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brassicgamer.bsky.social
UK-based vintage gaming and computing fanatic. Curating, restoring and using ancient PC tech since 1993 for that nostalgia hit. He/him, ADHD/BPD.
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Mother card is my new favourite phrase.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

If you see this, post something orange.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I see there is no love lost between BlueSCSI and ZuluSCSI. Maybe someone will test both and show which one actually performs best. 🍿

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

men will literally play super mario on a 32" woodgrain crt in a garage instead of going to therapy

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

A thoroughly great read for anyone interested in Floppy Disc Controllers ( FDCs ). This deep-dive lifts the lid off the Intel 8271 and reveals something very special "It's a massive chip, encompassing dual cores and a Javascript like execution model." scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/11/reve...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Has anyone else found that games they used to have no problem playing are now giving them motion sickness? Duke Nukem 3D, Half Life 2 and Carmageddon TDR 2000 have all made me feel super nauseous.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

From Amiga Format's Annual 1993, released at the end of 1992: AF's vision of the Amiga of the Future. Inspired by the then-recent release of the A600, this portable Amiga sports an LCD screen and a CD player. The specs for the miggy of 95? 030 processor, 2MB of RAM, AGA, and PCMCIA and IDE.

submitted 93 days ago • 25 comments

I never had any of these consoles as we had a PC, so I experienced the golden age of DOS games in parallel to the 32-bit console explosion. Similarly my favourite gaming era though.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 16 days ago • 874 comments

We could convince ourselves of anything back then.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

1/ I'm getting around to this. Here's a little video of the top case so you can see what I'm dealing with. Pray for my fingernails, this is gonna be skanky.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Frogfind WAP edition is real!

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments