There is so much in this image that depresses.

If you've ever played Cannon Fodder, you'll be familiar with the "recruits" screen where new recruits come over the hill and get accepted. Did you know the music that plays there is a love song? It's called "Narcissus" and was written by Jon Hare in 1984. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMqO...

A couple of fun facts here. Sonic 2 came out on the Sega Master System slightly before it come out on the Genesis/MegaDrive. The Game Gear out almost immediately after, still beating the 16-bit version by a week. 1/2

We're just saying... that June 20th feels very retro this year.

To borrow a line from Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams .... A NEW PLEASURE! (we'll get this on our BBC Micro soon)

CHUCKULUS - for the Acorn Electron Version 1.0 now available ! 🥳 github.com/Snuggsy187/C... Download and play on an Emulator or real hardware ! ....or play online in Electroniq - an emulator by @0xc0de.bsky.social

Another legendary event has been and gone. We hope you all had a wonderful day. 😊 We are of course still open on most weekend days from 10am to 3:30pm. Please check our website www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk to confirm and to book in advance. DMs open for enquiries.

At last! All four Outrun cabs have fully functioning sound! We've replaced no less than 3 amplifiers in 24 hours. Just in time for our legendary event 😁

We may have the only analogue CRT television still receiving four channels 😅 Each channel has Teletext of course... BBC 1 ➡️ Ceefax East Midlands BBC 2 ➡️ Ceefax World Service Central ➡️ Spark C4 ➡️ Chunkytext

Have you got your tickets yet? It's gonna be a good one 😊

This is a heinous (though justified) attack on our volunteers and visitors.

You have our attention. We have a couple of BBS-contacting capable machines that we'd like to get talking. We're considering using some serial-to-TCP/IP adapters (WiFi) for the task.

EVERYBODY wants to shoot the dog though. That snarky laugh when you miss ...

Doing a little exhibition refreshing. We've put the Videopac G7000 away for a while, and brought back an old favourite, the Sharp MZ-80K:

Guess what's back for the new year? AWESOME WORLD FAMOUS* LEGENDARY** GATHERING SPRING 2026! retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/events/legen... * May not actually be world famous ** May not actually be legendary 1/2

Now if you can get it to run on the PET ....

Very nice 😊 We don't have much need to have SPARC stuff on display, but there is a lot of love. In storage we have a SPARCServer 1000E 4-motherboard beast. We'd love to get it doing something useful one day.

You asked for it many times, it's finally here. You can now switch TV channels between BBC1 and Channel 4, the latter of which will now let you play Bamboozle!

A nice little addition is coming to RCM this weekend. We'll keep it quiet for now, to keep you BAMBOOZLEd. Watch this [ASCII 0x20] !

Wait.... SEGA PlayStation!? Lady Arcade explains how after Nintendo sent Sony packing, they offered the PlayStation to SEGA.... who then made the same mistake. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4A...

Just saying, we still don't have an Apple Lisa 😭 We'd take a barn find that refuses to boot any day!

We can't wait to see this finished. Our visitors would love to play this.

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Does anyone have the ability to comment on this video or otherwise contact Perifractic? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgpW... At 21:20 he incorrectly states that our Astro Wars cabinet "runs MAME". This is not true. 1/3

Absolutely amazing game. Some at the time might have said it couldn't be done. Geoff Crammond said "hold my beer" (or something similar). Now if someone could write a version for our virtuality machines....

Oh come on - there's always room for Wogan in the chip tunes, surely?

Got a couple of Macs that would run better with these. What we lack of course, is display space 😔

Now that we're well and truly into 2026, we are resuming our Saturday & Sunday opening schedule. Please check our website at www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk to confirm opening days and to book in advance. We are also available for private bookings. DMs open for enquiries.

This is a resolution we can support. Happy New Year from the Volunteer Team at RCM 🥰 bsky.app/profile/chan...

This video by @machonachomedia.bsky.social gives us hope for our Virtual Boys. We have two, and neither is in a working state. 😔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLs8...

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...."