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Retro tech meets modern AI: Inside an Amazon developer's garage turned working computer museum – GeekWire

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:40:01 +0000

“I started getting stuff, and then … it just kind of snowballed to a point I actually had to slow down because I legitimately don’t have space for it anymore,” Mesaros told GeekWire during a recent tour of his retro hardware labyrinth.

Tags: #hardware #nifty #retro

How to install an app on your Commodore 64 - Anil Dash

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:55:23 +0000

You will need to ask your mom if you can ride your bike to the mall. The dirt mall is closer, but the magazine stand at the dirt mall doesn’t carry any computer magazines, so you’ll need to take a longer ride to the good mall, where the book store actually has computer magazines. It’s a couple of miles to the mall, so usually you would have a friend come with you, but you called their house and nobody picked up, so today it’s a solo trip.

Tags: #commodore #retro

Decent400 | Hackaday.io

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:50:48 +0000

A drop-in replacement mechanical keyboard for the Atari 400's membrane, that respects the unique design of the computer

Tags: #atari #atari400 #diy #hacks #hardware #retro

Vector & Vertex | Roger Boesch | Substack

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:08:23 +0000

Building the future on 1982 hardware. A devlog about Vectrex engineering, modern indie dev, and the code that connects them. Click to read Vector & Vertex, by Roger Boesch, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Tags: #feeds:subscriptions #gaming #retro #vectors #vectrex

Metal Gear Solid running natively on the ESP32-S3 | Velxio Blog

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:22:23 +0000

I have loved Metal Gear Solid since I was a kid. When I got a tiny ESP32-S3 board, one question stuck with me: could a PlayStation game run on something this small?

Tags: #diy #esp32 #gaming #hardware #metalgear #psx #retro

Mille Bornes

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:21:42 +0000

The game was a popular alternative to Bridge and, as Parker Brothers stated in the US introduction, became “a French Card Game Craze.” To keep up with demand Dujardin moved production from the basement of his family’s home in Arcachon to a renovated fish factory. In all, more than a million copies were sold in France in the 1950s.

Tags: #cards #games #retro

Mille Bornes : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:18:58 +0000

Mille Bornes is a French card game, sold by Parker Brothers that simulates a car race of 700 kilometers. This is a computer adaption of that game.

Tags: #cards #games #retro

MCU-less teletype terminal using Alphacom printer | Hackaday.io

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:59:35 +0000

Period-correct technology would probably be a VDU terminal or its predecessor, a teletype terminal, which is an electric typewriter that sends serial output from its keyboard and prints serial input onto paper. Here's where the Alphacom printer comes in. It was compatible and contemporary with the ZX81 and was a better option in many ways than Sinclair's ZX Printer. (The ZX computers had built-in line-printer capabilities.) Importantly there are plenty of the Alphacoms around today, working fine.

Tags: #hardware #rc2014 #retro #z80

A Computer Terminal The Old Way | Hackaday

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:58:43 +0000

Here in 2026 if we need a terminal the chances are we fire one up on our computer and continue on our way without a thought. What we are doing of course is emulating the experience of earlier hardware terminals, ones with a serial port on the back, a keyboard, a screen, or if they are a bit older, a teletype printer. [Sheila Dixon] is recreating that experience for the RC2014 retrocomputer, and she’s using some period-appropriate hardware and techniques.

Tags: #hardware #rc2014 #retro

How The Oregon Trail became a generational icon | The Verge

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:29:55 +0000

Whether you played it in the back of your classroom or on your computer at home, if you were a kid in the last 30 years you almost certainly grew up playing The Oregon Trail.

Tags: #80s #gaming #oregon #retro

Byte - a visual archive

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:23:29 +0000

This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right). The search bar runs RE2 regex over the full text of all 100k pages. The archive itself is not new, scans of BYTE have long existed on the Internet Archive and elsewhere on the net – but I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.

Tags: #byte #computers #history #magazines #nifty #retro

USBSID-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB - SmallRun

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:57:20 +0000

I am LouD (short for loudness) and I created USBSID-Pico to bridge real SID silicon directly to modern workstations, phones, and media players over USB (CDC/WebUSB/WebSerial), MIDI, ASID and in the future possibly WiFi and Bluetooth. Powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller series (rp2040 and rp2350), the board acts as a flexible controller for up to two (and soon four) physical SID chips or modern hardware replacements.

Tags: #c64 #commodore #hardware #raspi #retro #sid

About OpenWF

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:30:11 +0000

OpenWF is a community project to play Warframe offline, specifically for preservation and customization.

Tags: #gaming #nifty #retro #warframe

retrobuiltRyan/pixelvision_av1000_mkII: 10in display monitor for HDMI and legacy analog video

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:30:55 +0000

10in display monitor for HDMI and legacy analog video

Tags: #hardware #retro #video

TERMinator - BBS Terminal

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:19:19 +0000

is a modern BBS Terminal emulator built for the retro computing community. Connect to Bulletin Board Systems around the world using Telnet, TelnetS (SSL), and SSH.

Tags: #bbs #retro #ssh #telnet #tools