Scott Small 🇨🇦

@smallsco@oldbytes.space
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Just a 30something Canadian dude from #VancouverIsland who's into #RetroComputing (mainly old #Apple / #Mac stuff), #Programming, and general #Technology enthusiast. Also love to #Travel!

I wrote a Mastodon client for vintage Mac computers, #Macstodon, which you can get from here: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

Occasionally I’ll post about #Anime and #Gaming, especially #ZenlessZoneZero and #HonkaiStarRail.

I boost a lot. Boosts are not endorsements.

DMs from non-followers are blocked due to spam.

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one of the problems with being a retrocomputerist is how often I use a 2025 program and think "this program would be just as functional and 10 times as nice to use if you'd written it for windows 95"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOO DENG!!!

two blog posts in one day! I've been sitting on these MacPaint files for a few weeks to share them but haven't had the time to sort em out until today - there's so many more, I love this stuff

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html

MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

40 years later and the art people painstaking made in MacPaint on their little Macs still amazes me.

decryption's blog
How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)

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NEW VIDEO: How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)
Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer to the release of the Apple QuickTake 200 digital camera than it did to Stegosaurus.

Saw someone with a profile yesterday stating they hate people who boost posts “too much”.

If you all weren’t so damned witty, interesting, and talented, I wouldn’t run afoul (🐔) of this.

Apparently Kari and Tory from Mythbusters started a podcast last month called "Mythfits". The charming first episode (worth a listen all the way through) also explains why they left the show 10 years ago, in the last 5 minutes.

And it's such a typical Hollywood screwjob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sah3Ik-iy8

Did Kari and Tory Ever Date? And Why They REALLY Left Mythbusters...

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Why are keyboards using the QWERTY layout?
Spoiler alert, it's because of morse code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFkC3F0lmjA

#qwerty #keyboard #history

Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks

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I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Updated #curl to 8.14.1
- Updated #mbedTLS to 3.6.4
- Enabled HTTP 3xx redirections

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

Screenshot is showing both, the DOS ( @DOSBox_Staging ) and the the win32 version (Win10).

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS

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This is my summer project. I just a #acorn RiscPC600 :)
@inlovewithpda Oh wow, that’s awesome! Which configuration does yours have? What do you plan to run on it?
@stdevel It seems to be the stock pc600 version. I just want to restore it and play around with riscos. Just got it for 100 € :)
@inlovewithpda That’s a decent price, congratulations!
@stdevel yes, I didn't though long about. It just placed an offer and was very surprised that I got it
@inlovewithpda oooooh, the future! :-)
@inlovewithpda Great, I hope you will tell us more about your summer project in our next podcast episode 😀.