Fortran As She Is Wrote

    8 IF(NM.EQ.60)GOTO 15 
      CALL MOVEG(B,-OC,NM,MOVESI,MOVESJ,DIR,LC,JAA,IAA, 
     +IM,NOMVE,NFLIP) 
      IF(IM.EQ.0)GOTO 12
      WRITE(1,713)

My first time installing OS/2. Let's see if I can get Warp 3 dual booting with my existing WFW install.

Fantastic #retrogaming event hosted at #ChicoState by the amazing Non-Profit Tech Toss.

About 20+ retro consoles were available free to play including: #atari2600 #nes #wii and more.

We desperately need these third spaces to let ourselves play, be kids again, and remind us there is still joy to be found.

https://theorion.com/104803/arts/good-ol-game-night-brings-digital-and-tabletop-fun-to-chico/

DOGE's good twin: MR. DOGGE, who doesn't hang out with Big Balls but BIGTREK.BAS.

LATE NOTE:  THE EXPERIMENT WITH MERGING TWO OR MORE MODULES HAS BEEN TRIED. I
AM SAD TO REPORT THAT THIS APPROACH APPARENTLY DOES NOT WORK. IT SEEMS THAT
THE EFFECT OF THE 'MERGE' FUNCTION IS TO DESTROY DATA (IN ADDITION TO CERTAIN
LINE NUMBERS). MY THANKS TO MR. E. DOGGE FOR THIS INFO. E.D. ALSO SENT A 'TRIM-
JOB' OF 'BIGTREK' CALLED 'TREKMOD'; IT PLAYS THE SAME GAME, BUT LACKS THE 'SCO-
RING' AND 'VISUAL' FUNCTIONS. NOT TO DEMEAN MR. DOGGE'S EFFORT, I CAN'T PER-
SONALLY SEE HOW THIS PARTICULAR 'STARTREK' CAN BE MEANINGFUL WITHOUT THE SCO-
RING ROUTINE. IF THIS WERE MY 'BABY', I WOULD (IF NECESSARY) REDUCE EVERY BIT
OF (TEXTUAL) CONSOLE OUTPUT TO A 2 DIGIT CODE SO AS TO RETAIN 'SCORING'; THE
'VISUALS' ARE CUTE BUT NON-ESSENTIAL. SEE WHAT YOU THINK. ALSO !!! THERE ARE
(IN THE 'BIGTREK' FILES ONLY) SOME CRUCIAL ERROR TRAPS WHICH I INSERTED. LOOK
FOR THESE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 'NAVIGATE' AND 'IMPULSE' SUBROUTINES. THE
COMMON STARTREK PRACTISE OF INPUTTING A '0' WARP-FACTOR (DISTANCE) TO ABORT
AN IMPROPERLY ENTERED NAVIGATION ROUTINE WILL, WITHOUT THESE TRAPS, GIVE YOU
A 'SUBSCRIPT OUT OF BOUNDS' ERROR, AND THE GAME WILL HAVE BEEN (LITERALLY)
LOST. I SUGGEST COPYING THESE EXACTLY IF YOU WILL BE TRYING THE 'TREKMOD' IM-
PLEMENTATION.

Me: I will simply use this USB drive to transfer a couple of files to my old Mac, this will be much quicker than messing about and setting up some network file sharing stuff.

Mac: *has USB 1.1*

Me:

Learn 6502 Assembly v0.2.0 is available on Flathub soon!

Just one week after initial release, this update brings major improvements:
• Interactive help for beginners
• Better mobile support
• New tools: disassembler & memory viewer
• Save/load functionality
• Improved usability

Perfect for learning vintage computer programming with real-time debugging and a visual game console.

Get it now: https://flathub.org/apps/eu.jumplink.Learn6502

#GNOME #Flathub #6502 #RetroComputing #Linux

I have found that it is really hard to get pixel perfect results when trying to create classic System 6/HyperCard windows using html/css when working with Safari. It is SO OPINIONATED about dithering certain things that are pixel perfect 1-bit pngs and about rounding the corners of form fields.

