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www.youtube.com 9mo ago

The Factory: How the Commodore 64 Ultimate Is Made [video]

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obsolescence.dev 11mo ago

Arpanet Reconstruction Project

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www.goto10retro.com 1y ago

I tried Vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Learn to Build an Al to Play Tempest Step by Step

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neal.fun 1y ago

Internet Artifacts

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novasareforever.org 1y ago

Novas are forever – Data General historical archive

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www.gamefontlibrary.com 1y ago

GameFontLibrary: Video Game Fonts and Typography Database

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www.rsx11m.com 1y ago

Rsx11.com – site dedicated to RSX 11 for PDP-11

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www.forbes.com 1y ago

Gmail Security Warning for 2.5B Users–AI Hack Confirmed

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theprintshop.club 1y ago

A Tongue-in-Cheek Look Back at Broderbund's 'The Print Shop' (2021)

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www.xpertnotes.net 1y ago

Debug: G=C800:5

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github.com 1y ago

Building Tempest Like It's 1980 Again

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

What's Killing All the iMacs? [YouTube]

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arxiv.org 2y ago

LLM Agents Can Autonomously Exploit One-Day Vulnerabilities

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32by32.com 2y ago

Radius Full Page Display

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www.timeextension.com 2y ago

30 Years Ago Today, Commodore Died

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github.com 2y ago

Welcome to the Centurion Computer Wiki

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retrocmp.de 2y ago

Greaseweazle

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

The 8-bit home computer from 1975 you've never heard of [video]

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biosrhythm.com 2y ago

Modern Upgrades for the Hayes Chronograph

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www.verandavikings.com 2y ago

Snowcraft – Building a Lego Snowfort from giant Lego snow-bricks

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cowboyprogramming.com 2y ago

1995 Programming on the Sega Saturn

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aux-penelope.com 2y ago

A/UX Server Penelope: System V Unix for the Classic Macintosh

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www.colino.net 2y ago

Quicktake for Apple II

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www-apache-app.cwm.gtm.ibm.net 2y ago

The Birth of the IBM PC

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finance.yahoo.com 2y ago

Google changed ad auctions, raising prices 15%, witness says

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www.macrumors.com 2y ago

Apple, Other US Tech Firms Sign Letter Protesting India's PC Import Restrictions

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eev.ee 3y ago

Gamedev from Scratch 0: Groundwork

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stevestreza.com 3y ago

The Paywalled Garden: iOS is Adware (2020)

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devblogs.microsoft.com 4y ago

Happy 25th birthday Visual Studio

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First of all. fantastic! As documented in the book _Soul of a New Machine_, Adventure plays a central role in the bring up of the DG "Eagle" / MV8000 machine. It seems to not list it (even if no copies survive) would be a gap.

It was a sort of way to learn code. What does this asm opcode do or this basic function do. As you typed it in. In a way it was like long form watching gif images stream in during the early internet.

Modems we expensive and compuserve or the source charged an hourly rate. If you lived in a city with a node it wasn’t horrible but with long distance it was obscene.

I remember when analog computing came up with a checksum program to check the listing. Game changer. You could be assured your work wasn’t in vein. Pretty soon all the magazines had one and typing in the code was a way to get a cheap game compared to $30-40 for a rom game or disk. All it cost was some time at night playing with your computer. Typing in code to see your machine do something you’d never seen before. A technique or trick. A magical time.

Bill Gates once said that to emulate Steve Jobs you need to be part genius and part asshole. “So many of the people who want to be like Steve have the asshole side down. What they are missing is the genius part”.

Feels like stackoverflow on day 0. At very least make the problems discoverable via Google/bing to grow. Login to comment. Don’t need thr draconian moderation and if done right could be a breath of fresh air.