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Chilling out after work with the latest 8-Bit Show And Tell episode, on 6502 assembly

Robin's calm exposition and one-handed typing are so... soothing. The nerd equivalent of a knitting show 😌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utb6dPUNw4I
#retrocomputing #c64

This composer on SoundCloud sounded very familiar...

Turns out his tunes are used as soundtracks in The 8-Bit Guy's videos.

https://soundcloud.com/eox-studios/popular-tracks
#retrocomputing #80s #synth

This time Robin got a mystery VIC 20 expansion box with knobs, switches, and unlabeled buttons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLGkqpPZ60c
#retrocomputing #vic20

The 8-Bit Guy is getting a ton of shit for being careless in restoring some weird IBM 7496 PCs found in a vintage computer warehouse...

Personally, I think all the decisions were reasonable for yet-another PC model that didn't become a success. Rarity alone doesn't automatically make things valuable.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/889zga/8-bit-guy-ibm-7496-executive-workstation-computer-reset
#retrocomputing

At 2:40, the presenter casually drags an Intuition screen of a different resolution and palette over the Workbench screen, probably unaware of how unique and marvelous this was in 1985, or even 10 years later.

https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Classic_Intuition_Screens
#amiga #retrocomputing

The Amiga in 1985 was so ahead of its time that the presenter had to explain the concepts of windows, mouse, multitasking and digital sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSONKMisWis
#amiga #retrocomputing

#NetBSD was my first unix, btw. I used it on an Amiga 4000 with a 25MHz CPU.

I had just enough ram to start X11 and a few applications OR compile the kernel... but not both at the same time 😂

To make things worse, building the kernel from sources would take about 2 days (or was that for the entire userland? I don't remember well)

#NetBSD #Amiga #bsd #retrocomputing

While Linux distros are switching from X11 to Wayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NetBSD-New-Window-Manager-2020

#netbsd #bsd #x11 #retrocomputing

omg, a remake of Turrican just got announced at Gamescom 2020
😄🕹️ #c64 #amiga #retrocomputing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcBLZ5QTiWc

You MUST replace volume
Lazarus
in device DF0 !!

#retrocomputing #amiga

The format is trivial... I think it's 2 bytes of load address followed by the raw data. No checksum. But how did people save their asm code without an emulator?

I guess I could write a BASIC program which calls OPEN and PRINT# to dump the memory into a file, but it there must be an easier way... right?

#c64 #retrocomputing

I have a #C64 asm programming question.

A few years ago, I used VICE's monitor to write some asm code directly in memory at $C000, and then I "saved" it into a snapshot.

I was able to re-install that particular VICE version and reload the snapshot, but now... how do I save it into a proper PRG file?

#c64 #retrocomputing

Turbo Imploder is an executable cruncher for AmigaOS.

It wasn't particularly fast nor had a good compression ration, but, boy, it came an amazing soundtrack and and even VU meters with rasterbars!

(someone should make a new video capture where compression doesn't fail, so we could hear the "save file" tune)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFkCbs7K7Rw
#amiga #retrocomputing

Retro Arcade
Playlist of 80's tunes for coding
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6nXIfJnE0t8jXdE5gYET8I
#retrocomputing #demoscene

Did you know that Satoru Iwata (the legendary CEO of Nintendo) was an unpaid intern at Commodore Japan in Akihabara and wrote a videogame for the VIC20?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJCwsi6O5xU
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit #vic20 #c64

But this project is much cooler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kDhpFaf4EY
#chip #retrocomputing #c64

Literally "chip" music 😮

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=S8e7g8kJIlo
#chip #retrocomputing

Listening to Reformation 3 🎧👍

https://c64audio.com/pages/reformation-3-order-page
#retrocomputing #chip #c64 #sid

Making of Prince of Persia (1989)
#retrocomputing #retrogaming

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/h8w6vw/behind_the_scenes_prince_of_persia_1989_making_of/

Incredible. Someone reverse-engineered the 3D renderer of Frontier: Elite II for the #Amiga and wrote a player in C capable of rendering the intro on modern graphics. Looks identical to me, including the sound.

Note: this isn't an Amiga emulator, it's a rewrite of the rendering engine, similar to ScummVM, but limited to the 3D graphics and synth.
#retrocomputing

https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/gl5jrx/reverse_engineered_frontier_elite_2_intro/