Grafikprogramme auf einen Blick: Marktübersicht | 64'er Magazin
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#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Sie möchten die Grafikfähigkeiten des C 64 nutzen? Dann brauchen Sie Grafiksoftware. Diese Marktübersicht soll Ihnen die Auswahl erleichtern.
I'm late to the party, but I see Japan sold 3.5" floppy disks of MIDI music (SMF=Standard MIDI Files) from pop bands in the 90's. It also looks like they were sometimes sold in a CD jewel case but with a special insert to hold a floppy disk.
I couldn't find a 3D model for a floppy jewel case insert, so I remixed one. New model uploaded linked below.
Your band's next floppy release, maybe? 
https://www.printables.com/model/1365838-35-floppy-disk-jewel-case-insert
Someday I really should also track down a good 9-track tape drive to recover some of these even older files archived on mag tapes. These represent an even bigger challenge, not just because of the variety of media (with densities from 800bpi - 6250bpi, but probably most commonly 1600bpi), but also from the variety of archiving formats: VAX/VMS backups, BSD/Ultrix/SunOS dumps and/or tape archives, and whatever format I was using to write files from NOS on the Cyber.
Stumbled across my old NeXT "floptical" disc while looking through old boxes at the office! I've been wondering where this had gone for a few decades now: I have archives of most of my files from 1992 (when we founded Omni) through the present, but this was where I had archived my active files for several of the years prior.
Now to see if any of our NeXT cubes still has a working magneto-optical drive that can read this data…
[2025-07-26 02:08:03]: wesc just logged into node 1 with the EInstEIn-rOsEn brIdgE theme #retrocomputing #bbs #sysop #mysticbbs #tqwNet
[2025-07-26 02:07:00]: wesc has just registered to use the BBS #retrocomputing #bbs #newuser #mysticbbs #tqwNet
[2025-07-26 02:00:02]: MRC Meatup: thE grAvY trAIn - at 21:00 BST this sAtUrdAY, Jul 26th 2025 #retrocomputing #mrc #gravytrain #bbs #sysop #mysticbbs #tqwNet
does your website load and render on windows 98? #retrozilla #retrocomputing https://maple.pet
Wait wait wait, there is an embedded PC standard with AGP? **gasp**
I've upgraded to the newest, fanciest version of Mastodon for Apple II (by @colin_mcmillen), along with the accompanying update to surl-server. My IIgs has been sitting unused for a few months as I sorted out a lot of things in the office and dealt with the summer chaos. But it deserves to be up and running here in the corner, so I've tidied up its table and reconnected all the many cables.
Sprites ohne Geheimnisse | 64'er Magazin
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Sprites sind für manchen Einsteiger reizvolle, aber schwer zu programmierende Gebilde. Man muß viele Register kennen und mit Binärzahlen arbeiten. Dieser Artikel soll Ihnen helfen, beide Hürden zu meistern.
Who remembers making "fun names" in #Quake? I just uploaded "PM's Cooler Namebuilder" to archive.org. I haven't been able to find the original zip file anywhere, but I had the binary handy so decided I'd better get it preserved.
Finally got my hands on one of these babys, wanted one for so long, gorgeous 
#Acorn #Electron #RetroComputing
@vkc
Did anybody else used to write websites using awk or was it just me?
#WebEditing #WebDev #WWW #AWK #RetroComputing
I don’t think the Macintosh ever supported the Okimate printer but it should have.
Made an OS/2 Warp 3-ish theme for my X11 window manager and finally added support for showing application icons in the top left corner.
Unfocused windows have a slightly darker border (unlike in OS/2), which helps me identify which window has focus.
(The WM is keyboard-driven only, hence I left out the minimize/maximize buttons in the right corner.)
(Is X11 #RetroComputing yet?)
Back with the 4040: as usual the drive is a dual CPU system. The second CPU is a regular 6502. One processor handles the IEEE488 bus and DOS routines, while the other is dealing with the GCR encoding and talking to the drive mechanisms.
On the 1541 this is all reduced to one CPU.
#commodore #floppydisk #commodorePET #retrocomputing
I really need to find an excuse to bring my A500 (w/ TF536) out of storage more, if only just to admire the black case from A1200.net, they do such a good job. At some point I need to do the keypads too, but I kind of like the white on black. For Amiga owners with multiple machines, do you have specific tasks you like to do with each, or do you just have one as your primary?
I ordered a BlueSCSIv2 for my Indigo2 because the original 2.3G Quantum in there is not long for this world. It's also ridiculously small for an Irix 6.5 install. Full install with demos comes out to 1.7G of the 2.0G root volume.
And those demos are important, because I intend to show off this machine. #retrocomputing
Got an Indigo2 back running over the last few days. It's been 30 years or so since I used to do support on them.
When I needed to determine the root password, it took about 30 seconds to remember how. It's been so long, I have no memory of ever doing it before. I have no memory of how I learned it. It was the weirdest thing, as if the knowledge sprang from some deity, fully formed, into my mind.
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