#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #netscape #gold #apple #macintosh #mac #navigator

Catch of the Day: All that glitters is Netscape Gold! ✨

Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us struggle with gigabyte-heavy browsers today, our bouncer welcomed true web royalty last night at 2:30 AM:

Netscape Navigator 3.01Gold on a Mac!

Who remembers the "Gold" edition? Back in 1996, this was the absolute premium standard. Netscape 3.0 Gold didn't just bring improved JavaScript support and LiveAudio; it was the first to feature an integrated WYSIWYG HTML editor ("Netscape Composer"). You could view websites and build them in basically the same window—a dream come true for 90s webmasters!

The fact that this roughly 30-year-old browser is still exploring the web from a classic Mac today and using our search engine is simply wonderful, and exactly the reason FrogFind exists.

Stay retro and surf in gold!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸

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now this is some arcane magicks...

Tiny BASIC for the RCA 1802!

https://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/mship_tbasic.html

http://www.cosmacelf.com/software/tbsourcep.txt

may have some joy structuring the eternal meandering for a 2K Tiny BASIC around this processor's implementation.

with 16 general purpose registers, the 1802 seems to better resemble the AVR microcontroller architecture than other examples we have dug up.

so far we know of:

6502, 8080, Z80, x86, and now the RCA 1802 assembly implementations of Tiny BASIC.

#tinybasic #basic #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #permacomputing

Our 1984 Apple repair station in the Uni Bamberg SYSNAP Vintage Computing Lab – the upcoming long weekend will be a Lisa repair session!

#SYSNAP #unibamberg #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #apple #lisa #macintosh #m68k

When Panasonic Absolutely Lost Their Minds [17:45] | Action Retro

https://lemy.lol/post/65489319

“Reading the Board: The Atari BBS Written in BASIC”

This month dives deep into the actual code behind Atari BBS systems like AMIS, FoReM, Carina, and NiteLite — from modem answer routines and ATASCII handling to message bases, file transfers.

Still amazing to me that these systems, written largely in BASIC, even better still online today!

ATASCII Lives.

#Atari #BBS #RetroComputing #ComputeMagazine #Atari8bit #Sysop #ATASCII #VintageComputing #RetroTech #BulletinBoardSystem

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #atari #highwire #toss

Catch of the Day: Greetings from the TOS Universe! 🕹️

Hey Retro Fans!

The eternal system wars of the 80s and 90s are long gone. Today, we are united by our love for vintage hardware. And even if some of us spend our weekends cleaning the motherboards of an Amiga 2000 and recapping its power supply, you simply have to tip your hat to today's incredible catch:

HighWire 0.3.3 on an Atari ST / TOS!

A genuine Atari ST (or perhaps a TT/Falcon) was browsing FrogFind today! For those who might not know: HighWire is an absolutely fantastic open-source web browser, written in pure C, specifically designed for the GEM graphical environment of Atari computers. It even supports basic CSS and images—a true masterpiece of programming for this hardware architecture.

The fact that in 2026 someone is connecting their Atari to the modern web using a network cartridge (or via serial SLIP/PPP) to use our little search engine is simply brilliant. A wonderful piece of tech history lives on.

Cheers to the 16-bit era!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