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seghaxx.bsky.social
GEM is truly truly outrageous
@seghaxx.bsky.social
retrocode artist, transhumanist biohacker

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slowly reaching a semblance of stability, i'm ready to let people loose on this

behold, to the best of my knowledge the only running Citadel-86 anyone has seen in some time:

ssh to bbs@haxxed.com to connect

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
November 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
for how many retro BBSs are out there now, maybe two of them are Citadel?

doing my part, and attempting to resurrect Citadel-86, widely used in its hometown of the Minneapolis 612 and beyond, and root of many later Citadel forks

anyone out there remember these?
November 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
boomering it up at the first Minnesota Retro Technology Club meet
October 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
well now i have google

can we track it down?

the answer is no! absolutely no listing for this game anywhere, can't even bring up the PC magazine adverts

only through careful filtering out SEO garbage turns up yes, its on at least one list of lost media

how do i keep finding these
September 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
back in the blessed ages before the internet, i used to kill time by reading through piles of old computer magazines

i would spend hours wondering at the pages of advertisements for software and games with fascinating artwork that i could never hope to buy
September 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
if anyone is wondering this is straight out of AutoCAD 2.x 🫡

winworldpc.com/product/auto...
August 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
apparently the free geek free shelf died today RIP here's some janet jackson i picked out of the dumpster outside

will miss you much 💋
August 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
welp there's the bit i was looking for LETS GET ISOLATIN'
August 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
oh...

oh no 😱

...sure looks to be a short on the +15v rail

www.eevblog.com/forum/testge...
August 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
really wanted an old tek scope that did XY, overpaid $75 for this beat up busted thing from an HSC parking lot sale in 2013, replaced a power supply cap and it worked for a bit, then it rotted in storage for a decade and now it's blowing fuses

a $2600 piece of equipment on introduction in 1980!
August 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
that scope blew its fuse last i plugged it in

lets strip her nekkid

TEKTRONIX 465B REPAIR THREAD LETS GOOOOOO

service manual is still on tek's site download.tek.com/manual/465B_...
August 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
slowly building out the retro battlestation 2.0

BUILD UP, STUPID!
August 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
found some fossils

gonna try it at work on the tv that boomers keep playing newsmax on
July 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
this frankie knuckles is a banger
July 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
i live a lot closer to free geek now

i have acquired some things
July 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
last known video

all code by me ('cept the mostly ripped off GLSL implementation)

#retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #ZX81 #MSDOS #Raspi
July 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
last known photo of the retro dev den before i break it all down and move it

#retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #ZX81 #MSDOS #Raspi
July 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
firing up the jackintosh
July 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
i'm way behind on my ZX posting

need some proper mono cables to make the cassette deck go brrr so i grabbed a handful of various vintages from axe man

including this chonky vintage Sony RK-64A cable? sure looks like it came from the 1960s
June 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
i was able to navigate anywhere in the minneapolis metro from memory in the mid 2000s

then i left for 20 years and forgot it all :(

we all had one of these in our car
June 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ARE WE NOT MEN?

we are tuned to drop d
May 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
here i am after smoking a bowl and watching larry lalonde tell me his secrets

this pedal really nails that late 80s to early 90's alt rock/grunge sound, everything from late pink floyd to nirvana to primus 🐷
May 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
outputs turn out to be fine probably could have soaked them in contact cleaner and been done fml

get it all together and now the reverb LED is flaky and the number 2 button doesn't work but i can live without those

calling it a pyrrhic repair victory

here i am forgetting how to play cowboy chords
May 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
the output pot is all gooey and i think this is intentional goo to make it all smooth but its leaked out

wiped it down and hosed the rest down in contact cleaner

and confirmation someone has been in here before and done a poor job repairing LEDs

they were working so i'm just going to leave it
May 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
i become so fed up with it i kinda fail to get more photos but i succeed in getting the boards apart which requires de-soldering a ground link they really wanted to be sure about

the CPU does in fact glitch out spectacularly if you hit buttons without a solid ground

i wanted to inspect the pots
May 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM