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3dreas.bsky.social
Another image done for the cutscenes in the Amiga OCS game I'm working on.
The game really needs to get a name at some point.

#art #digitalart #pixelart #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #amiga #commodore #gamedev #indiedev
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
janbeta.net
New video! Making a single chip Amiga Kickstart switcher and trying out a boot selector for the A600 and A1200.

YouTube: youtu.be/EJ7AFMgJjdQ
PeerTube: makertube.net/w/vmBrgvh5ro...

#Amiga #Commodore #A600 #Amiga600 #Kickstart #KickstartSwitcher #BootSelector #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
One Chip Amiga Kickstart Switcher & an A600/A1200 Boot Selector
YouTube video by Jan Beta
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
xodium.net
This is entirely too much RAM for 7.6.1

#vintageapple #vintagecomputing
About this Mac, in Mac OS 7.6.1, showing a Power Mac 9600 with 920ish MB of RAM.
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
vintagecomputer.ca
Hmmm... I just saw this picture in a Craigslist ad for an IBM XT and an HP LaserJet... the original. For some reason, it never occurred to me that the line started before the HP LaserJet Series II. I've never seen an original before. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
This is a picture of an IBM PC XT computer with color monitor and keyboard along with an original Hewlett Packard LaserJet printer. It was a picture in a Craigslist ad.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
This is my Total Microcomputer Model 4000 computer. Technically the last of a rare Motorola 6800 based home computer that was a pioneer in an "all-in-one" computer. Six days left on @bzotto.bsky.social Kickstarter for his book detailing Sphere Corporation here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...
This is a picture of the Total Microcomputer System 4000. More pictures at https://vintagecomputer.ca/total-microcomputer-4000/ #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
jan.herrmontag.de.ap.brid.gy
AAAAAANNNNNND it works! You can read about it here and there is a Screenshot :-)

(https://apfelhammer.de/compiling-classic-thunderbird-client-epyrus-for-ppc64.html)

#powermac #ppc #ppc64 #vintagecomputing #archlinux
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
cloudscout.com
This sucks. I finally got a PAL VIC-20 (VC-20, actually) a while back and finally got around to testing it tonight. It would seem that the MOS 6561 VIC chip in it is bad. Getting messed up colors in games. Here's an example from Cheese and Onion.

#VintageComputing #RetroComputing
Screenshot of VIC-20 game "Cheese and Onion" with subtle color problems. Specifically, white pixels are missing.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
rocvg.bsky.social
Nice shot of an Apple IIc computer. #vintagecomputing #retro #computers
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
siliconundergro.bsky.social
29 years ago this week, the first sub-$1,000 PC with a built-in LCD display hit the market. And it was made in Missouri. The PC was called the Monorail. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing dfarq.homeip.net/monorail-the...
Monorail: Pioneering $999 PCs from 1996
There's only one winner in the race to the bottom
dfarq.homeip.net
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
rocvg.bsky.social
Another day in the high tech office of the past. #vintagecomputing #nostalgia #officelife
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
kozmicretro.bsky.social
So here's part 2 of my Retro Computer Room refresh (version 1.5). Moved some things around, added some things, you know, typical stuff. Let me know what you think! Link in reply below!

#vlog #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retro #collection
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
blakespot.bsky.social
Happy Halloween to all the retro computing folks out there!

#Halloween #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #vintagecomputing #spooky #scary #photo #CRT #computer #Amiga #Commodore #scary #boo
Amiga 1000 computer spookily covered in cobwebs and spiders for Halloween
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
3dreas.bsky.social
This is another image from one of the cutscenes of the Amiga OCS game I'm working on.

Looking at it, does it make you want to know what happened to this person?

#art #digitalart #pixelart #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #amiga #commodore #gamedev #indiedev
October 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
chris.sights.omgwars.com
Finally cracked open the Mac Classic to see what I was in for. Could be worse - could be better.

#vintagecomputing #MacintoshClassic
Mac Classic motherboard with some capacitor corrosion. Not surprised by that, but I am concerned about it leaking into other chips. AMD SCSI controller with some corroded legs. Potential corrosion on the sound and VIA chips. AMD serial controller with some corroded legs.
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
siliconundergro.bsky.social
31 years ago today, Intel acknowledged the FDIV bug in its Pentium CPUs that caused them to divide incorrectly. It had known about the flaw for 6 months, and it ultimately cost the company $475 million. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing dfarq.homeip.net/the-pentium-...
Intel's Pentium FDIV bug and recall
Intel downplayed the flaw too much, which resulted in backlash from consumers
dfarq.homeip.net
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
janbeta.net
New video! Replacing the rechargeable lithium cell on my Blizzard 1230 MK IV Amiga 1200 accelerator card.

