Metin Seven 🎨13h ago

Clock Signal ─ A latency-hating multi retro system emulator

https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

#emulator #emulation #atari #Atari2600 #AtariST #ColecoVision #sinclair #amstrad #MSX #ZXSpectrum #VIC20 #Apple #Mac #Macintosh #sega #MasterSystem #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #8bit #16bit #commodore #amiga #computing #IT #1980s #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

GitHub - TomHarte/CLK: A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum, and Thomson MO5.

A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 a...

GitHub
Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪13h ago

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #C64 #MorphOS #Retrozilla #odyssey #powerpc

Catch of the Day: The Easter Special (8-Bit Wonders & PowerPC Dreams) 🐰💾

Hey Retro Fans!

We hope you had a relaxing holiday weekend and found plenty of Easter eggs. While we were enjoying the break, you hid some absolute top-tier retro gems in our server logs! We just checked the weekend stats, and all we can say is: Wow!

The highlights of our Easter Special:

🕹️ FrogFind on a C64? We recorded several visits from the Contiki Browser! Contiki OS is a tiny operating system that brings networking, a GUI, and a web browser to 8-bit machines like the Commodore 64, Apple II, or early Ataris. It runs on mere kilobytes of RAM. An absolute masterpiece of coding swimming in the Frog pond!

🦋 Greetings from the MorphOS niche: We had strong traffic from the Odyssey Web Browser running on MorphOS. This fascinating OS is deeply intertwined with Amiga history and breathes new life into old PowerPC Macs and Amiga accelerator boards.

🪟 The Windows 9x Lifeline: With over 300 clicks this weekend, RetroZilla made a strong appearance. This brilliant browser allows classic Windows 95 and 98 machines to continue navigating the text web securely.

It is an absolute honor to serve everything from 8-bit machines to PowerPC exotics. We hope you had a fantastic holiday!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Metin Seven 🎨15h ago

The Dutch coder and music composer Paul van der Valk (1963 - 2021, Rest In Peace) was responsible for the great score of the equally great Amiga shooter Hybris. He also made one of the Amiga's most-used compression tools, called Imploder. Paul used his own music editor (MsEd) to add a nice chiptune while you were waiting for the "Imploding" to finish. 🙂👍

#chiptune #commodore #amiga #ElectronicMusic #GameDev #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #IT #tech

Show threadKarlE16h ago
@vcfe netter und passender Name, das Gerät türmt sich auch steil auf wie ein Berg. ⛰️ 😉
Ich hab mich gefragt, was diese schräggestellten Fächer vor/unter dem Monitor sind. https://archive.is/bVViO schreibt, es handelt sich um "Parkplätze" für Disketten. Und er konnte mit drei ganz verschiedenen CPUs betrieben werden - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_J-11 war mir völlig fremd. Respekt!
#vintagecomputing #VCFe
Metin Seven 🎨20h ago

As a youngster you're forced to go to a prison named school. This meant I could not be near my precious Commodore Amiga 2000 computer. 😢

To ease the pain, I used my school notebook to draw my Amiga. A friend sitting next to me started drawing along, adding Space elements and other details. 😁

#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #TeamHoi #commodore #amiga #IT #vintage #tech #drawing #design #art #artist #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

Show threadRhii Alexander 🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

Adding more functionality to my USB -> IR RP2040 firmware to support Apricot wired mice as well, I was able to explore Apricot Activity on the Apricot PC!  

https://forgejo.crashtest.dev/jasonalexander-ja/apridapter

#aprilcot #apricot #apricotpc #actapricot #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Show threadRhii Alexander 🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

That was a lot of work nothing; but in my defence, I, nor clearly anyone else in the Apricot community could not find ANY prior reference to LibDsk or dskconv in reference to Apricot/Apridisk on the internet apart from on the LibDsk website

https://www.seasip.info/Unix/LibDsk/

The source tree for LibDsk also contained a HTML file describing the Apridisk format, it turns it's just RAW, but every sector has a header, and there can be comment records, and some sectors can be RLE encoded, that makes converting them actually pretty easy

Using that as a reference, I was able to add support for Apridisk file formats directly into the Greaseweazle CLI client, meaning, you can now directly write out Apridisk formatted files (and thus, all on actapricot.org archive) using Greaseweazle using the flag `--format=apricot.single` or `apricot.double`

https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle/pull/626

A far cry from spinning up a whole other DOS PC that was the Internet's generally accepted method previously  

And ofc, my Apricot PC is booting off of both drives without issue, and I got DR's GSX working which meant I was able to load Apricot's very own Activity GUI shell!

Now, I just need a mouse...

#aprilcot #apricot #apricotpc #actapricot #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

N-gated Hacker News1d ago
🤡 Ah yes, because nothing says "cutting-edge cryptography" like using a 40-year-old computer to solve one of history's most famously complex ciphers. 🖥️🔑 Next up: solving world hunger with a potato battery. 🍟🔋
https://imapenguin.com/2026/03/breaking-enigma-with-index-of-coincidence-on-a-commodore-64/ #cuttingedgecryptography #vintagecomputing #complexciphers #techhumor #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
Breaking Enigma with Index of Coincidence on a Commodore 64

Breaking Enigma without known plaintext using statistical analysis on the Commodore 64.

Imapenguin
L.A.C.R.A.1d ago
En solo 3 semanas más participaremos de esta hermosa conjunción de computación retro y experimental. Vamos al Vintage Computer Festival Latam, Bahía Blanca 2026. Exquisita grilla, con música, emulación, historia y más. nos vemos allá. https://vcf.espaciotec.com.ar/?lang=es #VCF #EspacioTec #VintageComputing
VCF Latam 2026 - Espacio TEC

For the first time, the VCF is coming to Latin America with an edition that will bring together exhibitions, talks, and activities dedicated to epoch-making technologies.

VCF Latam 2026 - Espacio TEC
ICM1d ago
Thank you to UW for inviting us to TGIF at the Paul G. Allen school for Computer Science and Engineering. The MITS Altair 8800 running Microsoft BASIC was a hit. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing https://icm.museum