Cyningstan
LobstersA 16-byte MS DOS demo: Matrix rain with sound
Your empire might be bounded by the sea. The sea is completely impassable to your armies, but any port city will bring in 3 gold from sea trade for each adjacent sea square, in addition to that raised by taxes. Save the empire from the #Barbarians by downloading the game from https://cyningstan.itch.io/barbarians-dos #ibmpc #msdos #cga
Atari Scene NewsMeshtastic is a LoRa-based mesh networking protocol that allows low-power, long-range communication over radio bands. There's a work in progress TEXTMSG client for #AtariST (and #Amiga, #Macintosh, #MSDOS) computers https://macumbaeditor.com/examples/mesh.html #meshtastic #atari
DanielMacumba Editor: Visual development environment for retrocomputers
Like Hollywood, Macumba Editor aims to provide a development environment and language for creating native programs for various platforms - though here the focus is on retrocomputers: Target systems besides Amiga are Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, MS-DOS and, work in progress, PDP-11.
SuperIluSomeone wrote(*) a lengthy Spanish post about #DOStodon, my #Mastodon client for #MSDOS
*) I don't speak Spanish, but the machine translation sounds like AI was involved?
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/116584663314623971
Crowd funding: Point & Click adventure "Tomáš: King of Rejection"
Mark Bauermeister’s "Tomáš: King of Rejection" aims to be a tribute to “the 1990s, the golden age of adventure games”: In the game, described as a "slapstick comedy" the player must involuntarily take on the role of Jesus after a time-travel accident, having pushed the latter out of the way when trying to connect with a certain Mary Magdalene.
TangentDeltaI installed a Gotek running the FlashFloppy firmware in my Otrona Attache 8:16. This should make fiddling around with different disk images a little easier. No more needing to whip out the 386 utility PC to make backups of my scratch disks.
vga256back in 1996 i was a year away from graduating from high school and deep into my cd-rom obsession
from 1994 onward, every month i bought a $12 copy of CD-ROM Today because it came with The Disc! - a coverdisc packed full of mac and pc demos and shareware
except for one issue. this issue. as the resident early Seinfeld hater of my people, i was also a proud Jim Carrey hater when he was at his peak.
i was so truly offended by the cover of this issue that i refused to buy it on principle.
a month later, I went back to my Coles bookstore to get my fix, and the magazine was gone from the shelves. i checked two other bookstores - it wasn’t out of stock; it had disappeared entirely. by september, it was clear that the magazine was never coming back, and i gave up looking for it. i was heartbroken - it was something i had counted on every month for years.
a few years ago i started buying every issue of the magazine i could find. it took months just to assemble a complete year’s worth of issues.
and then, this morning: I begrudgingly flip open the issue that i had refused to buy 30 years ago. a note from the editor explains that as of this issue, CD-ROM Today is ceasing publication, and forking into Boot magazine and MacAddict!
i would have been fucking overjoyed to know that i now had *two* cd-rom mags to buy! instead, when i saw MacAddict and Boot appear on the shelves, i just assumed they were inferior fly-by-night zines that would disappear after a few issues. 😭
#multimedia #cdrom #macintosh #vintageApple #msdos #dosGaming
Aetherius Eldritch ⛤🧙♂️🎙️📻DOStodon: El asombroso regreso del pasado para conectar la computadora con el Fediverso
Una mirada al cliente que permite revisar tus redes sociales directamente desde el viejo sistema operativo MS-DOS sin necesidad de Windows ni entornos modernos.
Para la mayoría de las personas, la idea de revisar una red social moderna implica abrir una aplicación en el teléfono inteligente o usar un navegador web pesado en una computadora de última generación. Sin embargo, el ecosistema libre y abierto de Mastodon nos regala sorpresas que rompen por completo con lo convencional. El proyecto conocido como DOStodon demuestra que la tecnología del pasado todavía tiene mucho que decir, permitiendo que computadoras antiguas fabricadas hace más de 30 años se conecten a internet para interactuar con la comunidad digital actual de forma totalmente nativa.
Este peculiar programa es un cliente completo de Mastodon diseñado específicamente para funcionar sobre MS-DOS o sistemas compatibles como FreeDOS. Creado originalmente por el desarrollador independiente SuperIlu, el software no es una simple curiosidad de texto plano, sino una herramienta funcional que ofrece características avanzadas que envidiarían otros entornos sencillos. Los usuarios que se aventuran a instalarlo pueden ver la línea de tiempo, revisar sus menciones, buscar etiquetas temáticas y, lo más sorprendente de todo, previsualizar imágenes en miniatura directamente en la pantalla de sus monitores de tubo antiguos.
El secreto detrás de esta hazaña técnica radica en una herramienta llamada DOjS, un entorno que permite ejecutar código Javascript bajo el viejo sistema operativo de disco de Microsoft. Gracias a esto, el programa puede gestionar las conexiones de red necesarias para hablar con los servidores modernos del Fediverso y traducir los datos en una interfaz visual limpia y adaptada a las tarjetas gráficas de la época. Para los amantes de las computadoras clásicas, los requisitos mínimos son un viaje en el tiempo: basta con tener un procesador 80386 y apenas 4 megabytes de memoria RAM, aunque se recomienda una computadora tipo Pentium para que el desplazamiento por los mensajes sea tan suave como la seda.
El desarrollo de este cliente se mantiene activo gracias al soporte de su comunidad en sitios como GitHub, donde recientemente se han integrado mejoras críticas en las librerías de seguridad para que la aplicación no pierda compatibilidad con los protocolos actuales de la web.
— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso
Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot
#DOStodon #Mastodon #MSDOS #Retrocomputing #SoftwareLibre #Fediverso
DesertFOXI just discovered: DOSGames.com offers an impressive collection of oldschool game company catalogs for DOS! A journey through the 90s and a beautiful addition to any retro collection! 😎
Link: https://www.dosgames.com/catalogs.php
#DOSGaming #Gaming #DOS #Retro #RetroGaming #PCGaming #90s #90er #MSDOS #GamingHistory #Win95 #Win311 #Preservation #StopKillingGames
