Andreu RetroCGA

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Just fired my Amstrad just to test this new Mario Bros 2023: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/games/mario-bros-2023/
Mario Bros (2023)

Mario Bros (2023)

CPCWiki forum

OIOPOLIS is a brand new (still in production) RPG indie #Gameboy game. Demo can be played here: https://minihamsterproductions.itch.io/oiopolis-eng

In addition of English, the game is available in my language, Catalan 👌

OIOPOLIS (English) by Mini Hamster Productions

OIOPOLIS English version

itch.io
Holidays near Alès (France) and my host gives me a Minitel 😍
It's a 722 098X (model without retractable keyboard).
It beeps continuousy and nothing on screen. Any clues, common failure? #minitel @jelora

Introducing Bark! Low-latency multi-receiver live-sync lossless audio streaming for local networks. It's like Sonos, but open source, so nobody can brick your devices remotely. It's also written in Rust :)

https://github.com/haileys/bark

It sends 48khz uncompressed float32 data over UDP multicast. It can achieve playback sync to within hundreds of microseconds in ideal conditions, and usually to within a millisecond.

I've been working on it in my spare time over the past week, and I'm pretty happy with how it's shaped up. I have three receivers setup and it works remarkably well at keeping everything in sync as I walk around my house. For now it only really works on Linux, and supports Pipewire (and Pulse in theory), but there's no huge impediment to making it truly cross-platform.

It also features a fancy live stats subcommand, which can used on any computer in the same multicast domain to watch the status of the stream cluster:

GitHub - haileys/bark: live sync audio streaming for local networks

live sync audio streaming for local networks. Contribute to haileys/bark development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Super Video Recording (SVR) was a European video cassette format and a variant of VCR-LP, developed by Grundig and introduced in 1979.

Chrome-dioxide tape was used that allowed slower tape speeds so SVR tapes could offer up to four hours recording time.

The only SVR video recorder made was the Grundig SVR4004, along with a rebadged ITT 240.

The format was replaced by Video 2000 in 1979.

https://obsoletemedia.org/super-video-recording-svr/

Super Video Recording (SVR) (1979) | Museum of Obsolete Media

Super Video Recording (SVR) was a video tape cassette format and a variant of VCR-LP, developed by Grundig and introduced in 1979. The cassettes were physically identical to VCR-LP with the exception…

Museum of Obsolete Media
Popular IKEA Chair Turns Computer Monitor Off, Baffling Everyone

A programmer was confused when his office chair started zapping his 4K monitor. Then he found other people complaining about the same problem.

An Interview with Andrew Gwynne MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health and VIC-20 lover!

"...they’re games you can happily return to 40 years later!"

RAM OK ROM OK
@textfiles cc @andreu who's been uploading recently some "almost lost" MSDOS software :)
My new toy has arrived! A Bull/Telesincro videotext banking terminal. Minitel compatible, in theory.
Will be a big challenge to hack it. First thing, find a serial port and use it as a dumb terminal.
It features a chip+magnetic card reader, printer, and modem...

One of my laptops for "home use" is a Dell Inspiron 1501. It was a present from my dad in 2006. With an SSD, plenty of RAM (4Gb) and Linux it runs pretty smoothly and do "normal life" with traditional apps and recent versions.

It features a 2Ghz AMD Turion with single core.

Can it be considered retro?