🎉 Oh joy, another blog post chronicling the riveting tale of running #DOS on some obscure audio gear - because that's exactly what 2026 needed, more retro computing nonsense. 🖥️⚙️ Surely, the masses were waiting with bated breath for a DIY BIOS saga from the guy who can't stop talking about his 1994 i486. 📟😂
https://chrisdevblog.com/2026/06/08/running-dos-on-behringers-ddx3216-using-a-diy-x86-bios/ #retrocomputing #DIYprojects #techhumor #vintagehardware #HackerNews #ngated

XDA Developers: I turned an old laptop into a personal app server, and it’s outperforming my expectations. “I have one spare laptop with a second-generation Intel Core i3 processor and 12GB of DDR3 memory. I upgraded it a few months before RAM became a hard-to-get commodity. The CPU is modest, but the memory makes it possible to run some of my essential self-hosted apps and save money on […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/12/xda-developers-i-turned-an-old-laptop-into-a-personal-app-server-and-its-outperforming-my-expectations/

The Register: Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR. “Anthony Caccese, a principal product lead for enterprise platforms at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by day and a Raspberry Pi tinkerer by night, recently published an open-source project called 240-MP on GitHub. It’s a simple concept: Text-based menus that look like an old-school VCR interface, but with […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/11/the-register-blockbuster-new-raspberry-pi-project-turns-any-screen-into-old-school-vcr/

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Tom’s Hardware: Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs. “Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has gotten the original Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, the Symbian slider phone that launched in 2007, and has added mouse and keyboard support, he said in a post on X this week.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/08/toms-hardware-developer-gets-half-life-running-at-30-fps-on-a-nokia-n95-proves-2007-phones-can-just-about-match-1998-pcs/

Digital Preservation at the University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives: Digging for Data: Recovering Files from Forgotten Word Processing Systems. “The collections we work with contain disks from machines that were once used professionally but are now largely forgotten. While imaging the disks themselves was possible, none of our usual tools, or others we could find online, were able to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/04/digging-for-data-recovering-files-from-forgotten-word-processing-systems-university-of-cambridge-libraries/

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Found in my Calishat Snaps: YES WE SCAN. “Got an old USB scanner your computer can’t talk to? This web app is for you. … How it works. Your web browser emulates a whole PC running Linux with open-source scanning software (SANE). It connects that to your scanner via WebUSB.” George MacKerron, who created this site, made a similar one for using old printers called Printervention.

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/22/use-old-usb-scanners-via-yes-we-scan/

TechCrunch: Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support. “Many people are jailbreaking their Kindles following the news that Amazon is ending technical support for older models…. The move means users will only be able to use their devices to read content that’s already downloaded. So, naturally, people are jailbreaking them.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/18/techcrunch-users-turn-to-jailbreaking-their-older-kindles-as-amazon-ends-support/