#RaspberryPi Trouble! Final video of the year comes courtesy of Channel Two youtu.be/9DnTa28GJr4

Wishing you all a #MerryChristmas and #HappyNewYear2026! If you missed the Xmas Eve live stream, you'd missed the announcement about our new quarterly Newsletter 'The Minimal Byte' now available see: theminimalbyte.co.uk for more! Enjoy!

Wishing you all a #MerryChristmas and #HappyNewYear2026! If you missed the Xmas Eve live stream, you'd missed the announcement about our new quarterly Newsletter 'The Minimal Byte' now available see: theminimalbyte.co.uk for more! Enjoy!

Youtube.com/wifisheep will be #live Xmas Eve from 22:30 GMT until gone midnight #Christmas Day its self.. And during that time I have an #announcement to share! So I hope you can join me tomorrow :-)

#ad A huge thank you to ChenZeppcb from NextPCB for all the help & support with my latest custom #PCB #8bit computing project! PCBs arrived direct from #China in under 5 days! Also love the box they shipped in! www.nextpcb.com?code=WiFiShe...

Final call for this weekends #RetroFest 2025 ⁨@TheCentreforComputingHistory⁩ #Cambridge, England - Saturday now fully booked - Limited tickets still available for Sunday - See you there (Weather permitting!) youtu.be/3PtXixWRiyM

Just ordered an #Arduino #UNOQ as they have just become available... Whats all the fuss about? Video from the announcement the other day youtu.be/swLWejG4QSY

Who will be joining us @ Centre for #Computing History #Cambridge next month for the #retrogaming edition of the #retrofest 25? 16th / 16th November 25 Tickets: www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74558/Re...

Our #Acorn #RISCPC #RaspberryPi #retro refit rebuild series continues.. with part 4, this time working out how original peripherals are going to work in a modern #USB world??? youtu.be/pY1atxNNmBk

New and very interesting #Arduino announced today (October 7th 2025) ... Ive got some #BreakingNEWS thoughts on it. #Arduino #UNOQ youtu.be/swLWejG4QSY

Managed to finally get hold of a personal unicorn machine! Been after one for a very long time! This is my Indata DAI. An incredibly rare beast from 1980. A monster spec that was reflected in the cost at the time. Lovely. ZX80 for scale 😁 (didn't have a banana)

It's just two months to go to the Retro Computer Computer Festival! Expect to see micros and consoles from the 70s, 80s and 90s running the very best of vintage and modern games. Tickets are selling fast, so grab yours here - www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74558/re...

New video now live! I visited the recent #Telford #hamradio #Hamfest in #Shropshire, hosted by tdars.org.uk/ & had to try very hard not to buy things! youtu.be/S7Kx6B8Gil0

A fix or rather an upgrade to USB-C power for the #TheC64... I've been struggling with reliability unit due to the flakey Micro USB socket. This mod which fits a USB-C power port to a 'The #C64' fixing the power issues and allowing the use of #RaspberryPi 4/5 PSU. youtu.be/z-SATV5Ni6I #Commodore

🟥 REWIND | Feature | Suspension of daytime BBC Two transmitter shutdown due to Channel 4 launch. rewind.thetvroom.com/50479/featur...

Genius. The Atari 2600 was of course famous for having a fantastic version of Pac-Man.

#Acorn #RISCPC total rebuild / upgrade part 3 is now live youtu.be/R7Njn77ix0o

Retro jumble sale at bletchley tomorrow www.tnmoc.org/events/2025/...

Well it worked today.... probably wont work tomorrow once in #miltonkeynes! Looking forward to attending @tnmoc for the #Acorn #Econet #LAN party event! www.tnmoc.org/events/econe... #RISC_OS #DOSBOX #Glider

A huge thank you to Andy Marks of @RISCOSbits for kindly donating a custom #RISC_OS 5 ROM image allowing my #Acorn RISCPC to use #NVMe SSD natively - meaning the machine now runs entirely solid state. This build should be at @tnmoc next month & @computermuseum in November! youtu.be/cC5V9fj-QKk

Due to family circumstances (nothing serious :-) Im away this weekend so they wont be a live 'Eight till Late' stream tonight. Sorry about that..... Should be back next Saturday from 20:00 BST (19:00 GMT)

Also been doing some #SSTV #Shortwave #DX ing ... for the very first time, using a low end receiver & #Raspberrypi 400 to decode the signals... basically over the air amateur #HAMradio tv stations. All on the 20meter band around 14320KHz

A very productive #Easter! ... With thanks to Brain Martin of Night Owl #BBS my #8bit #BBCMicro went online over the weekend with some classic BBSing from Night Owl & #Telstar

Whats this? Could I be playing with a #RISC_OS build again? ... Maybe? ... This runs #ARM native & without need for slow SD card! Interesting few days recording new content coming soon!

