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.

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The Pig and her poster have been reunited. MissPiggy ran XENIX-11 at Microsoft from 1979 to 1987. These days, misspiggy runs Version 7 UNIX from which XENIX was derived and its disks are virtualized so they can run under simulation and the real hardware.

Please support our preservation efforts at https://icm.museum

We have a partial backup of MissPiggy and one day hope to run XENIX-11 on it once again.

#community #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #unix #microsoft #history

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Your friendly neighbourhood Disk Jockey has been updated to easily create images for the great new Snow emulator (with multiple partitions if that's your jam).

https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu
https://snowemu.com

Never obsolete? That is a bold statement computer, from the 2000s. 🫣

🧵 Tribute to the revolutionary Amiga 1000, which pushed digital audiovisuals to new heights in 1985.

I loved the Amiga conversion of Marble Madness, and completing the game with a joystick was harder than using a mouse.

#gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #VintageComputing #retro #commodore #amiga #computers #computing #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #old #design #artwork #digital #DigitalArt #art #artist #arte #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt

So after finally getting my framework for making tools for classic Mac OS in a usable state last weekend, this weekend my project was to start getting familiar with the AppleTalk APIs.

I'm now scanning all of #GlobalTalk in 8 seconds flat!

A wee bit faster than the HyperCard XCMD setup I was using for TalkCrawler earlier this year...

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

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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Remember cheerful '90s car upholstery?
@vwestlife Is there a term for that style? Like "roller skating rink carpet" or "Sega Genesis magazine ad background?"
@vwestlife Very occasionally there's a hint of playfulness these days; otherwise it's Grim & Grey All Day. I miss whimsy
@vwestlife Canadian city buses carried the torch at least well into the 2010s!
@themaritimegirl @vwestlife some of Melbourne’s suburban trains still carry the torch to this day
@themaritimegirl @vwestlife Hides all the dirt. We still have buses where I live with that pattern

@vwestlife yeah. Same as with my local bus lines...

  • Can we please get that back?

@vwestlife was just typing "is that a neon" and then I saw the VW floor mat

and I'd like to say MY 1992 VW Golf did NOT have such fun upholstery but then, my dad bought it for himself, so he may have consciously dodged it

@vwestlife

I had a 2007 Volvo V70R which was Onyx Black with Atacama leather interior. Best car I ever owned ❤️

Not mine, but similar…