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My Silent 707/1200 prints super fast, at 1200 baud, and is so pleasant to use. It was the star of my session at Low Resource Computing.

Here's the phone numbers programming into its auto-access cartridge, including the Multiple Listing Service. The previous owner must have been a real-estate agent.

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing


My second Silent 745 has an APL keyboard and works pretty well! I just need a converter from current loop to RS-232 or a phone and modem, and I know nothing about telephony.

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My new Silent 700 teleprinters from this past month! This brings my total to 11 Silent 700s of 9 models and 3 Teletype Model 43s.

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Hi! I just launched a new three month DOS jam!

Don't have enough free time to contribute to a standard game jam? This one's E X T E N D E D.

Please feel free to join in, even (especially!) if you have no experience! It's a very casual vibe, and there are even a few assets to help start you off!

itch.io/jam/ms-tres

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #gamedev #dosgaming #msdos


did a petcat on some of the 2025 BASIC one liner competition entries, in the hopes i could perhaps make a blog post on permacomputer.solarpunk.au

as i should have expected, the code is tightly bound to the retro computer it was designed for, and is quite obfuscated.

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Well! @trcwm and I have been building a custom 68008 computer, and it’s coming along beautifully! The thing I’m most proud of? Getting Rust running natively on it. 🎉

The boot loader is in asm, but I wrote Conway's Game of Life and a Mandelbrot set entirely in no-std Rust. Just needed a custom linker script for the system and that was it. It runs so incredibly well! More to come! #rustlang #m68k #retrocomputing




Even after all this time, I'm still impressed how much the decision to replace dark yellow with an orangey brown in the standard EGA palette improved the overall quality of said palette. Most 16 colour palettes at that time had just the same eight colours twice, once at half and once at full brightness, resulting from the fact that early digital colour monitors had just one bit per colour channel and an additional one for brightness. EGA allowed for two bits per colour channel, resulting in a total of 64 colours, but since it still only used four bits per pixel, you always had a limited palette of 16 simultaneously active colours out of those 64. The standard EGA palette was almost identical to that earlier 16 colours from the CGA era (although CGA could only display all of the colours simultaneously in text mode or in a special undocumented very low resolution 160x100 pixel mode), but that simple switch from dark yellow to brown made the palette much more useful for pixel art.

#ega #cga #retrocomputing #pixelart



Does anyone (in US) have a spare SCSI HDI-30 (male) to DB-25 (female) adapter or cable lying around? I'd be happy to pay postage.

It's to connect a BlueSCSI to 1990s-era PowerBooks.

(eBay sellers want fantasy prices.)

#retrocomputing #powerbook