Astonishing to think that Nigel Alderton was a mere 15 years old when he designed and programmed Chuckie Egg. What an iconic and thoroughly addictive 8-bit #microcomputer game of the early 80s!

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/21/in-my-mind-it-was-just-tall-birds-wandering-around-on-platforms-the-making-of-chuckie-egg #computing #gaming #tech #techhistory

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg

The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater Manchester

The Guardian

April 11th, 1976 - The #Apple 1 is released🍎

1MHz 6502, 4kB of DRAM (expandable to 8kB!), and a 40 by 24 character display.

#Woz was able to fit a simple hex editor in the limited 256 bytes of ROM in the machine, which allowed the user to enter, read, and run programs/data in RAM.

The schematic was interesting too. Woz had made his own TV typewriter terminal, similar to Don Lancaster's, and the Apple 1 was just a simple #microcomputer bolted onto the front of it.

Happy 50th to the Apple 1🎉

#retrogaming and #vintagecomputing #archive #Myrient is shutting down due to rising costs in hosting and hardware. This is indeed a very sad development in the preservation of vintage software.

If you're into this sort of thing, hurry up and mirror the things you need before it shuts down on March 31 2026.

I'll be sure to grab anything related to the #Enterprise #microcomputer, as well as some old #NES stuff.

https://myrient.erista.me/

#mirror

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I built a pint-sized Macintosh

To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040). The version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz, and allows you to plug in a USB keyboard and mouse. Since the original Pico's RAM is fairly constrained, you get a maximum of 208 KB of RAM with this setup—which is 63% more RAM than you got on the original '128K' Macintosh!

Jeff Geerling
@theoasisbbs This might sound silly, but I'm really hopeful that #Commodore might eventually make a new #microcomputer platform focusing on being intentionally simple. Perhaps a novel 16-bit architecture implemented in FPGA (or maybe something "truer" like ASIC!), designed to be relatively simple to program in a #lowlevel language. Sounds like a dream to me.
https://www.wacoca.com/games/1305722/ 「AtomMan G7 Pro」 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop 搭載、高性能ゲーミングミニPC 登場! #「AtomManG7Pro」GeForceRTX5070Laptop搭載、高性能ゲーミングミニPC登場! ##GAMING #DreamNews #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #MICROCOMPUTER(HK)TECHLIMITED #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ドリームニュース #ニュースリリース #プレスリリース #代行 #配信
Oh wow, a kit for a #microcomputer from the *1980s* 🚀—because nothing screams cutting-edge #tech like reviving ancient #relics while pretending to be pioneers of the #digital stone-age. 🔧🌪️ Truly revolutionary stuff, folks; next, they’ll tell us how the wheel was a #retro hipster invention too. 🛞💾
https://sunrise-ev.com/z80.htm #1980s #innovation #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
Z80 Membership Card & Microcomputer Kits | The Sunrise EV2 Project

In a few months we can celebrate the 50th #Anniversary of this outstanding #homecomputer. The #Apple1 wasn't as powerful as #DEC or #IBM #minicomputers, but much more affordable. As brainchild of Steve #Woz Wozniak this #8bit #microcomputer became the legal and very profitable foundation of #AppleComputers. It was the good old time, long before #Apple dropped #computers out of their name.
https://youtu.be/wmMnz090MOg

This #retrocomputer #vector #graphic #productillustration is made in #SVG with #Inkscape, not #Adobe #Illustrator.
MMD-1 Restoration - Part 1: bringing up the cutest Intel 8080 microcomputer trainer

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Mein Raspberry 5 ist nach dem Betriebssystemupdate (#dietpi) und abschliessendem Reboot nicht wieder hochgefahren!
habe dann in der config den HDMI output aktiviert (normalerweise läuft er headless)
Danach bootet er wieder!?!??
Die Erleichterung war groß - aber das kann doch nicht die Ursache sein...
#microcomputer #raspberrypi #dietpi #nextcloud