Aw man 😞 Rest in peace Mr Cheifet, host of Computer Chronicles: obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei... What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.

Found DOS in Outer Worlds 2! Well, a mish-mosh of DOS, dosbox, mis-typing an SBLASTER variable, ping, CHKDSK, and other stuff. But very cute to see on the display.

Not trying to prove anything, just sharing yet another awesome MT-32 tune: 🔊🎵 #DOSGaming

Been processing the news about Stewart Cheifet all day. Tell me if you heard this before: you were an impressionable young geek parked in front of the tube on a weekend afternoon and caught a show talking about computers, games, and software. I saw Power Macs first on CC. Windows NT. The internet.

Introduction. Since 2014 I've been using Excel to create math art. Post-processing in Krita.

Found a use for AI: Collate results from searches. "Find the year these Central Point products were released: PC Tools Deluxe v4.2, 5.5, 6" "...I've confirmed the existence of 5.5 (1989) and 6 (1990) through multiple sources like WinWorld, Vetusware, and Archive.org..." 4.2: 1988 5: 1989 6: 1990

Here are the DOS game trivia quiz questions I made for an event earlier in the month: youtu.be/z3mGQgVXkp8 They are all pre-Wolfenstein-3D, but most have some sort of visual clue to help out. Let me know your score :-)

Bloop got a donation match! Donations before the end of 2025 will be doubled by an anonymous donor - up to $10,000! See comments. givebutter.com/bloopholiday #tech #museum #museums #technology #retrogaming #retrocomputing #pittsburgh #PGH #education #nonprofit

New video is out! Watch as I re-discover the joys of flex cables and somehow restore a Game Boy DMG in the process. Huge thanks to @thisdoesnotcompute.bsky.social for the guest-appearance, and @mac84.bsky.social for the guest-guest-appearance! youtu.be/9dEZEnxdiOQ?... #retrogaming #restoration

#dosember drawing to a close seems a fitting time to wrap up this MS-DOS gouraud renderer, which I've been wanting to write for ages now. Running on emulated 486. Music from Team Yankee II. Sources up soonish (DJGPP or Watcom C). #retrogames #IndieGameDev

I've released my tool for encoding pixel art on floppy disk tracks. Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens. github.com/dbalsom/flux... #retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk

Available Now, do you need some lovely non-holiday retro YouTube to hide and/or recover from the world with? Would you like it to feel like a real TV channel? With the co-operation of 30+ of the loveliest channels, this is Sub5000 TV. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I was honored to participate in the annual Big Red Arrow Club Christmas Trivia Quiz this year, not only did I participate on a team, but had a lot of fun creating questions for the other team. After the holidays, I'll post my question block at max quality for everyone else to test their DOS skills.

One of my big "they don't make anime like they used to" old fan complaints is that Cool Computer screens are a dying art

this is so brilliant - a writeup of an oldschool demo running on 4096 gates of a tiny tapeout chip www.a1k0n.net/2025/12/19/t...

The cable-TV powered Sega Channel for Genesis/Mega Drive has been preserved and over 140 ROMs recovered. Here's the remarkable story: www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2025/12...

This is an interesting project to port a simple overhead shooter to seemingly every platform under the sun. I booted the 320KB disk image on my real IBM PC/XT + CGA and it fired right up and it played very well, considering the hardware platform. Smart screen updates too (no tearing or flickering).

My digital logic simulation of the IBM CGA now has color! And a release! github.com/dbalsom/cga_... #retrocomputing

Never forget...

Memes are generally fine, but I really hope the "X is now as old as Y was when X was new", etc. ones die out soon. It's the most irritating way to say "Y is twice as old as X", ie. "Today the NES is twice as old as the Sony PSP"

A new challenger approaches! We just got a donation challenge from our friends at @cyan.com, creators of Myst and Riven! If you donate toward our Winter Fundraiser right now, Cyan will DOUBLE your contribution. If you were waiting to donate, now is the time! givebutter.com/vghf-winter-...

Join us tonight at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern for a YouTube Premiere of @frankcifaldi.bsky.social's impassioned, energetic talk about the state of video game preservation. This was previously for GDC attendees only, but has been unlocked for all. We'll be in chat! youtu.be/_00AjQNjgDk?...

Putting together a short dos trivia quiz video for a holiday event with friends. 10 questions from easy to tough. Assuming it goes well, I'll post it to my YouTube channel afterwards. As usual, I'm over-engineering the thing. 😕 Have spent 10+ hours in production thus far.

