Alberto Martinez RetroTinkerer
@black92rs74.bsky.social
Used to post Retro PC stuff at my old twitter account @albpro then in @Black92RS74 also at Youtube as RetroTinkerer (I'm deleting all my content from both accounts in Twitter)
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I want to continue a thread I started "a while ago" at Twitter with some of the smallest and underrated youtubers I follow thanks to my passion, the retro computing world, with no particular order off course.
Please let me know about your favourite small and unknown channels:
#RetroComputing
Please let me know about your favourite small and unknown channels:
#RetroComputing
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Decomposition! My job is to stop it but I saw it regularly back in the days when I worked in the mortuary. This isn’t real, however, but made of wax in the late 17thC. It was produced by a Sicilian wax modeler named Gaetano Giulio Zumbo for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo de Mexico.
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Decomposition! My job is to stop it but I saw it regularly back in the days when I worked in the mortuary. This isn’t real, however, but made of wax in the late 17thC. It was produced by a Sicilian wax modeler named Gaetano Giulio Zumbo for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo de Mexico.
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Bought this Virtual Boy a few years ago as a backup but never tried it out. Turns out it works with no screen artifact at all, better than my first one with one dead line in one eye😂
However it takes many seconds to start booting. Is this normal? I really don’t remember🤔
However it takes many seconds to start booting. Is this normal? I really don’t remember🤔
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bought this Virtual Boy a few years ago as a backup but never tried it out. Turns out it works with no screen artifact at all, better than my first one with one dead line in one eye😂
However it takes many seconds to start booting. Is this normal? I really don’t remember🤔
However it takes many seconds to start booting. Is this normal? I really don’t remember🤔
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A Japanese game studio now asks art applicants to draw a picture during the interview process, to prove they don't just use generative AI.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-japan...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-japan...
A Japanese game studio now asks art applicants to draw a picture during the interview, to prove they don’t just use GenAI | VGC
But the unnamed studio’s source warns that their fight against GenAI is weakening…
www.videogameschronicle.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A Japanese game studio now asks art applicants to draw a picture during the interview process, to prove they don't just use generative AI.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-japan...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-japan...
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Trump's screening process for immigrants might seem harsh, but it's also incomprehensible
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Trump's screening process for immigrants might seem harsh, but it's also incomprehensible
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The Shuttle XPC arrived, I've cleaned the aluminium case and it's actually in really nice condition 👍
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Shuttle XPC arrived, I've cleaned the aluminium case and it's actually in really nice condition 👍
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Today’s project is this Visiontek Xtasy GeForce4 MX420 - on PCI!👀
It was not booting when it arrived. I flashed in a later one and it started booting, with heavy artifacts.
I felt it could be RAM issues, so here’s some soldering around to find out🤔
It was not booting when it arrived. I flashed in a later one and it started booting, with heavy artifacts.
I felt it could be RAM issues, so here’s some soldering around to find out🤔
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Today’s project is this Visiontek Xtasy GeForce4 MX420 - on PCI!👀
It was not booting when it arrived. I flashed in a later one and it started booting, with heavy artifacts.
I felt it could be RAM issues, so here’s some soldering around to find out🤔
It was not booting when it arrived. I flashed in a later one and it started booting, with heavy artifacts.
I felt it could be RAM issues, so here’s some soldering around to find out🤔
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"What Fulnecky’s mother is saying out loud — that trans people shouldn’t be allowed to teach at all — is what this movement actually wants."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"What Fulnecky’s mother is saying out loud — that trans people shouldn’t be allowed to teach at all — is what this movement actually wants."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
WTF, the belief that "White People" are somehow a kind of people separated from the rest of humanity and that skin colour is something that define and separate us is next level ignorance... I have to believe this shit in the year 2025 come from someone very intelligent?
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
WTF, the belief that "White People" are somehow a kind of people separated from the rest of humanity and that skin colour is something that define and separate us is next level ignorance... I have to believe this shit in the year 2025 come from someone very intelligent?
