Why was the Kickstart 1.x "Insert floppy" graphic so bad?
https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/lzao7j/why_was_the_kickstart_1x_insert_floppy_graphic_so/
#amiga #retrocomputing
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 ๐
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 ๐
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)
While Linux distros are switching from X11 to Wayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NetBSD-New-Window-Manager-2020
omg, a remake of Turrican just got announced at Gamescom 2020
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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?
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?
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 ๐ฎ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=S8e7g8kJIlo
#chip #retrocomputing
Listening to Reformation 3 ๐ง๐
https://c64audio.com/pages/reformation-3-order-page
#retrocomputing #chip #c64 #sid
Making of Prince of Persia (1989)
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
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Nomadic Linux developer, currently living in Chiang Mai.
#travel #cycling #anime #linux #nature #vegan #retrocomputing