PC-Man (IBM PC, 1983) and The Spark Of Childhood Wonder cc @dosnostalgic.bsky.social #dos #dosgaming #intel #x86 #retro #retrogaming intotheverticalblank.com/2025/12/02/i...

THIRTY NINE ENTRIES. 😐 Go play 'em! Leave a lovely comment! Follow the devs! Get inspired!

The IBM 5150 motherboard, illustrated. #retrocomputing

The google doodle today for Thanksgiving doesn't lead to a history article, a historical figure, food recipes, or anything heartwarming: It leads directly to AI-generated thanksgiving "suggestions". Google doing this for a holiday meant to celebrate human connections is outrageously tone-deaf.

When I learned the US penny would be discontinued, I asked my father, a world-renowned numismatist, for his reaction. His response was surprisingly practical: Not only did he agree, but thinks we should discontinue the nickel as well, simply because both cost more to mint than their face value.

What does it take for 640k of RAM on a #pcjr with IBM sidecars? Five of them. One for extra power, and 4 128k RAM expansions.

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Choosing to spend my evening disassembling a rare PCjr cartridge ROM (JrVideo, supposedly speeds up PCjr video routines) while consuming pizza and caffeine. Reliving my youth, or retrocomputing like a boss? I choose to view it as the latter.

Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app

Writing my own disk drive cleaning program today because I don't like how other programs do it. (Mine uses a butterfly pattern, and only runs for 20 seconds, because that should be long enough to unjam any gunk from the heads.)

Userlandia show retrospectives are among my most favorite, and this one does not disappoint. Excellent coverage of a show that is getting hard to cover.

I frequently have to change switch settings on my XT-IDE and 5150/5160(XT) motherboards, and I was sick of constantly having to go look up the tables to decode the switches. So here are a couple web-based tools to help out. github.com/misterblack1...

Good old Woz. Good for him.

It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

I needed a tile editor for doing our MS-DOS #gamedev. I decided to make one that could send its data using a #FujiNet attached to my #PCjr, to my dev system. youtu.be/75i190rgcK8 #retrocomputing #retrogaming

What's up seasoned detectives! There's a new Tex Murphy book from Aaron Conners! 'Tex Murphy and the Steakhouse Stakeout: An Interactive Adventure' is a choose your own adventure book with 70 possible outcomes. Get it on Amazon (links in comments). Available as paperback or ebook.

What bothers me the most about ai-generated art is how it reflects the apathy of our current society. Images that are either blatantly wrong or utter nonsense are deemed "ok" for use by a creator -- but then the majority of consumers either don't notice or don't care.

Can't imagine GTA without Vette!, just as I can't imagine anyone could ignore this excellent piece on it: 'Vette!, Silicon Dreams on the Streets of San Francisco'. Read it here ⇢ retro365.blog/2025/04/29/v...

Med Systems published a catalog of four "adventure blobber" games from 1980 to 1982, made outside the regular arc of adventure game history. Recently, I found a fifth game. It is not in any catalog or advertisement. It is a ghost from time that shouldn't exist. bluerenga.blog/2025/11/12/m...

Did you know that from 1991 to 1995, more than 200 demos were featured on national French TV in the show named "Micro Kid's"? Here's an anthology! peertube.fenarinarsa.com/w/24nDZWh5Er... #demoscene

25 years ago, a simple Half-Life mod changed online gaming forever. 💣 Counter-Strike redefined team play, and tactical shooters — and it’s still shaping the scene today. What’s your earliest CS memory? LAN party? 56k modem lag? 📂 https://www.mobygames.com/game/2726/half-life-counter-strike

Interesting assertion in this essay on postjournalism that the switch from an advertiser- to reader-funded model locked the New York Times and other traditional news outlets in ideological filter bubbles that suppress balanced views and amplify extremist ones. andrey4mir.substack.com/p/postjourna...

We preserve games because memory fades faster than media. Every upload keeps history alive. 💾

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

I've officially released my real-mode emulator CPU test suite for the Intel 80386. github.com/singlestepte... #retrocomputing #emulation

One of the advantages of cataloging your software collection is that you can plot distributions like this. Many people are surprised when they see how early my collection skews. Well, I started collecting early, and find+archive stuff that hasn't been archived yet. And that's mostly early titles.

I think folks often forget about the tools #YouTube gives users to maximize their viewing experience. Keyboard shortcuts, speed watching tools, Watch Later... but most users don't know about them. Check out @oldskool.org's new video on how to get the most out of YT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1yH...