YouTube: youtu.be/-sdXLAXbpfQ
PeerTube: makertube.net/w/qLLGtqax62...

#Amiga #A1200 #Amiga1200 #Commodore #Blizzard1230 #Phase5 #Battery #Accelerator #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
Blizzard 1230 MK IV Amiga Accelerator Battery Replacement
YouTube video by Jan Beta
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
cloudscout.com
I enjoy racing games but I have never really followed professional racing. That's why I'm amused by the only non-burned game I have for my CD32... Nigel Mansell's World Championship. To me, he's just a wax dummy abused by Jeremy Clarkson, et al.

#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Amiga
CD jewel case for the Amiga CD32 game "Nigel Mansell's World Championship". Screenshot from an episode of The Grand Tour showing Jeremy Clarkson in the driver's seat of a car and a wax dummy of Nigel Mansell in the passenger seat.
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
3dreas.bsky.social
This is an image from one of the cutscenes of the Amiga OCS game I'm working on.
The game really should get a name at some point.

#art #digitalart #pixelart #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #amiga #commodore #gamedev #indiedev
October 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
vintage.computer
Throwback Thursday ☎️ Before Wi-Fi or even Ethernet, early computer users connected to bulletin boards with acoustic coupler modems, literally strapping a phone handset into rubber cups to send and receive data over analog lines. #VintageComputing #RetroTech #VintageComputer
Image titled “Throwback Thursday – Acoustic Coupler Modems.” The background features soft desert sand tones with a magnifying glass icon near the heading. In the center is a photograph showing a vintage Atari 800XL computer connected to an acoustic coupler modem. The modem has an orange rotary telephone handset resting in two black rubber cups, which are designed to hold the earpiece and mouthpiece to transmit data acoustically. A small tape drive sits beside the setup, and a CRT monitor in the background displays a game screen. Caption below the photo reads: “Wolfgang Stief, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atari_800XL_with_Modem.jpg.” Beneath the image, text reads: “In order to connect to message boards from the first PCs, computer enthusiasts often had acoustic coupler modems that would be able to send and receive digital signals over an analog telephone line.” At the bottom right corner is the text vintage.computer.
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
siliconundergro.bsky.social
October 27, 1982 is the date on the BIOS in the Revision B IBM PC model 5150. So that makes today a good day to look at the differences between revision A and revision B of the original IBM PC. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing dfarq.homeip.net/ibm-pc-5150-...
IBM PC 5150 Revision A vs Revision B
One of them is considerably more rare than the other
dfarq.homeip.net
October 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
cloudscout.com
My SMD soldering skills are lacking so I decided to practice on this horribly battery-bombed Macintosh IIsi. The caps came off pretty easily but then I wanted to see if I could remove the destroyed VLSI chip. Not as many missing pads as I expected.

#VintageComputing #RetroComputing
A badly damaged Macintosh IIsi motherboard showing the place where the VLSI chip goes before and after cleanup work.
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
vintage.computer
On this day in 1980, the ARPANET, the ancestor of the modern Internet, crashed for the first time. A faulty IMP (early router) brought the network down for hours. The solution? The first-ever network reboot. #VintageComputing #InternetHistory #ARPANET #RetroTech #VintageComputer
Image titled “Milestone Monday – October 27th, 1980.” The design has a dark starry background with a stylized sunrise shape at the bottom. At the top, bold yellow text reads: Milestone Monday – October 27th, 1980 On the left is a photo of an Interface Message Processor (IMP) — a beige rack-mounted device with rows of switches and indicator lights. The label on the front reads “INTERFACE MESSAGE PROCESSOR.” A caption below the photo reads: “FastLizard4, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interface_Message_Processor_Front_Panel.jpg.”
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
3dreas.bsky.social
This is one of the level presentations from the Amiga OCS game I'm working on.
The palette is two colors plus the background color. Did not take a screenshot in the emulator.
#art #digitalart #pixelart #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #amiga #commodore #gamedev #indiedev
October 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
stiefkind.bsky.social
Neben alten Computern hab' ich's ja auch mit Typographie, Buchdruck und Fotosatz. Von da ist es dann nicht mehr weit zu Textsatz mit dem Computer und der Welt von troff, pic und eqn. Dazu heute zwei Neuzugänge im Alteisenregal. #vintagecomputing #bücherliebe #unix #techhistory #dtp #troff
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
blakespot.bsky.social
#AppleII #vintageapple #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #CRT #Apple #applelogo #photo #nostalgia #eighties #ByteCellar
Apple IIe showing a slideshow
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM