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I added sound. It required adding a feature to the sound player to be able to arbitrarily slow the samples playback speed.
I'm not super happy with the samples, but they must be REAL short in order to avoid visibly hanging the game.
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I found this pink Commodore 3032 for sale for 300€ @ https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/ordinateurs/2941940559
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My first connection was using a terminal emulator on my PET computer and a 300 baud modem to dial into my university's mainframe. No "world wide web", just remote menu-driven access to files on several connected computers. I later ran a BBS system on a PET with a 1200 baud modem (blistering speed!)
If Commodore hadn't gone bankrupt in 1994, we might have had an AmigaPhone in our pockets. 
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If Commodore hadn't gone bankrupt in 1994, we might have had an AmigaPhone in our pockets.
The IBM PC really won the personal computer wars because of the awesome power switch (I’ll let you guess which one it is) #retrocomputing
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It was terrific. While my wife was in college and grad school getting her BSW and MSW, I typed all her papers including her theses on it using emacs and LaTeX (with BibTeX for the references and footnotes) and printed them on our 24-pin Epson dot-matrix printer which could do graphics and fonts at 180DPI. Her professors were really impressed at how lovely the Computer Modern fonts looked and the overall appearance vs the typewriter appearance form the other students. 
My daughters also used that combination for their high school papers. When the older one went to college, she was forced to take a class in using computers in which they taught Word and Excel. She caused a bit of a stir when she demanded to know where Emacs and LaTeX were instead of that "garbage" Word.
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I was a leaf node on the UUCP USENET for Net News & email using my AT&T 3B1 (I loved that thing). Called a willing node 4 times a day to receive and send my compressed NNTP & email bundles. Started at 1200 baud but eventually got up to 56K. Also used SLIP to dial into the Merit Network for internet access (mostly FTP sites)
26 years ago tomorrow, Yahoo bought Mark Cuban's dotcom-era startup, broadcast.com, for $4.6 billion. Like many startups, it wasn't making money yet. But the deal made Mark Cuban a billionaire. He sold at just the right time. #RetroComputing #DotComEra https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-mark-cuban-became-rich/
"Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio"
I owned a C64 and C128 back then, but this was not a thing in Germany as far as I can remember (or at least not in my bubble). We were copying programs from magazines by typing in the printed listings.
https://newslttrs.com/yes-in-the-1980s-we-downloaded-games-from-the-radio/
Newslttrs · Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radioSo there I was, minding my own business, doom-scrolling my way through Facebook posts when I happened upon one that hit me straight in the nostalgia. A photo of a 1980s home computer, a cassette player and some tapes. The text underneath proclaimed "In the 1980s, people could download video
C64 High-Score Challenge for April 2025: Up 'n Down (Sega, 1984) https://discord.gg/rH7BcFWBpW
This month there is another #Retro night at #Derby Computer Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCxWbiCrSs
It's on Saturday 19th April, £7-8 all night, get your ticket here: https://www.derbycomputermuseum.co.uk/byob-retro-gaming-nights - hurry - there are only 5 tickets left already!
I had a great time last time I went!
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need some swarm help - I am searching for a Sun document ...
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Tiny Bubbles in the Memory - We are always fascinated by bubble memory. In the late 1970s, this was the “Next B... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/31/tiny-bubbles-in-the-memory/ #retrocomputing #bubblememory #teardown
Hackaday · Tiny Bubbles In The MemoryWe are always fascinated by bubble memory. In the late 1970s, this was the “Next Big Thing” that, as you may have guessed, was, in fact, not the next big thing at all. But there were a …
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𝙱𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝙶𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜
A voxel tribute to retro-games, made in 2013.
See other posts in this thread for more game-themed voxel art.
I finally managed to install a working graphics driver for the TRIDENT 8900D within my new 86Box VM. This is running in a beautiful 800x600 resolution with 256 colors. Classic!
In case you're wondering about this file manager: Yes, it doesn't have toolbars. No, it's not broken. This is normal. You're looking at the good old Windows 3.1, not WfW 3.11! I just love these subtle differences!
My first #PC was a 486 machine with two #floppy drives. A: was the little-used 5¼ DSHD drive, and B: was the 3½ HD drive that saw the vast majority of use.
I only learned decades later that this was the opposite of the usual setup, in which A: is the 3½ drive.
I wonder why the builder went with this arrangement?
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@fesshole Certain Lead poisoning addled #retrocomputing YouTubers probably doing the "sickos: yes" react to this post.
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Commited my first opponent! (https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/ee358e07527b80a9532115fee51bd4c125f9d953)
They're quite a good defender and not much of an attacker.
I have hopes of being able to implement multiple opponents' "personalities" by tweaking a few variables.