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Popful Mail (PC8801, 1992) (Source.)
An ad for the fantasy platformer Popful Mail. Top center is our heroine, Popful Mail, a cheerful red-headed swordswoman with elfin ears and a bindle on her sword. Top left is an inset of Tatto, the party magician, with a staff topped with a half-moon. Top right is an inset of Gaw, the party's scrungly dragon thing. Bottom left inset is Slick, a white-haired elf, the party explosive master, looking like a mad scientist. Bottom right inset is Glug, a heavyset dwarf, holding hammer and wrench. Top background is a watercolor painting of a forested swamp, with volcano and castle in the background; bottom background are screenshots (emphasizing the quality animation). Purchasing details appear page bottom (mail or fax, cash-on-delivery; 8700 yen).
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
ellafication.bsky.social
feeling good today!!
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
The Essential Software Company
A simple black-and-white catalog page for TRS 80 software. Titles include Robo Attack ("The game that talks!") with a screenshot like Robotron, Attack Force with a screenshot like Combat, Galaxy Invasion with a screenshot like Space Invaders, Gobble Man with no screenshot but a picture of a gremlin, Cosmic Fighter ("With Sound") showing a spaceship trying to dock, SuperNOVA (screenshot like Asteroids) whose ad copy outright states it's a copy of Asteroids for your TRS 80, "3D Adventures" with no screenshot, and "Asylum ("over 550 locatiosn!"). At the bottom, an order form, marked "All tapes 10 pounds ea - ASYLUM Tape 12 pounds"
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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THE OPTICAL FILE CABINET (Source.)
The cover from the June 1988 issue of Computer Magazine (the IEEE trade magazine) is a watercolor painting with possible digital touchups, showcasing the CD as an office building to indicate its use in business computing. Up top, the logo 'Computer' fills the cloudy sky. The bulk of the image is a idyllic city on a bay (get it? drive bay?). Cover left is the CD Tower (the parking lot and traffic cirlce around the base forms the "CD Drive"), which reflects the huge filing cabinet on top that forms the "Skyscraper" the parking lot surrounds. Individual cabinets in the skyscraper-cabinet are labelled things like Version Histories, File Archiving, Data Logging, and various cabinets are open to reveal the "workers" working in the "skyscraper" keeping books, working on easels, typing on fan-fold typewriters, and otherwise engaging in the world of business circa 1988. Cover right, the bay of the faux town has the headline story: "The Optical File Cabinet." Cover by Jay Simpson.
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
ellafication.bsky.social
can’t tell who’s a bot or not 🥹 luckily there’s way less here than on twt
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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merriam-webster.com
‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’

It was originally ‘ekename.’

‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”

Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.

Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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slimyswampghost.bsky.social
Burnt match
A lipless, toothy figure in a black coat. it's skin is bruise-yellow and green. its upper head is scorched black, its hair flows straight up, and it has scratchy "eyes" floating where real eyes should be. The background is reminiscent of flames
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
There's just something about red computers.
The Hit-Bit 10 is a MSX 1 computer, sold with Lode Runner and a BASIC manual. Unlike most coputers before or sense, the Hit-Bit 10 is a blazing cherry red.
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
The #1 independent VIC-20 full-line software publisher in the US is proud to announce 4 new Game Cartridges & 5 Home Appliances for the COMMODORE 64.
An ad for the company Creative Software. The four left boxes depict VIC20 cartridge games: a man in space for Moondust, giant robot wasps attacking buildings in Save New York, a UFO shooting at a fighter jet shooting at a satellite dish in Astroblitz, and a giant fly attacking a garbage truck in Trashman. All are marked "Joystick controller required." The five smaller applications on the side are a sports car on a jack named Car Costs, a car attached to a comically giant loan agreement named Loan Analyzer, a set of bar charts named Household Finance, a safe with valuables inset into a wall covered in floral wallpaper named Home Inventory, and a man leaning over and considering his computer named Decision Maker.
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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icantseehelp.bsky.social
experimenting with a #Scene artstyle !
#art
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Captain Claw (Monolith; Windows, 1997) (Source.)
A video game screenshot of a jungle level. A feline pirate in blue outfit dashes at an orange canine, his sword knocking the dog off the screen. Below, another dog and crates lie in wait; to the top right, four coins and a chalice float waiting pickup; above, a coin and a lizard statuette float. The top left reads 105415 treasures, 1 tesla coil; the top right reads 52 hearts, 14 shots, 2 lives. There is a checkpoint with a cat-skull-and-crossbones flag on stage left.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Total Back Up Power Takes A Quantum Leap!
In this EXTREMELY text- and font-dense ad, a Commodore 64 is a computer flying to space, and the red Action Replay cartrige is a shuttlecraft about to dock with it. Headings include "WARP 25 BREAKS THE 5 SECOND BARRIER!!!" "PLUS UNIQUE CODE CRACKER MONITOR" and "POWERFUL DESIGN WITH ON BOARD L51 LOGIC PROCESSOR CHIP"
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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ianzpotter.bsky.social
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
ellafication.bsky.social
i NEEEEED TO STUDY!! but i won’t. waiter 5 more hours of doomscrolling please!
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Rogue (DOS, 1984)
ROGUE: The Adventure Game. The game of Rogue was originated by: Michael C. Toy and Kenneth C.R.C. Arnold Adapted for the IBM PC by: John Lane. Significant design contributions by: Glenn Wichman and scores of others. Public Domain Software - 1984, not to be sold. Rogue's Name? Player
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
ellafication.bsky.social
the twitter bird flies high in the bluesky… i’ve got it all figured out
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
ellafication.bsky.social
holy aura
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
"Trade with 2,000 planets in eight galaxies"
Top, the "Elite" logo - a gold aguila with silver wings and helmet behind the word "ELITE." Left is a screenshot for the BBC Micro B and B+, and right is a screenshot for the BBC Master; both show the player, a first person spacehip, focusing on an enemy ship with stars flying in the background; gauges appear in the bottom left and right, and the now industry standard isomettric radar on the bottom of each screenshot shows the player is surrounded. Below is dense copy, describing the complex aspects of gameplay (exploration, combat, trade, and quests); below that, the Superior Software logo (a red and white interlinked pair of Ss), the Acornsoft logo (an egg), and an order address (mail and phone only) are listed below.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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slimyswampghost.bsky.social
Watched AFTER LIFE (1998) last night, and it floored me. It's a humanist fantasy-drama with a succinct and fascinating after-life scenario, which it uses to explore...Regular people. What matters to them. What matters to you? If you could only live in one memory forever, what would you choose?
Still from After Life (1998). a man looks down a square hole at the viewer, the sky blue behind him A group of people wave at a cartoonishly cheerful sky A group of people with a camera. behind them is a painted cloudy sky. Silhouetted figures enter a building from a white void of mist
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
ellafication.bsky.social
if there’s one good thing about being lazy, it’s that it keeps me from making unwise decisions while distressed
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
ellafication.bsky.social
youtu.be/vlw5MqGI7xQ?...
banger
Who's Crying Now
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November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 Road to the Galactic Centre

Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Abramyan

star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
The picture shows the a composite image of Monument Valley, Utah, USA in the foreground, and the plane of the Milky-Way Galaxy including the Galactic Centre in the background. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
ellafication.bsky.social
anyone who ever said that money doesn’t buy happiness is LYING!
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Neopets (2003) (Source.)
A screenshot of IE6, open to Neopets' Explore page. The browser is branded with a red Q logo of some ISP, since browsers back then would let ISPs brand them to imply it was the ISP's legitimate software. Below menus and clearly labelled buttons, we have a labelled address bar, a links toolbar, a Google toolbar (with search and adblock built in!), a Yahoo toolbar (with search and common Yahoo links built in). The page shows a yellow sidebar with googie font (Pet Central, Create a Pet, Neomail, World, Explore, Chat, Games, Shops, News, Help, Login, Logout); a banner in the same googie font for Explore Neopia; an event ("Something has happened:" - image of a green brutish Neopet - "GRUNDO MUST EAT NEOPETS!!! GRUNDO FETCH NEOPETS FOR MASTER!"); and a map of Neopia, each having its own games and lore to explore. The taskbar shows 12 fast-start icons, three Internet Explorer windows, a notepad window, and a MSPaint window; the system tray shows 5 resident programs beside the clock.
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Antikythera mechanism (2nd century BC; reconstruction 2012, Tony Freeth)
A simple mechanism for predicting the Callipic cycle, a technique for estimating the time, solstice, and lunar state, used by Greek navigators. The dial on the left shows the state of six heavenly bodies, a crank, and the instructions for use inscribed on the front; the middle shows the mechanism itself, with various step gears used to multiply or divide the main gear into smaller or larger periods; the spring spirals on the back act as a kind of 'checksum', alerting the operator to the end of a calendar month or year.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM