The sysop of DarkForce BBS customized his board today for April Fools' Day. Telnet to darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org:1040 to check it out!

It's an Atari ST BBS, so I recommend using SyncTerm's new VT52 mode for an authentic experience.

Listen at: https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio

This week we will talk about the Unix Philosophy and how it compares and contrasts with whatever one might call the “Emacs Philosophy.”

The impetus for the discussion is a series of blog posts by @ramin_hal9001 called “Emacs fulfills the UNIX Philosophy”:

• The original introductory blog post
• The show notes

…as well as a fascinating discussion that took place over this past week on ActivityPub on the topic of the Unix philosophy and history of Lisp on Unix in which some very knowledgeable people have contributed anecdotes and facts.

#technology #programming #SoftwareEngineering #RetroComputing #lisp #r7rs #SchemeLang #UnixPhilosophy

within each of us
our loved ones, in tiny form,
caring's innate yield
    company at a distance
    legacy in case of loss

Hoy hice mi primer test drive de mi máquina del #desafíoretrocómputo2025 y for un éxito.
Me fui a un bar, me conecté al wifi usando una herramienta con TUI (la conexión andaba pésimo pero por culpa del servicio, no de la máquina), chatee un rato por #IRC con #Pidgin, y terminé el turno de planets.nu sin problemas. Todo muy usable y sin crashes ni ralentización de ningún tipo.

I did it!
Furaffinity running on my dual CPU, 867mhz PowerMac G4, on Safari 5.0.6!

InterwebPPC even properly loaded the images LOL

Tonight at.... Sometime after 8:30 PM Eastern (but definitely before 9:30!), I'll be going live to continue work in my 6502 #emulator written in #Zig!

Come for the emulator, stay to hear my in-depth opinion on why Minecraft is a great game!

https://twitch.tv/b4ux1t3

Edit: forgot to mention, we might multi-task with a little bit of graphical programming in raylib and Zig ;) depends how far we get on the emulator!

Reading the manual of a Forth system that suggests Forth code like

: GREETING
    B[ A$= "WHITE LIGHTNING"]
    B[ PRINT "HELLO, " + A$] ;

Oh my, they must have had some potent hallucinogens in the eighties.

Le retour des annuaires papier :
https://nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Apr/01/phonebook-of-the-internet/

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: Pinball Dreams - Title Theme [Amiga] bY Amiga! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio

New software review on my website!

iCab
★★★☆☆

This macOS-only WebKit browser is just OK, but with so many other browsers trying to grab your attention and data, sometimes 'just OK' is what you want.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/icab/
#software #webBrowser #webkitBased #macos #degoogling #retroComputing #review

I’m live NOW over on Twitch for the Little Tuesday Amiga Stream

Wrapping up converting the original Spelunky tutorial level and looking at the level generation code.

See you over on https://twitch.tv/DidierMalenfant

I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.

I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … ).

Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4

(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place.)

#RetroComputing (somewhat)

If you are into Sentinel definitely check out Augmentinel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ckk... It adds additonal features while emulating the game, accelerated 3D rendering, VR support, 3D sound HRTF effects, and more! #emudev #zxspectrum #retrodev #homebrew #emulation #retrocomputing

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Playing The Sentinel using Aug...

Check out as well this video to see what #Quake1 #speedrunning is about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRlf... #retrogaming #retrocomputing #quake

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ucwjleevh3u7yq4safl6dnsa/post/3llpizghj622t

The Complete Beginner's Guide ...

Hey look! A manual for #SCP!

https://hc-ddr.hucki.net/temp/SCP%203.0%20b.pdf

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: The White Tiger bY Skaven! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio

RetroSwim: Pool's Open - The RetroSwim BBS
telnet://ezycom.retroswim.net:2323

The full 80GB archive of VogonsDrivers, now browsable, searchable*, and downloadable on more systems than ever!
https://bitbang.social/@retroswim/114260519091055456 #bbs #retrocomputing