Well, I guess this is a thing now:

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A web radio stream with the best of the best of four channel tracker music (and some Rotterdam terror).

Let's call it a 'public beta' for now. Enjoy!

#mod #retrocomputing #chiptune #TrackerMusic #DemoScene #amiga

The Problem That Built an Industry

｢ The infrastructure that booked those flights was designed in 1960. It runs on an operating system that predates Unix. It speaks a command language built for teletypes. It has been running continuously, without a full rewrite, for over six decades — and it handles roughly 10,000 transactions per second at peak ｣

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#system #complexity #retrocomputing

The Problem That Built an Industry

How a conversation on a plane in 1953 set in motion the stack that eventually processes tens of thousands of flight bookings per second, and why that stack is still here.

^{Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe (ajitem.com)}

It's finished! The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic game, is now fully documented at thesentinel.bbcelite.com

* 41,902 lines of lovingly annotated source code

* 51 deep dives (116,240 words)

* Fully buildable code repository

* 100% handcrafted AI-free content

* 7 months’ work

If you have enjoyed this project, you might like my other software archaeology projects at bbcelite.com

* Elite on the 6502

* Aviator on the BBC Micro

* Revs on the BBC Micro

* Lander on the Acorn Archimedes

Time for a new project now… after a bit of a break. See you soon!

#retrocomputing #C64 #BBCMicro

John Bradley, the author of XV died. Who ever had a computer in the 1990s used his picture viewer.

#rip #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

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