Amiga 2000 overdose at the @berlincreators Retro/Amiga meeting, with an Amy ITX sneaking in.
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Charlie Balogh
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Old man yells at Tech. Some say, I'm a hacker. I say I'm just obsolete. Random content, might contain traces of vintage computers and cats. No politics.
media archaeology lab
kusmaNew blog post, Open Source and AI: https://kusma.xyz/blog/2026/03/26/open-source-and-ai/ #openSource #AI
Hardware question - does anyone know what is this connector?
I thought at first it's some sort of JST ZH or PH connector, but it isn't? As far as I can tell. The pin pitch is somewhere around 2.0mm. It's 8mm wide.
I want to do a reversible fan replacement on a Commodore CDTV, and don't want to cut the original wiring.
Edit: it's a Molex MicroBlade, thanks for the boosts and input everyone!
johan halinwe finally have an invitation for 68k inside 2026! it's by smfx for the sinclair ql: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTs2rThJtRA
smfx & dkd & joker - 68k inside 2026 invite - sinclair ql real hardware recording
A forgotten ancient incantation for a secret project is in progress.
Once upon a time, before the internet and subscription services ruined everything, we used to carve bits of data onto the surfaces of translucent plastic disks with lasers. Freaking lasers!
And we did this on computers than were way slower than the chip in a modern car's key fob.
I said it before, and I'll say it again: These cheap mid-90s, late 486 systems are like cockroaches - disgusting, but will survive just about anything, including a nuclear apocalypse.
This one was first used as some desktop machine in a library. When that life ended, it ran 12 years 24/7 as my first Linux server, until the HDD died. Then the next 15 years it rot in corners of various basements. Almost got thrown away several times.
And it lives. 1995 World Domination. 😅
Differences game!
There are a few differences between these two CDTV controllers. Collect them all!
More fun with C264 series - I also got these three "modern" Plus/4 game cartridges a friend bought at some retro meeting to try out. They all work fine, unsurprisingly.
These don't work in a C16, they need more RAM. So out comes my 64K-expanded C116! 😁
The Elite port by Pigmysoft is a true classic, the Stunt Car Racer port is a modern masterpiece. Mad Pod Race I did not know from before -it seems to be a Plus/4 original? Anyway, It was fun to try it out.
Lately it seems to be "the law", that all C264 series must come with a free black Datasette. 😅 This one is no exception. But it also came with three original games on cassette tapes! I don't know when I last loaded software from a tape, but it wasn't in this decade. Or the previous. And likely wasn't in this century.
It needed a bit of "encouragement" and a few tries, but it worked in the end. It's the worst crackout game I've seen - a reminder why these were a flop.