I switched to using svgs to make a fill for my pinstripe title bars because of the dithering and inserting
-webkit-appearance: none; into CSS to strip out styling of the form fields. #retrocomputing #hypercard

Right, time to test these out. I’ve got modern PSUs for both so I can test the included PSUs separately. #RetroComputing

In case you missed it, there are Mastodon apps for retro computers from the 1980s & 90s

Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii

Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

Commodore 64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

Commodore Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon

MS-DOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON

Palm OS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump

Windows 95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

Thinking Different, Thinking Slowly: LLMs on a PowerPC Mac [The Resistor Network]

http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2025/03/thinking-different-thinking-slowly-llms.html

I've been coping with a lot recently so decided to treat myself to a little something, The Spectrum ​​, a 2024 console based on the original 48K Sinclair ZX Spectrum from 23rd April 1982, rubber keys and all. Like 2018's Spectrum Next this machine updated the firmware to a modern standard of presentation, and include modern ports for power and connectivity (1xUSB-C, 5xUSB-A).

Reader, I'm delighted with it. I've already had a bash at Horace Goes Skiing and it all came flooding back...how bad I was at Horace Goes Skiing.

Not only that but seller included a 16Gb USB that held hundreds of Mb of other speccy games - possibly all of them easily sourced from fan sites and less reputable channels - which you can access and play through the console's main menu. That's a catalogue of over 9000 titles NOT including the eye-openingly fantastic Homebrew games made by fans in the decades since. See you in 2201?

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#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #ZXSpectrum #TheSpectrum #Retro #EverythingOldIsNewAgain #Sinclair #Speccy #YourSpectrum #Crash #YourSinclair #48k #128k

Wait—was I just supposed to not bid when I saw an Apple ImageWriter I at auction? In my defense, it’s not my fault no one else bid higher. Now I’ve got both Apple ImageWriter I and II… and absolutely zero time to play with them.

It''s a lovely sunny Friday evening out there, so of course I've spent it in the kitchen tearing my hair out over what I'd planned to stream tonight...

Which means we'll instead be taking a look at the DEC Rainbow (finally!); join me in an hour (1800 BST) at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett and we'll give it the ol' once-over.

It's *adorable* I cannot even

Also I'm probably going to regret buying a netbook again, my hands are really not built for something this small.

Looks like Xandros is still installed, which is neat but pretty much useless at this point. I may snag a disk image just so I have a backup though.

Pimp My Spectrum by ate bit | 64k intro (FullHD 1080p #DemoScene demo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdkKLlUEAow

Comments one could once find in software:

; BE CAREFULL,  THIS PROGRAM WIPES OUT
; ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY HAVE HAD
; ON THE DISK.  ALSO BE SURE THAT YOU HAVE
;CHANGED C4 FROM 1000PF TO .1MFD PERMENANTLY.

Second live auction box of the day, this time it’s from the other side of the UK 8-bit war, a Sinclair Spectrum, not just any Speccy though a toastrack - the short lived 128k update to the Speccy+ invented in Spain and reimported back to the UK just before Sinclair was sold to Amstrad. I might get a repo box so I can protect this original one #RetroComputing

I spent the entire day yesterday playing with old Linux distros again.

Where I started: Debian Slink running on 86Box.

What I tried: Debian Slink and Potato on QEMU.

What I discovered: QEMU was much faster for CPU tasks (like 10 times as fast), but oddly slow with disk access. I couldn't get sound to work and X would only run at low resolution. VNC worked fine though.

Where I ended up: Debian Potato running on 86Box.

The Jupiter Ace Remembered - It is hard to imagine that it has been more than four decades since two of the ori... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/the-jupiter-ace-remembered/ #retrocomputing #jupiterace #forth