Merry Christmas to all from the Retro Computer Museum and our wonderful team of volunteers! May your living rooms be full of Speccies, CPCs, C64s and Ataris!

How many machines can you spot in lftkryo's incredible rendition of the Boléro? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGb...

Please note that the Retro Computer Museum is now closed to the public for the rest of the year. We will be back in 2026 on the 3rd of January, still with plenty of work to do 😀

We literally configured this on our DOS BOX this morning. Can confirm - it sounds amazing.

Thank you to everyone who made it to our Xmas 2025 Legendary Event yesterday. Another amazing day was had by all. And of course, you know there'll be another one in the Spring....

A bit of good news.... The awesome library will be open tomorrow 😁 In other news, the weather is really trying to ruin our weekend. But we have contingency plans!

Just two days to go 😀 We'll be getting everything ready tomorrow for the big day on Saturday. See you there?

This video from Tech Tangents shows why we don't Retrobright anything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_W...

I recently discovered that the original soundtrack for Doom was composed using an SC-55 so this is the canonical E1M1

We have finally got the MT-32 and SC-55 setup for the ultimate in DOS gaming.... The setup we all dreamed of having back in the day.

3D Realms was working on this way back in the late 90s. They gave up when they realised the technology of the day could only cope with a voxel count that looked a bit naff.

RCM has entered the chat :)

If only we had the collective time and money to build one of these.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMP... Don't suppose @machonachomedia.bsky.social wants to make a donation? No? OK 😔

The Awesome Word-Famous Legendary Gathering™ is back for Christmas 2025! Tickets available here: retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/events/legen... If you've never been, see the quoted post for what to expect 😀 See you there?

The Retro Computer Museum Leicestershire provide historically focused school trips, where your students have the chance to discover various computer and console systems from the 1960’s onwards. ukschooltrips.co.uk/retro-comput... #historyteacher #Museums @retrocomputermuseum.co.uk

The very first Amiga, the A1000, was released on July 23rd, 1985. Happy 40th birthday to the Commodore Amiga!

RCM will have an MT-32 setup connected to our DOS Box before the year is out. Until then, you can hear what you're (and we're) missing, courtesy of Ema Zamboni: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R14X...

Several of the RCM volunteers feel attacked by this.

Not seeing much interaction on this, so reposting in case it was missed. Tickets are now live for our summer legendary event, which this time includes a special auction. Details on the website 🥳

Modern Vintage Gamer has put together an excellent video on one of our favourite games, Lemmings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FTO... Featuring @mdf200.bsky.social 's original animation sheet that led to the infamous comment, "There's a game in that...."

Some of you may have received multiple confirmation emails for our legendary event. We had a mailer configuration issue on the website which we believe is all sorted out now. Sorry about that 😔

It's back again for the summer! The Retro Computer Museum legendary event on Saturday the 21st June 2025! If you've never been, here's what you can expect: bsky.app/profile/retr... 1/2

We have some old ICL drum memory and paper tape reader components at the museum, and dream of doing something cool with this one day. So this achievement brought to you by Usagi Electric gets our warmest* approval :) * by vacuum tube of course. www.youtube.com/watch?v=no0C...

I actually miss Teletext... It was like the world wide web before we had it. THIS is how we got our news at any time we wanted. It's fabulous you can actually get this working again with new content! This was found set up at @retrocomputermuseum.co.uk

First, It Was Floods, Now The Retro Computer Museum Counts The Cost Of A Break-In. (Repost)

🚨Limited opening today🚨 Due to a break in in the early hours of this morning, the main computer room and the shop are not available today. We are waiting for the police to arrive and hope to open them later today.

Now this is a trio we can get behind. We'd keep the Apple Quadra 660AV, as it's one of the best Old World Macs ever. Gift the TI99/4A - Wonderful and under-appreciated machine. The Amstrad PPC512? Bin it. Especially when the PPC640 is right there.

One of the best shoot-em-ups on the BBC Micro, and a regular occurrence at the Retro Computer Museum.

One of the things that came to light when we were flooded out was the fragility of our outside "Yard" area, which is used for our legendary events and as a chill out/escape area at the weekends. If you would like to donate to our full makeover project: www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/...

We are very excited and pleased to announce that we are hosting a satellite party for the 2025 Revision Demo Party! Doors will open from the end of regular day at 3:30pm until 11:30pm, with discounts for day visitors. See you there! retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/events/revis...

A1200 and C64 living in perfect harmony💕✨ 🎵 fanlink.tv/raster

G-Zero demo for Sega Mega Drive now available! Download www.mediafire.com/file/y6yvxux... #sega #megadrive

h/t @breakintoprogram.co.uk

Amazing day at @retrocomputermuseum.co.uk, back in business just a few weeks after their devastating flood. Hats off to everyone who helped put it back together.

You're missing Simone playing live 🤩

🎉 Back to full capacity! 🎉 We have now finished the rebuilding of the public facing parts of the museum, and everything is now ready for you! Please check www.retrocomputernuseum.co.uk for opening times!

4 player Outrun is go!

We WILL have this ready by tomorrow... we're pulling an all nighter!

Square Enix Staff Discover Cache Of Pristine Retro Games, Some Of Which Date Back 30 Years. (Repost)

Keep the StarChess for ourselves, gift the Intellivision because it's iconic, and delete the GX4000, because honestly - why?

We're looking forward to seeing you on Saturday!

Love to see you there 😍 Great pics btw.

Fans Pay Tribute To Trap Door & Popeye Developer Don Priestley, Following News Of His Passing. (Repost)

🚨Running at limited capacity🚨 Due to flooding on 6/1/2025, we are still in the process of repairing our buildings. Our main building is now back up and running, with the main computer room and (subject to availability) the library. For the time being, the Arcade remains unavailable.

The new carpets are down, and we've moved machines back into the main room. RCM is starting to heal 😊

We soooo want one of these. Or at least access to the EPROM data to build a replica.

Our World Famous Legendary* Gathering™ is back again for 2025! You can purchase your tickets to our favourite event on March 8th here: retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/events/legen... ( * not actually World Famous or Legendary )

The rebuilding of our museum is proceeding with pace. The new carpets are being laid and the walls are being repainted. We should be back in place in a few weeks! Our arcade is nearly checked out too. A couple more systems to run through and we'll be ready to plug everything back in.

Our main building has now been sanitised and we can start the process of rebuilding and reinstalling. In 2 or 3 weeks time we should be back in the main computer room, with just the arcade to get back up and running. Thank you for your patience 😊

Keep the Apricot F10, because we haven't got one. Gift the Amstrad NC100 for the novelty. Reluctantly delete the Acorn Electron. A nice little machine on its own merits, but never lived up to its intended purpose.