Also bizarre: ST.GAME is a one-off magazine name change, from Softline. And here it's a dungeon crawl game in BASIC, ported from Applesoft to Atari BASIC for the 8-bit. NOT for Atari ST (this is 1984, a year before the ST comes out).

I'm not typing this in, and the "text" PDF is as usual completely useless.

https://archive.org/details/st.-game-programs-in-pulp-atari-dungeon-fun-bill-beyermann/page/1/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/softline_magazine?sort=title
#retrocomputing #atari

Bizarre retrocomputing find: Hardcore Computist magazine for Apple ][, which is apparently all "how to pirate this particular disk" columns and letters.
https://archive.org/details/computist

On other systems, there were a few copy programs and ROM dump cartridges, but it wasn't that big a deal. The idea that you'd run a magazine with cheats & hacking commands is bizarre.
#retrocomputing #apple

The 1980s Computer, French Style https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/the-1980s-computer-french-style/ #frenchcomputers #Retrocomputing #MatraAlice #6803

It's that time of evening when I start shopping for an Apple IIe Platinum on eBay again #retrocomputing

The 1980s Computer, French Style - Should you travel around Europe, you may notice that things in France are ever so ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/the-1980s-computer-french-style/ #frenchcomputers #retrocomputing #matraalice

I ran down a rabbit hole looking at dumb terminals tonight, and unlocked a memory from 1993 or so.

I guess my main PC was down, I think I had taken something apart and gone to sleep and my girlfriend at the time wanted to dial in to probably Rutgers' Quartz BBS so she plugged everything back in and powered it up. Unfortunately she plugged the 50 pin tape drive into the 50 pin scsi controller and blew out the controller.

Someone had given me a terminal for some reason, an ADM-1A. Since I couldn't live without Internet, I plugged my Intel 14.4k modem into the terminal and could dial up BBSs and the Internet. I had this octagon shaped table in my kitchen where the screws came out of the top when I leaned on it, so I just set the terminal on the table's stand for the perfect workstation. I remember being shocked that there was a termcap entry for this 'obscure' brand terminal I had never heard of.

Anyway, eventually I got a new scsi card. A friend of mine broke something on his Amiga 2000, so I passed the terminal and a Supra 14.4k modem on to him. I didn't have a spare cable, so he wound up taking off one of his guitar strings, cutting it up into small pieces, and painstakingly wiring all 25 pins together. (He got annoyed when I told him he only needed like 6.)

He eventually fixed his Amiga, and gave the terminal to another Quartz user. She used it for a while, I think. Dunno where it went after that. Kind of the terminal version of Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants.

This Tuesday noon PST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET (https://dateful.com/eventlink/2549161210) it’s the Little Tuesday Amiga Stream over on https://twitch.tv/DidierMalenfant

The tutorial level for Spelunky is exported and now we are moving on to some level generating stuff to add the final bits to it.

See you then!

I have to say that seeing a Bendix G-15 in the metal flesh is even more fun after seeing all those Usagi Electric YT videos!

Wooo - need to write some disks for it … and probably fix the disk drives, or maybe try to get a GoTek working #RetroComputing

Can’t get Windows 95 to run in #QEMU 9.2.3 on #macOS. It worked fine when I last tried it in 2023 or 2024, though.

I’m getting a “Windows protection error” on first boot during the installation. Even my existing image that used to work now fails with the same error.

Is it time to switch to #86Box?

This time we're netbooting OS/2 Warp.

Like McDonald's, I'm lovin' it!

Disk-less Tandys Part III - OS/2 Warp Connect 3.0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=d16FVexFxfw

More experiments with isometric graphics sets for the C64! It's impressive what can be done even with the built in VIC graphics modes!

Printed myself a 68xx #reference guide and put it in a binder. It'll be nice having a paper reference while I'm working on the Time Machine #Pinball #disassembly effort.

I've really been enjoying having a color #printer of my very own, and I'm especially happy about the fact that I haven't even put a visible dent in the ink tank fill indicators from the first fillup. The #EcoTank was pricey, but not having to be skimpy on ink usage is worth it.

I make & sell dummy battery things since needing one in the lab myself. I conceived the little assembly of 3D printing and wire that lets you do in-situ current measurement or power injection in the tiny space where coin cells live.

Hobbyists, #makers, labs, #retrogaming and #retrocomputing nerds found them and send me orders which I grudgingly fill for a tiny fraction of minimum wage. The version shown here lets you relocate the battery outside a hard-to-access cabinet for easy changes.

Petit stream ce soir, en français pour une fois :

Assemblage d'une alimentation USB-C pour Thomson MO5

Des pièces imprimées en 3D à assembler, un peu de soudure…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtNQQXzd1gQ

https://www.twitch.tv/mmu_man