dirk dierickxLinuxMD is #Linux for the #Sega #MegaDrive / #genesis
Ingo PaschkeFun things to do with old computers: Read Usenet groups like it's 1990!
There is still quite some activity over there and I almost think there's a bit of a revival going on.
Most posters use UTF-8 these days which is a bit of an annoyance 😄. I use a quick and dirty nntp-proxy that takes care of converting everything back to iso-8859-1.
Ice BreakerToday two Amiga 600s are off to Amiga of Rochester for recapping and cleaning. While they’re off, we’re going to sunbright their cases. #amiga #commodore #retrocomputing
almigrantDer Telefunken RA 770 Analogrechner, präsentiert von Bernd Ulmann #retrocomputing
https://vimeo.com/1204840172
https://vimeo.com/1204840172
Vimeo
4am ❧TSKFRC-58 (unpreserved, cracked by Passport, Lock-It-Up protection)
https://archive.org/details/TSKFRC58_4amCrack
Thanks to @A2_Canada for the disk! I finally met him at INIT HELLO 2026, and he handed me this disk. He'd been in the country less than 24 hours and had already acquired ultra-rare, unpreserved software that no one had ever heard of.
Hacker NewsBuilding Principia for Windows XP
https://voxelmanip.se/2026/06/28/building-principia-for-windows-xp/
Building Principia for Windows XP
Back in the day when Principia originally released for Windows in 2014, the game would run on versions as far back as Windows XP. Given that Principia 1.4 was released while Windows XP still had mainstream support, this of course made sense at the time, and there was no real reason not to support it given that the tooling and dependencies at the time were still compatible with it. Fast forward to today with Principia as an open source project. While the Windows version should still run as far back as Windows 7, our usage of modern toolchains, dependencies and system libraries such as UCRT means that hard to truly guarantee far into the future as the ecosystem moves forward. However, this has always been something I wanted to change one day, bringing Principia back onto Windows XP and producing a fully open source build of the game that can run on it.
Hacker NewsBuilding Principia for Windows XP
https://voxelmanip.se/2026/06/28/building-principia-for-windows-xp/
#HackerNews #Building #Principia #for #Windows #XP #principia #WindowsXP #softwaredevelopment #programming #retrocomputing
Building Principia for Windows XP
Back in the day when Principia originally released for Windows in 2014, the game would run on versions as far back as Windows XP. Given that Principia 1.4 was released while Windows XP still had mainstream support, this of course made sense at the time, and there was no real reason not to support it given that the tooling and dependencies at the time were still compatible with it. Fast forward to today with Principia as an open source project. While the Windows version should still run as far back as Windows 7, our usage of modern toolchains, dependencies and system libraries such as UCRT means that hard to truly guarantee far into the future as the ecosystem moves forward. However, this has always been something I wanted to change one day, bringing Principia back onto Windows XP and producing a fully open source build of the game that can run on it.
'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_just updated the README for BAGQUEST:
https://codeberg.org/vidak/BAGQUEST.BAS
the game is coming together, we're on the home stretch now, pretty much everything works, and i just need to have interactive documentation etc etc
Hitchin Hackspace2026 Ham Radio Rally season continues a pace
Radio Rallies are a great chance to pick up vintage electronics kit, components, from ICs to valves and all sorts of other interesting stuff. There will be lots of events around the #UnitedKingdom.
July events...
5 July – Barford Norfolk Radio Rally
5 July – Broadcast Engineering Museum open day
5 Jul – Newbury Radio Rally (a really big event!)
11 Jul – Humber Fortress DX Amateur Radio Club – Radio Rally 2026
12 Jul – McMichael Radio & Electronics Rally 2026, White Waltham Airfield, Maidenhead
19 Jul – Lincoln Short Wave Club Summer Radio Rally
⚠️CANCELLED⚠️: 19 Jul – Bury St Edmunds Radio Rally
25 Jul – Wiltshire Radio Rally Electronics Fair & Car Boot Sale
Check out the #RSGB web site
https://rsgb.org/main/news/rallies/
For more details about each event.
#AmateurRadio #HAMRadio #RadioRallly #HAMFest #RetroElectronics #RetroComputing #RetroTechnologyVintageElectronics #WeirdNerdEventUK #Hackspace
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