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Obligatory info that the MT32-Pi project has been converted to wavetable daugherboard form by this great channel:
youtu.be/xC-qhcPUeRs
youtu.be/xC-qhcPUeRs
WavetablePi: Wavetable Midi module powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
YouTube video by Scrap Computing
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Obligatory info that the MT32-Pi project has been converted to wavetable daugherboard form by this great channel:
youtu.be/xC-qhcPUeRs
youtu.be/xC-qhcPUeRs
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Side effects of Childhood Vaccination include Adulthood.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Side effects of Childhood Vaccination include Adulthood.
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Just what the MAHA followers meant by making America healthy again?
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Just what the MAHA followers meant by making America healthy again?
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ORIGINAL ART SALE
- A4 Portraits, archival inks on bristol board.
- £70 for either of the Megatron or Primal pairs (robot and beast mode)
OTHERWISE
£40 each, plus shipping (can send worldwide)
- Check reply for sale status
- DM if interested.
Reposts appreciated.
#Transformers #ArtSale #Maccadam
- A4 Portraits, archival inks on bristol board.
- £70 for either of the Megatron or Primal pairs (robot and beast mode)
OTHERWISE
£40 each, plus shipping (can send worldwide)
- Check reply for sale status
- DM if interested.
Reposts appreciated.
#Transformers #ArtSale #Maccadam
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
ORIGINAL ART SALE
- A4 Portraits, archival inks on bristol board.
- £70 for either of the Megatron or Primal pairs (robot and beast mode)
OTHERWISE
£40 each, plus shipping (can send worldwide)
- Check reply for sale status
- DM if interested.
Reposts appreciated.
#Transformers #ArtSale #Maccadam
- A4 Portraits, archival inks on bristol board.
- £70 for either of the Megatron or Primal pairs (robot and beast mode)
OTHERWISE
£40 each, plus shipping (can send worldwide)
- Check reply for sale status
- DM if interested.
Reposts appreciated.
#Transformers #ArtSale #Maccadam
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artists and designers using ai like
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
artists and designers using ai like
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What a nice surprise.
South Korean animated film Lost in Starlight (2025) is a pure love story, born from the encounter between an aspiring astronaut who dreams of going to Mars and a musician in a fairly realistic 2050s setting. It's beautiful, as is the animation, and it's a bit of a tearjerker. 😁
South Korean animated film Lost in Starlight (2025) is a pure love story, born from the encounter between an aspiring astronaut who dreams of going to Mars and a musician in a fairly realistic 2050s setting. It's beautiful, as is the animation, and it's a bit of a tearjerker. 😁
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
What a nice surprise.
South Korean animated film Lost in Starlight (2025) is a pure love story, born from the encounter between an aspiring astronaut who dreams of going to Mars and a musician in a fairly realistic 2050s setting. It's beautiful, as is the animation, and it's a bit of a tearjerker. 😁
South Korean animated film Lost in Starlight (2025) is a pure love story, born from the encounter between an aspiring astronaut who dreams of going to Mars and a musician in a fairly realistic 2050s setting. It's beautiful, as is the animation, and it's a bit of a tearjerker. 😁
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A very cursed Socket 478 Shuttle XPC SS51G 😲😅🤣
It seems someone couldn't find a Flex ATX PSU and retrofitted a regular ATX PSU instead, by taking its guts and fitting them inside 😅
It seems someone couldn't find a Flex ATX PSU and retrofitted a regular ATX PSU instead, by taking its guts and fitting them inside 😅
November 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A very cursed Socket 478 Shuttle XPC SS51G 😲😅🤣
It seems someone couldn't find a Flex ATX PSU and retrofitted a regular ATX PSU instead, by taking its guts and fitting them inside 😅
It seems someone couldn't find a Flex ATX PSU and retrofitted a regular ATX PSU instead, by taking its guts and fitting them inside 😅
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🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...
After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here.
In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...
After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here.
In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
YouTube video by /noclip
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...
After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here.
In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...
After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here.
In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.
What do you people think about retro brighting? After watching Shelby video the only thing that came clear to me is that, it will make things worse in the long run even though it might look fine immediately after it's done.
youtu.be/_n_WpjseCXA?...
youtu.be/_n_WpjseCXA?...
