"When’s the last time your computer made you feel guilty?"

If you need a little more "Mom" for Mother's Day, fire up your Atari ST emulator and try "Mom and Me," the graphical chatbot created by Ya'akov Kirschen in 1985.

You can download a disk image here, and learn some of the history of this curious software:

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2022/11/28/unearthed-kirschens-atari-st-projects/

#retrocomputing #atarist #atari #mothersday #vintagecomputing #retrogaming #gamedev

Thirty one years ago today, Apple announced a rebate program on the #MessagePad 120, making the device more affordable to a wider audience.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19990116235511/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1995/q3/950510.pr.rel.newton.html

MessagePad 120 Rebates

MessagePad 120 Rebates

Inside the Atari 800

This is the computer that started it all.

Goto 10: Retro Computing & Gaming

if you scanned a datasheet, turned on whatever god-forsaken option replaced the image with OCR output, looked at this result and said "Good enough,"

... well, still thank you for scanning the data sheet at all I guess but I hope you sneeze sixteen times today.

#retrocomputing

So, the CBM 4040 is running again. Can you guess what it was? If ALL the chips except for the RIOT and CPU and the OneROM have been pulled, what could prevent the machine from booting??
#commodore #commodorepet #retrocomputing

Blast from the past!

Here's a vintage recording from the @2600 Voice BBS (c. 1990s) featuring details on the Manchester meetup at the iconic Cyberia Internet Cafe on Oxford Road.

(Also includes details on Bristol and London meetings).

#2600 #BBS #RetroComputing #Manchester #HackerHistory #Cyberia

Universe, released in 1994
Released for: Amiga CD32, DOS, Amiga
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Science fiction

From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/universe
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #amigacd32 #dos #amiga #sciencefiction
nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: lo raider bY Trace! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio
qUAntUm RaDio!

No big deal but I think the GlyphBlaster just got sound support

#retrocomputing #glyphblaster

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https://www.64er-magazin.de/8605/vorschau.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
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