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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 was traveling for a week and intended to work on CDROM support for #PicoGUS while on the road but forgot the charger for my Pocket386, whoops. Now I'm home. Back in the day I liked how the opening FMV in Return to Zork called back to the original text adventures while saying LOOK AT OUR CD POWER

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Behold the power tilt mechanism on the Apple RGB monitor.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Dan’s VCF videos are unparalleled in their exhaustiveness. I’m not sure how he does it!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I have worked with Polar Filament to get color matched Classic Mac Platinum PLA filament made - only $21.99 per kilogram. WOO HOO! Order now, order plenty, and let them know you want them to print it forever! polarfilament.com/pr...

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Want to add Wi-Fi to your DOS PC? BlueSCSI DayaPORT has you covered! RetroTechChris wrote a packet driver for the BlueSCSI in DOS, and has more plans for it, stay tuned! We'll update our DOS premade SCSI images soon! github.com/cml37/daynap...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

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 14 days ago • 21 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 15 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 16 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 16 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 17 days ago • 63 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.

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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 21 days ago • 11 comments

Made it to #RMRRF for a bit!

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#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 23 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 26 days ago • 2 comments