FlashFloppy running on my OpenFlops board connected to a VFD in an IBM 5150 (with its lid off). Is there anything more beautiful? 😍

This is the next chapter in The Roaming Spectrum series. I won’t spoil it but Todd has made a really lovely video including an insight into his hometown in Ohio. Thank you Todd! youtu.be/gUYPjxa9PIU?...

The start of a big adventure! This lovable little Spectrum has embarked on a trip around the world where it will visit many retro and vintage tech people along the way. Started off by @2600.me who handed it to me, it's visited the @retrocollective.co.uk and is now in the safe hands of YARC Todd.

Really happy that I can finally share this lovely video @morefunmakingit.bsky.social made about my ZX Spectrum. If anyone is interested in being part of the adventure, pop me a DM. :-) youtu.be/yir_SZW4yXI

It puts a smile on my face when we have more options for properly testing this old hardware we all love! Christian has implemented the March-B RAM test on the C64, which blows away the inadequate RAM test in use on all the legacy diagnostic carts. github.com/amigatomte/A...

Brilliant. Pebble dashed by a bloody pigeon. 😂

Well, they have to make themselves useful, right?

ALIENS AND ROBOTS! 😍

My name is Henry and I have a LED problem^w collection.

The soundtrack of your childhood 🕹️ That is all... 😊 #Museum #RetroTech #RetroComputing

This is probably my favourite @morefunmakingit.bsky.social video yet. Go watch!

Ooo! New one! 🆕

Time for the big guns! @adriansdigitalbasement.com

Something special arrived in the post yesterday—an IBM PC 5150, the same type I last owned decades ago. It’s not working yet, but with its off-the-shelf parts, I’m hopeful I can get it running with help from @mogwaay.bsky.social and the amazing folks on the Retro Hardware Discord. ❤️

For just a moment each Friday, our house is immaculate. The brief pause between the cleaner’s departure and our three-year-old’s happy, stomping return. Then comes the brilliant chaos, the small hands leaving a trail of destruction and laughter and fun. And I wouldn’t trade a second of it.❤️

Happy V-Day to my wonderful rugby-playing, crossbow-wielding, smiley, fabulous wife. ❤️

Latest video! Today, or this week, I'm hawking my wares on eBay. Who wants to buy a stunningly gorgeous ZX Spectrum I've lovingly restored back to better than new condition? You don't? Fair! Actually cant imagine anyone in the hobby doesn't already have one :D But will be fun watching the auction.

I’ve been spending time over the past few weeks looking into the problems with the lovely Ferranti PC-33. By all accounts, it’s a very rare beast! It’s 8086-based, which in itself is pretty cool. 1/4

Twenty thousand electric miles. That’s a thousand gallons of petrol that haven’t been burned. Feeling pretty chuffed with that.

Slightly triggered by this tape on the floor at the pool for son’s swimming lessons. Who would do this? 😂

Lovely lovely lovely STAX records collection picked up from Marketplace. 😍

The Wildhearts popped up on my playlist earlier and I was instantly transported to sweaty gigs at the Cambridge Junction, Esquires etc. what happy memories. What music instantly sends you to a time or place? 🥰

Just remembered the reg number of one of my first cars and looked it up. No history at all. I wonder how long it was used after I sold it? How can I find out for my lovely old car?

Q: What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? A: Donald Trump

youtu.be/QBCj-ejRdz4 Kung Fu Flash 2 — can it run Sonic?

It's the Amiga tower of power! I can't wait to show you all the rest of the disaster inside this A600

Over a decade ago, some radio colleagues created a Twitter account posing as disgraced pop star Gary Glitter. It stirred up plenty of controversy in the UK press. Looking back now, it’s alarming that the Daily Mail and other mainstream media outlets are even worse at verifying basic facts.

A new 286 class machine arrived this week. The Mitsubishi MP 286. It’s filthy and fascinating in equal quantities. As I get time I will add to this thread with what makes it interesting. First on the agenda is a really really good clean!

This is a 1978 Atari CTF-1 test rig. This awesome looking piece of hardware was used to test Atari games to see if they worked. Looks like something out of a spaceship!

Today I gave my N64 a new lease on life. These cases are from Ali Express and I have been really impressed with the quality of the plastics and moulding. Very close to the original OEM case. I swapped the standard red LED for a more appropriate green one. Super happy with how it turned out.

Right! That’s it. Who changed the name of the door bell?

Sometimes when you’ve had an awful day, putting my little lad to bed and him looking up and saying “night night Daddy, I love you!” Just makes everything a little better.

Well that’s today’s ear worm, dammit! 😂

vim, nano….. or emacs? 😱

Looks like the Speccy's killer app for 2025 just dropped... oldsnapper39.itch.io/paint-drying...

RIP Sam Moore. What a voice. What a duo. What a show. (Stax tour, 1966). Some of the best soul music ever made, by anyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fowl...

“I’m going to a Town that has already burnt down!” My heart is aching for my beautiful Los Angeles which is on fire and burning down right now. Jorn, Siegfried, Viva and I are fine. We are actually all not in LA. Our house in Laurel Canyon was under evacuation order from the Hollywood Fire.

Today I fixed a BBC Micro! Or, at least got it booting. youtube.com/shorts/oTEat... 😍

I built a fluorescent green breadbin, which I am selling to raise funds for the Retro Computer Museum, Leicester. 100% of the proceeds will go towards their clean-up effort. I would be grateful for any shares, even if they're just to say "Eew." 😀

Initial benchmarks might have been a bit of a bust. Lots of similar results - maybe a bus or CPU bottleneck? I’ll diversify the cards tested and look for patterns. Stay tuned! 😁 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

You can find me here a lot of the time. Come and join. It’s a lovely friendly and safe space where lots of nerds like me share their projects and tinkering. Everyone welcome! 😍

Vintage GPU benchmarking rig almost ready! Windows 95 lives, online via a 3Com 100M NIC. 🚀 Imaged the CF card now already—can’t risk losing this following a good amount of ‘95 driver faff. Specs: 486DX2 66, 256k cache, 32MB FP DRAM. I regret binning a lidless case last week — perfect for this! 😂

Very happy to have hopefully picked up my holy grail today - the 486 DX/4 120. This was dream spec in my yoof! 😍

Today I have been playing around with Oscilloscope music as recently demonstrated by @techmoan.bsky.social on YouTube. Lots of fun!

Happy New Year! Most of you probably know I’m a bit of a @timminchin.bsky.social fan and something he said recently resonated with me: "Being kind to people you agree with is the easiest thing in the world. The only thing that matters is you can be kind to a bigot." Truer words never spoken. ❤️

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all have the best poo to start things off well.

Yes! 🙌

The Toshiba Tecra 500CDT is all working. This is a lovely colour Pentium 120 from 1996 with built-in sound, CDROM and all the other age-appropriate stuff. Teenage me would have loved this little beauty! 😍