Mastodawn

Retro Techie 7h ago

Who needs a fancy smartphone with an App Store full of games when you have one of these bad boys?

#RetroTech #TMNT #RetroGaming #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #1990sTech

Engadget 23h ago

Commodore has dropped the price of its retro phone by $100 ahead of preorders

https://www.engadget.com/2202085/commodore-has-dropped-the-price-of-its-retro-phone-by-100-ahead-of-preorders/

#RetroTech #Smartphones #Gadgets

Commodore Has Dropped The Price Of Its Retro Phone By $100 Ahead Of Preorders

A refreshing direction for a price change.

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Hackaday 1d ago

Cheap 80s Keyboard Gets Modern Brain Upgrade

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/cheap-80s-keyboard-gets-modern-brain-upgrade/

#Hardware #Maker #RetroTech

Cheap 80s Keyboard Gets Modern Brain Upgrade

The 1981 Casio VL-1 was a fine cheap keyboard. It had a robust build, though an admittedly limited sound palette. [Max Vega] had one of these charming instruments, and decided to use modern tech to…

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MATRIXSYNTH 1d ago

Roland M-64C Memory Cartridge

https://www.matrixsynth.com/2026/06/roland-m-64c-memory-cartridge.html

#Synthesizers #MusicGear #RetroTech

Roland M-64C Memory Cartridge

Synthesizer website dedicated to everything synth, eurorack, modular, electronic music, and more.

N-gated Hacker News 1d ago

🗺️💾 Oh, OS9Map! Finally, a tool that lets you experience the thrill of 2026's digital cartography on a cutting-edge Mac OS 9. Who needs Google Maps when you have 16 MB of RAM to smoothly scroll through the past? 🙃📼
https://yllan.org/software/OS9Map/ #OS9Map #DigitalCartography #RetroTech #MacOS9 #Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

OS9Map | yllan's stories

An OpenStreetMap viewer for Mac OS 9.

Mark Haworth 1d ago

What if teletext had never gone away? I kept the chunky coloured pages and page numbers, and wired the back of it to live UK feeds, rewritten every 90 minutes by an AI.

A personal project, firmly non-commercial: it only borrows the headlines and hands them back, with thanks to the feeds behind it. I am not claiming anything new, there are other recreations out there far more capable than mine.

https://markhaworth.uk/investigations/ai-teletext

#Teletext #Ceefax #RetroComputing #RetroTech #AI

Teletext: a new old-fashioned way to read the news · G4EID

A faithful recreation of 1970s teletext, the blocky colour-text TV service, but with the pages written fresh every 90 minutes by an AI working from live UK news, finance, sport and weather.

Lobsters 1d ago

Front-Panel Booting an ATmega88 Microcontroller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-2adBkW7Xo

#Hardware #Microcontrollers #RetroTech

Front-Panel Booting an ATmega88 Microcontroller

YouTube

Metin Seven 1d ago

The recent portable re-releases of three of our 1990s games have been added to @MacSourcePorts . If you've got a Mac, check 'em out for free… 🙂

https://www.macsourceports.com/tag/Team%20Hoi

#TeamHoi #PixelArt #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #16bit #commodore #amiga #IT #1990s #tech #MoonChild #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #CharacterDesign #design #art #GraphicDesign #CreativeToots #MacOS #apple #mac

Retro Techie 1d ago

AOL for Mac circa 2007

#AOL #AmericaOnline #90sInternet #RetroTech #90sNostalgia #ThrowbackTech #TechHistory #YouveGotMail #90sKids #RetroComputing #MillennialMemories

Hackaday 1d ago

New Record Resurrects Long-Dead CD Graphics Format

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/25/new-record-resurrects-long-dead-cd-graphics-format/

#RetroTech #Audio #Hacks

New Record Resurrects Long-Dead CD Graphics Format

Audio CDs were the ubiquitous audio format of the 1990s. Lesser known were the extensions to the format that packaged all kinds of interesting additional data into a musical release. Now, a new rec…

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