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I created PicoGUS, an ISA card that can emulate sound cards like the Gravis Ultrasound, Sound Blaster, and MPU-401: https://picog.us I’m a retrocomputing generalist! Also on Fedi at https://bitbang.social/@polpo In Colorado, USA
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I have finally entered the retro PC MIDI era! Both of these units needed some minor repair but nothing too tricky. (Just some bad joints on the connectors.) Paired with my PicoGUS (thanks @polpo.org) old DOS games sound awesome!

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 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 2 days ago • 2 comments

Anybody know what this is? A search for "Microsoft Windows Graphical Environment Working Model" doesn't yield any results. Won't be able to try the disks myself for a few days.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This weekend I’m polishing up CDROM emulation on PicoGUS and verified that it works in Windows 98. Once I figure out a nice way to switch disc images and make a utility for it I will release a new firmware version.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

It brings me no pleasure to announce that the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation New Balances go exceptionally hard

submitted 4 days ago • 65 comments

Meet two of the five working prototypes of the release version of Sentinel 65X that exist. These things boot and run. We just need to shake out any last bugs.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

SilverStone reveals the FLP02 late-80s style beige tower PC case at Computex 2025. Wow this is going to be awesome! Link: www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Made it to #RMRRF for a bit!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

#PicoGUS can now emulate both a CDROM drive and Sound Blaster in parallel, smoothly playing both CD audio and SB sound effects simultaneously. Still a lot of polish to do before a new firmware release but I'm excited!! This is MechWarrior 2 with bin/cue stored on a USB stick plugged into the PicoGUS

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Randomly saw this new United Airlines seatmap for their 787 flights on Reddit and I was flabbergasted. There are only 10 rows of normal seats on this entire airplane. Over half is taken up by little lie flat bed suites. Who is affording this or flying enough to get upgraded to this? Boggles my mind

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments