We are reverse-engineering the meaning of the 8087's microcode. For more details, see my latest article: www.righto.com/2026/05/micr...

Still can't keep up with all of this, so I'm attempting a core dump this weekend attending @vcfsw.bsky.social in Texas.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.

Discovering I could instruct a machine in front of me to do something, which it then did, forever changed my life. Asking a remote machine to do something is... fine, but the growth of that industry is collapsing the local PC industry. Storage and RAM are priced out of reach by most people now.

I can't keep up with all of this.

There's been an incredible achievement made that benefits those interested in emulation and computer history. The microcode for the 80386 has been extracted, decoded, and disassembled. oldbytes.space/@gloriouscow... #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #emulation #reverseeengineering

YouTube just reported that watching on connected televisions is now their largest viewership surface (which I predicted years ago). Once I can reliably edit and grade in HDR, I'll probably start making videos again. Patiently waiting for LG to start selling Tandem OLED (RGB Stripe layout) monitors.

If you wanna create an old school website you can still do it. You don't have to use a huge CMS to make a site in 2026. If you tweak a basic page every weekend it'll grow into a cool lair of thoughts. That's all we did in 1997. The web can just be a bunch of weirdo's sharing. We ARE the web, guys

I'm really this old. Taken on one of my street photography roamings at around 15 years old. NYC has changed quite a bit. #streetphotography #timessquare #art #blueskyart #nostalgia #streets #photography #historical bobswansonart.com/home Live link in my bio.

Sad news from the world of Hollywood. Donald Gibb passed away today. #RIP to him.

Not going to lie, I am a sucker for motion video on hardware that was never designed for motion video: youtu.be/4-w5C875O34?...

Some Windows 11 update broke my RealTek USB audio chipset, and I haven't been able to fix it, so I'm restoring my entire boot drive from a months-old full drive image backup in hope that works. Then I'll use AI to snapshot all driver, registry, and hardware info to diagnose when it happens again.

New features for GlyphBlaster's Neko mode. - Cat will sleep after idle for so long - Cat can be 'tossed' by hitting tab - Cat now pounces the cursor at the end of a chase #retrocomputing #glyphblaster

And it’s out! First video shot (well, half of it anyway) in the new studio and the promise of more to come and more often! Enjoy youtu.be/ORz3dcgBAVE

I've written up an explainer blog about my latest CGA card shenanigans, if you have any questions about what #GlyphBlaster is all about. martypc.blogspot.com/2026/05/60fp... #retrocomputing

The making of "REMODED" 486 DOS demo from @revision-party.bsky.social – the article is written on Russian, but with modern technologies you can easily translate it to any language. #demoscene habr.com/ru/articles/...

Apparently ask.com JUST shut down 3 days ago. RIP Jeeves

NetHack 5.0.0 was released today, and MS-DOS is still one of the official platforms: nethack.org/common/index...

In the past I’ve used palette snooping to implement hardware projects that visualize VGA palette updates in MS-DOS games. When you are the video card you don’t even have to snoop the palette!

Omg so cool. Nasa launched a tool where you can see the Artimas II photos in a timeline from when they are taken. So many beautiful shots. 💚 I love space so much! artemistimeline.com#a-crescent-e...

Myself and @h0ffman.bsky.social have put together a technical write-up of Second Nature, the Amiga demoscene production that was released at Revision a few weeks back. Check it out if you're interested in how these things are done. blog.grahambates.com/posts/second...

Spent the last 5 hours trying to restore audio to my desktop which stopped working after I rebooted. Garbage Realtek chipset produces audio over USB bus; device shows up on boot, then disappears ten seconds later. It's a known issue without any concrete fix. On fourth system restore without success.

We're nearly just a week away from the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest which will be held at the Tukwila Community Center on May 2nd and 3rd. Come checkout over 25 exhibits and see what the community is up to. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing vcfpnw.org

Want to transcode crap streams into compliant video at 25x realtime on an RTX 4090 with 90% of the quality of x265? Here you go: ffmpeg -c:v hevc_nvenc -preset p7 -tune uhq -rc vbr -cq 24 -b:v 0 -profile:v main10 -multipass fullres -rc-lookahead 32 -spatial-aq 1 -temporal-aq 1 -b_ref_mode middle

It's 2026 and most camera/editing tutorials still focus on LUTs -- use technical LUTs with creative LUTs, preview with LUTs while shooting, or worse, bake in LUTs while shooting -- when we should be pushing harder for HDR instead. Feel like I'm doomed to deliver Rec.709 for the rest of my life.

INFERNO. 18 TRACKS. 70 MINUTES. 2xLP, CD, DIGITAL. 29 MAY 2026. boardsofcanada.com

@arrowvideo.bsky.social is running a two-for-$60 on some 4k UHD releases. Of the "new transfers from the original negative" I haven't seen, I couldn't decide between Dark City, Conan the Barbarian, and Demolition Man... So I got all three. Very much looking forward to watching on my calibrated OLED.

I had a great conversation with @dosnostalgic.bsky.social about DOS gaming, collecting big box games, and getting JUST ENOUGH EMS configured to play Dark Forces on your parent's Packard Bell 486! youtu.be/6iyzcA8a0To

I was bummed the 74XX YouTube channel hadn't uploaded in a while but today was blessed with this amazing video that starts with finding some Wild Gunman film reels and ends with an amazing recreation of the original game. Probably my favorite low sub channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfq...

Last week my demo group won the 1st place at REVISION with the eponymous PC demo "Razor 1911": A 10 minutes long coded audio-visual journey thru different eras to celebrate 40 years of activity in demoscene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Anb... SPREAD THE CODE LONG LIVE THE SCENE

It's finished! The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic game, is now fully documented. * 41,902 lines of lovingly annotated source code * 51 deep dives (116,240 words) * Buildable repository * 100% handcrafted AI-free content * 7 months’ work thesentinel.bbcelite.com #retrocomputing #C64 #BBCMicro

I just *LOVE* how AI enables theft AT SCALE. LOVE! IT! Surely we are not heading for a dystopian nightmare where no media can be trusted as authentic. Surely not.

Have a pixel art IBM PC Model 5150! License: CC4 #retrocomputing #pixelart

BREAKING NEWS: Wing Commander Armada Cheat Discovered! https://wcne.ws/17318

Have a pixel art Tandy 1000! #retrocomputing #pixelart

What's the worst time to post something gaming history related? A few days before GDC. Well, GDC is over, so I'll try again: Here's what I learned (as an archivist, for archivists) after listening to 150 episodes of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social podcast: trixter.oldskool.org/2026/03/05/s...

Artemis crew reaches the moon, approaches record-breaking distance from Earth reut.rs/4twS4aF

This essay about refusing genAI in journalism is fantastic. Great reporting—and great writing, broadly—is irreducibly human. And not just the final prose, but rather the whole process that leads there—ideation, research, 1st draft, *every* phase of editing + more www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

Half a million people are watching this live from around the world as I type this. It's comforting to know there's still some interest in science and exploration.

Got "bitten" by AI for the 1st time. Used AI to research a product; when I received said product, it was a huge letdown. I'd forgotten my own advice of always cross-referencing AI with other sources. AI was so busy trying to "help" me that it didn't point out when my expectations were unrealistic.

Yo #Pittsburgh! Bloop is streaming @revision-party.bsky.social live this weekend! Drop by and hit the doorbell anytime 9a~6p today, Saturday, or Sunday to discover the #demoscene at the official US watch party! You can even vote on entries - we've got the codes! #PGH #events #easter #PA #tech #art

Wish I could be there. Best of luck to everyone competing. Let's see some old-school platform love!

"My take on things is: Full-time is far less likely, high-paying full-time is probably more competitive than it's ever been," composer Alexander Brandon said in a recent interview with PC Gamer. "I've submitted 50 resumes and gotten one interview in the last year."

As a certified expert in personal projects that are completely orthogonal to most people's interests, "playing with this relic that no one cares about" is my raison d'être

We love celebrating the culture & history of gaming… and our featured book is the Secret History of Mac Gaming by @bitmapbooks.com : www.pixelcrib.com.au/products/the... Written by the award-winning @mossrc.bsky.social, it is a wonderful account of how the Macintosh changed video games 🎮

I really disliked Starfleet Academy. Not because it was "woke", or targeted young adults, or whatever people are currently arguing about. I couldn't get past the 5th episode because of poor, lazy writing that kept contradicting Star Trek canon. It wasn't a *bad* show; just really disappointing.

The immensely talented artist Philip Castle died recently. He created the posters for A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket as well as album artwork for the many great bands. Retro gamers will know him for his work on the original Elite box artwork. RIP.

Can you fly a helicopter across the country? Actually ... yes you can. #helicopter #flying youtu.be/BumrXBt62pk?...