Mastodawn

🎉 Behold, the latest marvel from the world of tech: Fuzix OS, because apparently the 70s weren't long enough! 🕰️ The release notes are a breathtaking saga of "look, we fixed some bugs" and "now you can run ancient binaries on your ancient hardware." 🚀 Welcome to 2023, where small is beautiful, and relevance is... optional. 😜
https://www.fuzix.org/ #FuzixOS #TechNews #RetroComputing #VintageSoftware #BugFixes #HackerNews #ngated

Fuzix: Because Small Is Beautiful

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Apr 2

Hackaday: OldVersion Is Back, And Better Than Ever. “You know what they say — you can’t keep a good website down. OldVersion.com, the repository of outdated software that has been serving up old versions of tools you need for the last twenty-five years, is not going away as we reported last year. Not only is it sticking around, it’s gotten a retro facelift inspired by Windows 3.1 or OS/2.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/02/hackaday-oldversion-is-back-and-better-than-ever/

Hackaday: OldVersion Is Back, And Better Than Ever

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Sinclair-Speccy Mar 16

#RetroPrograms #VintageSoftware #OldSchoolSoftware #RetroComputingSoftware #ClassicApplications #VintagePrograms #OldPrograms #LegacySoftware #SoftwareThrowback #InternetExplorer4 #IE4 #MicrosoftIE

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Mar 3

Tom’s Hardware: Developer’s 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features classic 90s web browser, text editor, and more. “Posted as an open-source project on GitHub under the GPL license, but accessible via its own website, the project has faithfully recreated the appearance of a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/03/toms-hardware-developers-1994-linux-desktop-recreation-runs-in-your-browser-as-a-modern-web-app-open-source-project-brings-old-school-cde-interface-back-from-the-dead-and-features-class/

Tom’s Hardware: Developer’s 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features classic 90s web browser, text editor, and more

Tom’s Hardware: Developer’s 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features …

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Feb 25

Tom’s Hardware: You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum — Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games. “The Interim Computer Museum (ICM) and SDF.org have made 28 vintage computer systems accessible online for free. There’s a plethora of old but gold – some legendary – systems available, so […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/25/toms-hardware-you-can-log-into-28-vintage-computer-systems-in-your-browser-for-free-thanks-to-the-interim-computer-museum-experience-legendary-oses-architectures-programming-languages/

Tom’s Hardware: You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum — Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games

Tom’s Hardware: You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum — Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages,…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Emsquared Feb 25

The ephemera I hold onto... #Ubuntu #PowerPC #VintageSoftware #Linux

Sinclair-Speccy Feb 5

#RetroPrograms #VintageSoftware #OldSchoolSoftware #RetroComputingSoftware #ClassicApplications #VintagePrograms #OldPrograms #LegacySoftware #SoftwareThrowback

Constantin Feb 2

🕹️ #RetroMonday
Windham Classics (1984–1990) turned literature into games.
AliceInWonderland & SwissFamilyRobinson: hardcore text adventures – read, think, type.
Pure text, pure adventure. 💾⌨️
#RetroGaming #TextAdventure #ParserGames #HomeComputing #VintageSoftware #retromontag

Hacker News Dec 23

Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (2013)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

#HackerNews #AdobePhotoshop #SourceCode #ComputerHistory #TechHistory #VintageSoftware #CreativeSoftware

Adobe Photoshop Source Code

When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.

CHM

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Dec 12

The Register: Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads. “Legacy Update has for years been a tremendously useful site and tool for those wanting to keep older versions of Windows alive and in active use. The site has updated its archive of files that Microsoft used to make available for free download in the official Download Center, but has in its finite wisdom removed.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/12/the-register-legacy-update-expands-archive-of-vanished-microsoft-downloads/

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