I had hoped to pop into the Centre of Computing History this weekend as they've a Dragon 32 event and say 'hello' but despite being up and down to Cambridgeshire every week at the moment I'm not able to make things coincide to be there.

But, I have designed another PCB Badge to add my growing range, this time it is of the Dragon 32!

https://www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117105786267

All helps add a few pounds to the development fund for everything #retrocomputing I'm working on!

#dragon32 #retrogaming #gamedev

Edit: Since this is getting some boosts, I found some old repos online for setting up dev tools locally for gcc in QNX. I don't think BB10 came to my playbook model. I haven't tried to set anything up yet, but if there's interest I can post more.

OP:
Hey fellow #RetroComputing #RetroTech weirdos (affectionate),

Over a decade ago, Blackberry was just giving their tablet, the Playbook, away to anyone who offered to try developing apps for it. They didn't last long enough to ask for it back. So natch, I got one and played with it a bit.

Now, it's still fully functional and collecting dust. None of the upstream infra or app store exists anymore, but I was hoping to still screw around with it. It's #QNX, an RTOS, which is neat. Right?

Anyway, does anyone else mess around with this kind of thing? The apps needed to be signed to work, even in dev mode.

the AI "boom" gives orgs a false sense of security about not having to hire juniors anymore

if the AI revolution works out in favor of AI, you're still gonna need senior staff to verify the code and do due diligence

where are you finding them and when are you training those when you've eliminated your supply of juniors?

if the AI bubble bursts, you all of a sudden are in dire need of juniors, who are either gone, really expensive or cant be trained by your now deskilled seniors

For a future restoration project I'm going back to 1980.

The rare and elusive Transam Tuscan. An S-100 bus computer that made the commodore PET look dainty.

The entry-level model apparently cost £2,125 without the twin floppy drives.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

Mini Multi-Arcade Game Cabinets with an ESP32 and Galagino

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/11/mini-multi-arcade-game-cabinets-with-an-esp32-and-galagino/

System76 fighting for open source being excluded from Colorado age checks https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/system76-fighting-for-open-source-being-excluded-from-colorado-age-checks/

#Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming