For the Xorg purists and those with older Unix workstations, this might make your old hardware feel new again. Restoring 2D hardware acceleration to older GPUs.
dexterous
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A retro computing fanatic who loves to collect, tinker with and play on old computers and the tech that's grown up around them.
First KFF2 build, alongside its little brother.
Whilst the KFF1 works fine on the Ultimate64, C64 Reloaded II & Mega65, the KFF2 may never do so & thats perfectly fine. None of those machines need the KFF2.
mirabilosWhat the actual fuck, #LetsEncrypt‽
Let’s Encrypt will no longer include the “TLS Client Authentication” Extended Key Usage (EKU) in our certificates beginning in 2026.
That makes them unusable for SMTP servers. Gah!
Anyone got a usable alternative that doesn’t ruin financially?
Update: I’m in communication with them, let’s hope they recognise the usefulness.
Update 2: turns out it’s Google forcing this down the throat of all CAs that want to be recognised by Chrome as valid. I’m sure Google only accidentally decided on a new policy that breaks some SMTP and probably all XMPP use cases… 🤬
Update 3: not only are people on the Let’s Encrypt side obnoxious in trying to discuss away the problem, and saying hundreds of affected users is of no importance (what a privilegued thing to say…) and that LE is only a web CA… but they now also say that, if someone has a certificate and key for hostname.example.com and has reverse and reverse-forward DNS for their IP addresses matching that, that that should not mean that they are allowed to send out mail as hostname.example.com (?!?!?! I cannot even begin to understand the sick “reasoning” that has to be behind such a statement). They also say they think the removal of the TLS client key usage from server certs to be “years overdue”. This deliberate working against actual users’ needs is… just wrong (I have much stronger words but will refrain, for now).
Time to hope for @jwildeboer ’s https://nerdcert.eu/ to lift off and be included in the usual Root CA bundles (except Google Chrome’s, I suppose).
The Universe of Commodore 64A PIG QUEST 2 – This really MUST happen
Given the popularity of the original game and the dedication of the developers, a sequel cannot be ruled out in the future. The historical big words of this new game project:
“As of today Antonio and I decided to start working on the development of another PIG QUEST game. Working title (and hopefully not final) : THE LAST PIG.”
https://c64universe.com/2025/05/01/a-pig-quest-2-this-really-must-happen/
Finished building a clone of the CMD FD-2000 (board from corei64.com, case from PCBWay). It's amazing that in this day and age, we're able to bring back old tech for everyone to enjoy! This was not an inexpensive build by any stretch. It was however significantly cheaper than an original. And it's 100% new (used a new old stock ALPS floppy drive).
MoreFunMakingItJust finished the last repair from the last pile @[email protected] sent. And now got this little lot to do next!
Bloody lovely!
I bet the Vader has cold solder on the power jack.
The c64 will be bad PLA.
All of the spectrums will be different variations on the DC circuit gone bad
Bloody lovely!
I bet the Vader has cold solder on the power jack.
The c64 will be bad PLA.
All of the spectrums will be different variations on the DC circuit gone bad
The Atari 2600. One of my first loves!
One of my favourite restores. Recapped, knobs polished, joystick internals replaced with Best Electronics CX40 gold plated PCB, new stem and boot, then the trims re-painted with a custom blend enamel. I did 2 of the CX40 joysticks the same way.
Very happy with the way this one turned out.
Small slice of an Enterprise64 demo by Genesis Project! A group that every C64 aficionado should be intimately familiar with.
The Enterprise64. Truly a tale of what could have been. An incredibly capable little machine, i've upgraded this one with 512KB RAM, and internal ROM mod (with builtin BASIC) & an external shugart drive interface w/gotek.
Some of my favourites, dominating the lounge room. Fortunately for me, I have a very understanding wife!
