Hello everyone! Your favorite fedibirdy is back over here on thesocial.zone!

My main area of interest is gaming- particularly #retrogaming. I adore the #msdos era up through the early 00s. Games like DooM, Duke3D, Quake, EverQuest, and Starsiege Tribes.

#Retrocomputing and #retrotech bring me so much joy. As I've aged I find myself stereotypically looking back to my childhood and missing it immensely. I was quite the nerd falling in love with computers the moment I could connect to local BBS on my mom's work PC. I put that i386 9600baud Hayes machine through its paces.

#Horror is another love of mine. Every week I watch at least one horror film, and I never grow tired of them. It's the only film genre I continuously am excited for.

And, of course, #birds! These precious animals mean the world to me. They bring me peace and happiness just simply watching them from my living room window. Ever since a pair of sparrows nested in my garage many years ago have I been enamored with them.

#introduction

I love the 8-bit and 16-bit compositions and arrangements of Tim Follin.

This is a 3-channel Commodore 64 SID chiptune for the Black Lamp game.

Be sure to wait for the solo starting at around 42 seconds into the track. 👍👍

#commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #chiptune #music #synth #ElectronicMusic #retro #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #audio #VintageComputing #1980s

New video! In the second part of the series, I'm trying to resurrect the Apple Macintosh Performa 630 Power Supply I found to have lots of leaky capacitors in the previous episode.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/95m79bzZ69A
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/7KstbRzmvGwEa8UfeuoMMA

#Apple #Macintosh #Performa #Performa630 #DOSCompatible #Restoration #PowerSupply #Recapping #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Looks like #Microsoft, in collaboration with #IBM has open-sourced #MSDOS4 under a #MIT license. I wonder how this will benefit the #FreeDOS project, unless some of that has already been integrated into FreeDOS. This could also be a boon for #RetroComputing enthusiasts. ​​ #DOS #MSDOS #IBM

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4

Open Sourcing DOS 4

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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

「 Early in his time at Stanford, Clark worked on a project with Xerox PARC with support from ARPA to develop three dimensional graphics. This led to the creation of the Geometry Engine. In “The Geometry Engine: A VLSI Geometry System for Graphics,” Clark also makes specific reference to Marc Hannah and Lynn Conway as being valuable contributors to the effort 」

https://web.archive.org/web/20240406001321/https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics

#SGI #ComputingHistory #Retrocomputing

The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

or How a Rebellious Youth Briefly Conquered the World

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