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Horst Burkhardt
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Saving the world with Windows 3.1, one computer at a time.
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foone.bsky.social
It's only too late if you're dead, and you are not dead.
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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nanoraptor.danamania.com
68020 die under raking light.
A macro-ish photo of a 68020 CPU underneath the soldered-on gold cap showing all the bits. There are extremely fine wires leading from the die to the gold-plated conductors around the die, and each of those lead out to the pins at the bottom of the pin grid array package.
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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tsugu5656.bsky.social
わんわん。 #pixelart #ドット絵
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
mc680x0.bsky.social
Happy Spooktoberfest everyone <3
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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xkeeper.net
presented without comment:

★ the floppy disk alignment chart ★
one of those alignment charts. along the top: "portability [purist/neutral/rebel]" along the side: "structure [purist/neutral/rebel]" the squares, left to right, top to bottom: zip disk, nas, hard disk (internal); usb drive, ps5 (bootleg), soldered-in RAM; paper (in a scanner/printer), a road sign saying 'slow traffic ahead', and a tombstone
August 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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dosnostalgic.bsky.social
CHESS.BMP
January 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
mc680x0.bsky.social
Learning about the economics involved in trying to compete with existing social networking sites has actually been really useful in my business units at TAFE. Sadly, I'm not sure how useful my business units will have been...
January 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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ading.dev
I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file.

PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields.

doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf

github.com/ading2210/do...
January 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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ravikanodia.bsky.social
I've been trying to come up with a more descriptive name than "PC-98" to describe the PC-98 aesthetic, but so far "horny dithering" is the best I've come up with
December 13, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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foone.bsky.social
The SimCity2000 advisor saying "I told you not to fuck around, but guess what? now you're finding out."
January 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
mc680x0.bsky.social
So I'm hearing that Bluesky has been where the mass exodus has come to, and that there's computer nerds, and TTRPG designers and creators, and ... well, I mean Skyfield is here...

But in spite of this veritable cornucopia of coprolalia, I'm still bad at using social media.

How do y'all do it?
December 15, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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teanewport.com
Vonnegut, 1996
“I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I’d never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterward I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this woman named Carol out in Woodstock and say, “Are you still doing typing?” Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat back and forth, and I say, “Okay, I’ll send you the pages.” Then I go down the steps and my wife calls, “Where are you going?” “Well,” I say, “I’m going to buy an envelope.” And she says, “You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in the closet.” And I say, “Hush.” So I go to this newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line because there are people buying candy and all that sort of thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter has a jewel between her eyes, and when it’s my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my envelope and seal it up and go to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of Forty-seventh Street and Second Avenue, where I’m secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I address the envelope to Carol in Woodstock. I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post office, and I go home. And I’ve had a hell of a good time. I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.”
November 22, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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pixeltheydm.itch.io
Me: “perhaps I will see you again, perhaps not. We will find out, together, in the fullness of time.”

My housemate: “… okay, bye”
December 11, 2024 at 12:30 AM
mc680x0.bsky.social
I was never good at using microblogging sites, just generally. So why am I looking at setting up an instance, or a lemmy, or a whatever?
November 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM