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#retrocomputing on main, politics in the replies. If you *just* want the retrotech, https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/ is my retrodev blog.

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Putting this on every self-eval now www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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To my considerable surprise, I seem to be consistently capping out at 3, with many contenders at that point. Immediate answers are: Zanac (NES); Castlevanias 1, 2, and Bloodlines; Ristar; X-Wing; TIE Fighter. Others were not bought that many times but included GOG/Steam license sharing or similar.

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This week's #retrocomputing article on my blog, introducing the 1981 TI-99/4A, has been making a bigger splash than my system tours usually do, so maybe folks here might enjoy it too! bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/t... #ti994a

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Getting deeply weird behavior out of a test program for the new system I'm looking at and ultimately realizing that I've actually found an emulator bug.

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our indie game in 15 seconds

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Today's strange #retrocomputing fact: Tandy (whose TRS-80 was part of the "holy trinity" of 1977 home computing) and Coleco (first SoC home game console, and later the Colecovision, the most powerful game console of the Atari era) started out as leatherworking companies.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

My Discord client, Discord Messenger, now runs on Windows 98! (And also, 95, but you need extra stuff. Win98SE runs it right out of the box.)

submitted 21 days ago • 50 comments

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

submitted 22 days ago • 60 comments