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I'm an oldskool gamer, coder, and demoscener. Co-created mobygames. I make videos about vintage computing at http://youtube.com/TheOldskoolPC . Existential nihilist.
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The video from my talk at VCF East 2025, "Making a Hardware Emulator for a Legendary PC Sound Card" is now on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTLA...

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

I was really disappointed when I couldn't repair the Amstrad ALT-286, but I think what I ended up with is even better: youtu.be/K4rSkNn_MxM

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

First used: Apple II, 1979 First used extensively: Osborne, 1981 (Colossal Cave Adventure) First online: IBM PC/XT, 1983, CompuServe (at a friend's house whose father had free phone service, thank goodness) First owned: AT&T 6300, 1985 First built from parts: 386DX-40, 1993

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS SET FOR DELETION! If you or anyone you know works at Google/YouTube, please get in contact at [email protected] A more detailed series of events can be found in the video below this post

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

My obit for Bill Atkinson

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

RIP Stingray / Scoopex :( eab.abime.net/showthread.p...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I can't remember the last time I had absolutely nothing scheduled for a day. Maybe today is the day I finally spend some time working on myself, envisioning how I want the rest of my life to play out.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind www.wired.com/story/bill-a...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

He stole someone's demoscene music and now he's just gonna steal everyone's music.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

#FujiNet is a WiFi Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming systems. It speaks JSON, XML, and HTTPS, so it can talk to any Internet endpoint, directly. We use it for FujiNet 5 Card Stud, so this DOS based IBM #PCjr has no problem speaking JSON. :)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

FujiNet is a Powerful Wi-Fi Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming users. It is a public project that anyone can help make better. And we need that help to get to more platforms. What can you do to help? Read and see. fujinet.online/help-wanted/

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

How does everyone feel about 4:3 videos on YouTube? Some creative videomakers choose 4:3 output as an aesthetic choice, but my interest comes from covering historical material originally only available in that ratio, like computer game footage. Such a video would have over 90% 4:3 source material.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

New video! Saving a Sad SNES - restoring the legendary 90s game console. Something a bit different this time :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPbb... #Nintendo #SNES #Famicom #SuperFamicom #90s #retrogaming

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

A nice overview of #demoscene "wild" category Wild demo - the wildest of demoscene competitions by frog translate.kagi.com/translate/ht...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Five years ago, I wrote about how AI-generated synthetic media threatens to overwhelm the historical record of our era with fabricated artifacts and events, triggering an age of "post-history." Given new developments with Google Veo 3, it's still relevant today www.fastcompany.com/90549441/how...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

VCFMW call for presentations now open: www.vcfmw.org/talks/ If you are coming to #vcfmw this year and wanted to give a talk, our submission form is now open until the end of July.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The creators of Myst series (@cyan.com) saved hundreds of video tapes from the making of their iconic adventure game franchose. We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

Heads up folks, the scammer Sean Lee Robinson, aka "Geek With Social Skills" is posting videos again This person scammed myself and others out of a considerable amount of money DO NOT engage with this person If you need more info, watch the video below, google them, etc

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments