For convenience I've made a quick page for buying some of my #SAMCoupe items with UK shipping included in the price. I'll get more added shortly, but just now there's the recent issues of SAM Revival magazine, pre-order the next issue (27, with The Lower Caverns on disk) and my gold plated SAM PCB keyrings, which help add a few pounds to the development kitty of my SAM projects.

https://www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm

For everything I do for the SAM Coupe, and other platforms, see my main page: https://www.samcoupe.com

Just found an "autoprotec" 5.25" #floppy disc - with protections slides to make them writable or write-protect it.

How to beat NES mario in 0.000005 seconds https://lobste.rs/s/eo4avr #video #assembly #games #retrocomputing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7hU-ovUso

Was there ever a Mac color driver for the ImageWriter LQ?

And here I go computer-sciencey again:

The Composition-Oriented ual Way

Part 1: Foundations - Container-Centric Thinking

https://github.com/ha1tch/ual/blob/main/doc/ual-composition/ual-composition-01.md

ual is a programming language that places containers, not values, at the center of its design. Part 1 explores container-centric thinking and how focusing on where values live rather than what they are creates interesting new approaches to code organization and algorithm design.

Part 1 of 6, the rest of the series is here:
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual/tree/main/doc/ual-composition

The Rubber Keyed Wonder documentary film about the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer is available to preorder on VOD stores. Releases on 21st of April.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/tWTkK4BjKeA

Just got this through the post, it’s in lovely condition, as is the enclosed Speccy. It’s definitely used though and the games pack is obviously not included (that was a separate box at this point) and, let’s be honest, used or not the membrane will be dead #RetroComputing

Happy Pi day!

Here's my collection of RaspberryPis from over the years.

1x RaspberryPi Model B
3x RaspberryPi 3 Model B
4x RaspberryPi Zero W
2x RaspberryPi 5

I use almost all regularly, the 8Gib Pi 5 runs this gotosocial instance and most of others do various retro Macintosh things (TashTalk, RGB2HDMI, USB4VC, BlueSCSI).

I even use the original Model B sometimes with my Sony 9in CRT since it has an RCA composite video out and binaries to decode in hardware, something newer Pis lack due to licensing things.

#raspberrypi #retrocomputing

Twenty nine years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first Newton device to offer a transflective LCD display with EL backlighting.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19981205071558/http://product.info.apple.com:80/pr/press.releases/1996/q2/960314.pr.rel.msgpad130.html

Accidentally left the ImageWriter on overnight and suddenly it wasn't showing up on the network anymore. Left it off and unplugged for a few hours, and everything is fine again.

I seem to remember that something similar happened after I'd been using the ThunderScan for a little while too.

Anybody else ever have things like that happen with theirs too?

#365Games 70

Ultima IV (Origin 1985) #DOS

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI6DMmuxh9M&t=191s

33 years ago this week, Commodore introduced the worst Amiga. I'll still take the worst Amiga over a lot of things. But in March 1992, nobody was asking for the Amiga 600. The Amiga 1200 was what they wanted, and Commodore didn't make enough of those. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/amiga-600-the-amiga-no-one-wanted/

I'm not entirely surprised—I’ve noticed that old digital watches tend to run faster over time. I have a few vintage models from the '70s and '80s that have noticeably picked up speed with age. I always assumed this was due to the natural aging of quartz crystal oscillators, but perhaps there’s more to it than that. Could there be another factor at play?

#gaming #electronics #retrocomputing #retrogaming

https://www.ign.com/articles/speedrunners-left-scratching-their-heads-after-new-discovery-suggests-the-snes-works-faster-as-it-ages?

someone wrote drivers to run Windows 3.1 in HD

https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv

Almost missed it again. Happy Pi day! https://makertube.net/w/oihVEkaKT2UGEtuQeg4QBi
#piday #vic20 #retrocomputing #basic

I've wanted to create a remake of this game for a long time.

Should I share some of the mockups I've made?
Did you ever play it?