Made a guest appearance on the latest RetroCombs video! We had some fun playing with LoRa.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN4E...
@slofunk.bsky.social
Hackshack.us make.break.hack.tinker.learn.share https://www.extra-life.org/participants/JamiesHackShack I like to tinker with stuff. Some old stuff, some new stuff. Fixing broken things, sometimes breaking things.
Made a guest appearance on the latest RetroCombs video! We had some fun playing with LoRa.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN4E...
Snowy Saturday = @hackerboxes.bsky.social catch up!
31.01.2026 16:18 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0In concert with the PicoIDE campaign launching at Crowd Supply, I have released the PicoIDE documentation so you can preview how you can use the device in detail: PicoIDE docs are live: picoide.com/docs/
29.01.2026 21:12 โ ๐ 45 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Woot! Back this awesome project!
29.01.2026 21:11 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@polpo.org joins us this week to talk optical media fragility, "cursed IDE controllers," & more, as ATAPI CD-ROM / IDE fixed hard drive replacement PicoIDE is ready for production.
The campaign launches today, see picoide.com for details, and watch this Saturday on This Week in Retro episode 253!
Oof. Thanks Amazon!
23.01.2026 20:14 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh my that's a really nice setup!
21.01.2026 04:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ฏ alf rocks. Doing well here. Hope you are too man! Thx!
21.01.2026 03:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I hear ya. It's like we moved on and it had been a while since I truly looked back. We take a bunch for granted now for sure. Hey if that Acer works let it rock and roll!
21.01.2026 03:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A screen showing Windows 98 running the Nero CD/DVD speed benchmark. Average read speed is 74.30x
A screen showing the Speedsys benchmark, showing 15626 KB/s linear read speed
Finishing things up for #PicoIDE and it just about saturates the IDE bus in MWDMA mode 2. Iโm pretty happy with this! It tests as fast as a 74x CD-rom drive which means thereโs a bit more headroom in that mode but that could be the CPU on this K6-2 system being a bottleneck.
21.01.2026 02:26 โ ๐ 85 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1It's freezing cold out... So let's drive 4+ hours away to geek out with retro computers! โ๏ธ
youtu.be/ORbsZHp8X6U
I wanted to build one DOS PC.
I ended up with a pile of 486-era parts, a lesson in 5V vs 3.3V CPUs, and a reminder of how fast everything changed in the 90s.
This oneโs less about specsโฆ and more about the feeling.
youtu.be/MWojqpaeGgU
I did a complete playthrough (casual mode) of the new game for the Apple II - FROGGO! youtu.be/YNG3ciEM9cc
18.01.2026 02:54 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ congrats!
18.01.2026 23:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Dude, why'd you make your music sets have cover art of fake Atari Cartridges?
(looks them over)
Carry on.
archive.org/details/@r_s...
feast your optical orbs on this beautiful LN3-2A aircraft gimbal!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak5S...
.@actionretro.bsky.social gets his Mac Plus online with a BlueSCSI Wi-Fi www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlT8...
17.01.2026 17:30 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you thought these were expensive now, wait until we're at war with Denmark.
14.01.2026 22:19 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It was great chatting with @aricwilmunder.bsky.social about what it takes to build a game engine! #maniacmansion #lucasarts #scumm
youtu.be/628d6-pTRzI
Oh. Oh no. Steve, no.
(I encouraged him, so I'm just as guilty ๐)
Great work by @jcs.org for a HUGE improvement to #BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Speed- will be in the next release but did a quick pre-release build with his branch if you want to try it out today! github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...
13.01.2026 21:55 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Caught an episode of swindled that covered this Michigan story from the 70s. Horrible. :-(
sph.umich.edu/news/2023pos...
๐ฏ dude!
13.01.2026 03:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cute new Frogger clone for the Apple II
www.lasermego.com/a2sw/froggo
The Chronicles of Cheifet
blog.archive.org/2026/01/11/t...