabless shut down we thought these chips were lost, but Tiny Tapeout managed to get hold of them and ship them out!
This design calculates the Mandelbrot fractal, racing the beam style. It’s clocked at 100MHz.
I spent today modifying toys so they can be used by children with disabilities at Santa’s Little Hackers. What a cool group that puts on this event! A huge room with people sewing, disassembling, soldering, and testing adapted toys. www.santaslittlehackers.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I spent today modifying toys so they can be used by children with disabilities at Santa’s Little Hackers. What a cool group that puts on this event! A huge room with people sewing, disassembling, soldering, and testing adapted toys. www.santaslittlehackers.com
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Super excited to work on this Fujitsu FM Towns II UG20 computer/game console thing. I had never even heard of it before someone contacted me to work on theirs. Saturday's noon eastern stream will be Part 1: disassembling the thing in preparation for recapping. youtube.com/live/6BAx3hp...
Disassembling a super rare (at least for US) Fujitsu FM Towns II UG20. Part 1: Prep for recapping
YouTube video by BigBadBench
youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Super excited to work on this Fujitsu FM Towns II UG20 computer/game console thing. I had never even heard of it before someone contacted me to work on theirs. Saturday's noon eastern stream will be Part 1: disassembling the thing in preparation for recapping. youtube.com/live/6BAx3hp...