Retrobright Damages Plastics - 10 Year Test
YouTube video by Tech Tangents
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
What do you people think about retro brighting? After watching Shelby video the only thing that came clear to me is that, it will make things worse in the long run even though it might look fine immediately after it's done.
youtu.be/_n_WpjseCXA?...
youtu.be/_n_WpjseCXA?...
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Gigabyte GA-486AM/S v 2.21
theretroweb.com/motherboards...
AMD Am5x86 P75-133
www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80486/A...
2x32 MB Kingston 72pin FPM RAM
1024 kB cache
was shelved and I believe is currently jumpered wrong but I'll resurrect it for some FAST 486 goodness!
theretroweb.com/motherboards...
AMD Am5x86 P75-133
www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80486/A...
2x32 MB Kingston 72pin FPM RAM
1024 kB cache
was shelved and I believe is currently jumpered wrong but I'll resurrect it for some FAST 486 goodness!
November 30, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Gigabyte GA-486AM/S v 2.21
theretroweb.com/motherboards...
AMD Am5x86 P75-133
www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80486/A...
2x32 MB Kingston 72pin FPM RAM
1024 kB cache
was shelved and I believe is currently jumpered wrong but I'll resurrect it for some FAST 486 goodness!
theretroweb.com/motherboards...
AMD Am5x86 P75-133
www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80486/A...
2x32 MB Kingston 72pin FPM RAM
1024 kB cache
was shelved and I believe is currently jumpered wrong but I'll resurrect it for some FAST 486 goodness!
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If AI usage is so ubiquitous, then why are you opposed to disclosing it? It's not like disclosure costs you anything or is a hard thing to do. Seems more like you know that not everyone uses AI, and that you want to disguise the fact that you do because you know it's a deal breaker for many buyers.
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
If AI usage is so ubiquitous, then why are you opposed to disclosing it? It's not like disclosure costs you anything or is a hard thing to do. Seems more like you know that not everyone uses AI, and that you want to disguise the fact that you do because you know it's a deal breaker for many buyers.
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If you tell people to learn to draw:
"Noooo, too hard, takes too much, I can't 😭😭😭"
If they want something drawn:
"Lol, it's just a drawing, that ain't too hard"
"Noooo, too hard, takes too much, I can't 😭😭😭"
If they want something drawn:
"Lol, it's just a drawing, that ain't too hard"
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If you tell people to learn to draw:
"Noooo, too hard, takes too much, I can't 😭😭😭"
If they want something drawn:
"Lol, it's just a drawing, that ain't too hard"
"Noooo, too hard, takes too much, I can't 😭😭😭"
If they want something drawn:
"Lol, it's just a drawing, that ain't too hard"
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I bought myself a Christmas gift keyboard and this one was way worse than the ebay seller advertised. Someone seems to have spilled water on the thing and 9 or 10 switches are dead. This keyboard is extremely valuable and uncommon so I'm going to try to save this thing even though I got ripped off.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I bought myself a Christmas gift keyboard and this one was way worse than the ebay seller advertised. Someone seems to have spilled water on the thing and 9 or 10 switches are dead. This keyboard is extremely valuable and uncommon so I'm going to try to save this thing even though I got ripped off.
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"177: 'It's not a crime if it's a game' has now reached 1000 views
Though it's a far cry from the 22k the original received, I'm glad that my message can still get out there in some fashion. Thank you to all who have shared and watched my work!
Though it's a far cry from the 22k the original received, I'm glad that my message can still get out there in some fashion. Thank you to all who have shared and watched my work!
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"177: 'It's not a crime if it's a game' has now reached 1000 views
Though it's a far cry from the 22k the original received, I'm glad that my message can still get out there in some fashion. Thank you to all who have shared and watched my work!
Though it's a far cry from the 22k the original received, I'm glad that my message can still get out there in some fashion. Thank you to all who have shared and watched my work!
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She really said, “Now try that shit with me! Witcha bitch ass!”
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
She really said, “Now try that shit with me! Witcha bitch ass!”