After needing a week off last week due to having a cold (im better now). I'm pleased to say Eight til Late is back live tonight (Saturday 5th April 2025) from 20:00 GMT+1. Please be aware we're now in British Summer Time, hence an hour earlier start time 19:00 GMT youtube.com/live/JOEBiYz...

Sorry No 'Eight till Late' livestream tonight... I have a really bad cold 🤒

We're #MARCHintosh ing .... looking at the super cool #raspberrypi #PICO kit for building your very own #Mac 128k! Take a look >>> youtu.be/shiaH7Xyp9Q

#Ad A new #unboxing #review video now live! We've looking at the lasted & very good value #KICKPI R2B #SBC #Raspberrypi alternative! #Linux #android / #Ubuntu 2GB RAM 8GB EMMC flash storage, AmazonUK stock! Take a look: youtu.be/sEri5KbLGMQ

Engineer's log, 4th #MARCHintosh 2025. The absolutely very first working Macintosh was assembled on a protoboard using wire-wrap. Andy Herzfeld still has this on a shelf at home.

I run a YouTube channel ... yet it can still be hard to watch yourself back in other peoples videos! youtu.be/koSXzL_lRsQ?... This is my interview from last years (2024) Centre for Computing History's Cambridge Retro Computing Festival. This being part 2 has just been released.

🟥 REWIND | On This Day, 1991 | Having moved away from mechanical models in 1985, it may come as a surprise to some that the BBC One globe from the 1990s was actually a mechanical model. rewind.thetvroom.com/43113/featur...

You: "ya know, you can just buy a resistor network" Me: "NO YOU CANT MAKE ME"

We're NOT live tonight! Eight till Late back next week Saturday 22nd Feb 2025 from 20:00 GMT

The image shows Claris CAD, a computer-aided design software created by Claris Corporation in 1989, used for engineering and design tasks. Follow us on X too - @RetroNet42! #retrocomputing #retrosoftware

Playing REVS in 2025 on #8bit #bbcmicro & #c64 New video now live on two.wifisheep.co.uk youtu.be/V5wrIb7Y-nQ

Playing REVS in 2025 on #8bit #bbcmicro & #c64 Same game, same corner at #Silverstone Interesting how the BBC version is slightly higher res due to the multi scan screen mode switching being used as apposed the C64 single screen res.

A reminder there is NO 'Eight till Late' tonight (Feb 1st 2025). We will be back next week: (Feb 8th 2025) from 20:00 GMT.

Do you remember the horror show that was the #Acorn #ARM RISCPC that was donated to the channel two years ago? youtu.be/Qq6G44GF1I4 Well.. the remains, which basically now consist of the just case have recently been extracted from the shed.... Plans are afoot for 2025!

First use of #floppydisc in 2025! A #BBCMicro Master 128 now up and running on the lasted Eight till Late live stream youtube.com/live/vFa_T62... & I ran #GEM Desktop on the #beeb * bricked the OS in less then an hour Doh! #Acorn #DOS #x86 #8bit #16bit

Day 25 - #retrorandom - I built a thing! Still one of my proudest moments - frustrated with mono composite output on my Fuijitsu FM7, I build my first ever circuit, based on a schematic I'd found in a forum ... 1/3

Looking at #Acorn #RISCOS / #RaspberryPi stuff again ... as you do!

Presenting the Apple IIc, Sith edition!

As quaint and as antiquated as it seems from a perspective of 40+ years I have to applaud the programme (and particularly McNaught-Davis) for covering a decent range of topics and actually asking decent questions.

Was able to listen to the full 'Jazz AM' programme on Channel292 #Germany on #3955KHz #shortwave this evening over the air here in #Shropshire #England without cheating and using online SDR services! More info here: www.channel292.de/schedule-395...

Have you ever wanted to detach your keyboard from your Apple II?... One interesting "add-on" I acquired was a D-TACH Keyboard Kit from Innovative Micro Goodies. Remove your original keyboard, put it in the D-TACH case, connect it and put in filler plate. Handy but with short cord, why bother?

Just read @siliconundergro.bsky.social great summary here dfarq.homeip.net/the-first-mi... on Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC for the MITS 8800 computer. It was announced 50 years ago today Jan 2, 1975. Here are my copies of a slightly later version both on 8" floppy & black paper tape.

Happy 25th Anniversary to those who remember...

The BASIC that never was... An early Macintosh 128K I acquired had what looked like Apple internal diskettes. One of the disks had an early version of MS BASIC for Macintosh along with Macintosh BASIC. Microsoft pretty much bought and killed Macintosh BASIC pre-release but this disk still exists.