Dateiverwaltung ist nicht gleich Datenbank | 64'er Magazin
https://www.64er-magazin.de/8505/datenbank.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Alle reden über Dateiverwaltung. Über die vielfältigen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und über Vor- und Nachteile der verschiedenen Programme. Wenig verbreitet ist jedoch das Wissen darum, was eine Dateiverwaltung eigentlich ist und welche Unterschiede zu Datenbanken bestehen.
My first real computer, following some of the early game consoles. Well, I had a Commodore 128 to be exact, but I spent about 95% of my time playing games in C64 mode. 
𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙤𝙧𝙚 64: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙨' 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮
Oh look - it's a new blog post, an introduction to the USCD p-System Editor, *written on* the UCSD Pascal Editor:
https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/29/ucsd-pascal-in-depth/
Yes, this means that my #Rust #psystem utility can successfully copy files off of the emulator disk image, and convert them into Mac-formatted text, from the frankly bizarre format that's native to the text editor.
Does anyone have a copy of Forest Baskett's paper: "Pascal and Virtual Memory in a Z8000 or MC68000 based Design Station," COMPCON 80, Digest of Papers, pp 456-459, IEEE Computer Society, Feb. 25, 1980?
Selectric Typewriter Goes From Trash Can To Linux Terminal (2023) https://lobste.rs/s/bpf18i #hardware #retrocomputing
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/25/selectric-typewriter-goes-from-trash-can-to-linux-terminal/
Edit (9PM Eastern): pushing the stream out to 9:30,kiddos refuse to go to sleep.
Tonight at 9 PM Eastern, I'll be getting back to #Zig! The emulator is going to need graphics, so we'll start with just getting something on the screen.
I'll be trying to get raylib running on Linux, which I have failed to do once, but succeeded on Mac.
It'll be exciting!
Who just bought two 30cm IDC-10 cables? This guy.
Because this guy previously didn't order long enough ones, so this guy has to spend more correcting a silly mistake.
This guy sometimes sucks. Don't listen to this guy.
Retro videogame fiction, mostly gamebooks, type-in-and-reads.
I've posted about this before, but it got a bunch more books since then.
https://archive.org/details/RetroGamingBooksFiction
#retrocomputing
Heyo, I'm new to Wafrn and a former Cohost user. I love retro computers and I may blog about it from time to time.
Why Wafrn? Most fedi stuff is too "fast" for my tastes. Even the Mastodon instance I'm signed onto has a 500 character limit, but I'm used to writing in-depth posts about my adventures with old devices or retro computers or whatever.
I may get the ball rolling by posting some of my older and newer write-ups on here, and test to see how I like this platform. I hope to meet new friends and stuff.
Here's an old photo I took of my 2004 laptop running NetBSD (Omoikane: 256 MB of RAM, no SSE2 instructions, etc).
See ya around.
(EDIT: just noticed the photo isn't showing up for some Mastodon users, I may have to take a different approach. Here's a similar photo of my laptop from my Neocities: https://jetsetruri.neocities.org/blog/2024-06-24_omoikane-001.jpg )
carefully separating sheets of linefeed paper and ripping off the edges to use in my laser printer, as you do when you run out of modern printer paper
Crossing Commodore Signal Cables on Purpose - On a Commodore 64, the computer is normally connected to a monitor with one compos... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/crossing-commodore-signal-cables-on-purpose/ #retrocomputing #commodore64 #chiptune #analog #filter #audio #video #c64
These last days I've actually implemented the things I wanted to do since a while in my 6502 debugger, and it now counts cycles with page-crossing penalties, resolves y-indirect "($nn), y" memory accesses, warns me when a function returns with a stack imbalance.
It can now also exclude files or segments from the symbol-resolving, which is good when your projects have nine opponents sharing the same segment at different times.
I'm impatient to use all that extra help on my next project!
3dfx Voodoo 5 now works with ReactOS!
Today is a good day for retrocomputing fans as they can now use ReactOS with the old 3dfx Voodoo 5 graphics card that was powerful at its time. Congratulations!
ReactOS is an “open-source Windows” operating system that provides support for most Windows applications that support Windows XP using the NT 5.2 compatibility layer. Games can now run with ReactOS on computers that use the 3dfx Voodoo 5 graphics card.
You can now run such games with the old binary drivers for the Voodoo 5 “VSA-100” that are built for Windows. This graphics card is compatible with ReactOS, because the compatibility layer works very well with it. However, further patches may be required to further improve the retro gaming experience.
If you want full performance out of your Voodoo 5 during your gaming sessions, you must install MesaFX/WickedGL.
Thirty years ago to do the day (29th April 1995) I unveiled my "Quazar Surround" soundcard for the SAM Coupe computer at the Gloucester SAM & Spectrum show. This was my first hardware release for the SAM, with the soundcard adding multichannel digital sound, with surround sound outputs. A stereo sampler module followed, and oh so much vital software support!
Now, with initial pre-orders almost fully shipped out, orders are fully open for the latest edition of this fantastic sonic interface! So grab yourself a new Quazar Surround soundcard bundle at:
https://www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm
(Two options available - with introductory software on either floppy disks or a SD card if you've the Trinity Ethernet Interface for mass storage on your SAM.)
Curious to hear what it can do - there's a few tracks on the audio CD with issue 11 of SAM Revival magazine - see the quick shop link above to grab that issue!
A few spectrums at the local auction house (Bangor NI) #retrocomputing #sinclair #spectrum with a dktronics keyboard.
Why and when did we lose the ability to create designs like this and make all tech boring black boxes?
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