Posts by logout@hackers.town
(DIR) Post #A6ZjEPFBBLCGB0kiTQ by logout@hackers.town
2021-04-10T12:19:31Z
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@M0YNG Anything that can run AsteroidOS - second hand = cheap, but good build quality (brands like LG) and you can run Quake on it!
(DIR) Post #A6q5FUuetfFFZLRFQW by logout@hackers.town
2021-05-02T12:13:47Z
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People do stuff in all the modern programming languages 21. century can offer and I limited myself to Z80 assembly (with some Perl/Python/PHP when forced to). There is no hope for me...
(DIR) Post #A6q74Mf1RCpIhLwZcW by logout@hackers.town
2021-05-02T13:01:15Z
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@EdS but is it really retrocomputing if you do it since you was 10 and never really stopped? :)
(DIR) Post #A6q7HCQKoG2yiJC5Eu by logout@hackers.town
2021-05-02T13:03:38Z
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@EdS but is it really retrocomputing if you do it since you were10 and never really stopped? :)(and yes, diskmag, in czech, that probably limits the audience severely, bu it's for the czech disk drive from Didaktik Skalica, which itself is a strong limitation)
(DIR) Post #A9Bf3T19Dw2aRNnqm8 by logout@hackers.town
2021-07-11T13:45:40Z
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Man and his new toy. Colorized.
(DIR) Post #A9uEJ3OyJWuLEStIDA by logout@hackers.town
2021-08-02T06:15:45Z
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@tbn97 I wanted to be an Amiga lad too, but the universe didn't want to!http://vivapowerpc.eu/20210517-0100_How_the_universe_doesnt_want_me_to_be_an_Amiga_user… so I bought an Atari 😀
(DIR) Post #ABHyxQaUvgTfzavHsG by logout@hackers.town
2021-09-12T08:34:50Z
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Flea market find, $9 - the seller used the machine as a stand for some Core-based laptop and was quite surprised, that I want this and not the modern one 😀
(DIR) Post #ACVklYLjXExQVQ6eie by logout@hackers.town
2021-10-19T04:28:01Z
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@adamd why not the -current? 😃
(DIR) Post #ACYLmT6cfv3RdQrrea by logout@hackers.town
2021-10-20T10:32:11Z
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@adamd here is the mini install: https://slackware.nl/slackware/slackware-current-iso/
(DIR) Post #ACYzG9FcxJ16xMDshc by logout@hackers.town
2021-10-20T17:54:32Z
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@adamd it's for install over network, I used it last year on 950MHz Duron, when I did my little experiment with using it for a month as a primary machine.
(DIR) Post #ADJNwcxHCqZtv1Chto by logout@hackers.town
2021-11-12T00:33:17Z
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I drove across the country and back (we are a small country, it was about 220 miles) for this one. It looks very good, has a full original set of install media (in fact several of them), even the original user guide, but it does not boot (yet, hopefully). I will investigate and repair next week.
(DIR) Post #AFbvZYWAeTWqdGtCxU by logout@hackers.town
2022-01-19T21:33:35Z
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@adamd it could be much much much better! https://www.xyte.ch/t700-crowdfunding/
(DIR) Post #AFdFik5HD7mHLsva0u by logout@hackers.town
2022-01-20T12:44:38Z
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Hooray! My IQ-151 can now read SD cards!
(DIR) Post #AFdFilTm1Wy1g9Oeps by logout@hackers.town
2022-01-20T12:49:00Z
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If you don't know the machine: it's one of the 8bit computers built in socialist Czechoslovakia. 8080-based, modular, with horrible keyboard.
(DIR) Post #AFdFimXi4Ni4yeFJbs by logout@hackers.town
2022-01-20T12:51:51Z
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Quite a lot of modules exist: 32 and 64 column video display, graphics addon (512x256 but slow, slow, slow - 3 seconds to fill the screen!), plaintext and graphic BASIC dialects, Pascal, Assembler, serial interface, even punched-tape reader. And two years ago someone finished SD-card interface, which I today successfully built.
(DIR) Post #AFyjA3YHy7e1d70ghU by logout@hackers.town
2022-01-30T21:24:49Z
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I published this on my blog, but as it is in Czech, i will do a short thread here in English: About 18 years ago I got an Intel Celeron 366 for Slot 1 with something else. As I had no use for it, I mostly as a bookmark (for paper books of course!). After all this years I was curious, whether the poor old CPU works, but it had no cooling and buying any on eBay wouldn't be worth it. So I scripted one in OpenSCAD and printed it. Long story short: The Celeron works!
(DIR) Post #AFyjA52oQ7eeG4IZuq by logout@hackers.town
2022-01-30T21:26:44Z
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(DIR) Post #AHQx29t1NkpORCUMiG by logout@hackers.town
2022-03-15T09:54:42Z
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Long retro-computing toot ahead! With pictures!---Some 10-15 years ago I bought on a local flea market something that looked like an FM radio tuner for the RS-232 / COM port. It cost about $0.5, so I took it and soon after forgot about it. Recently I found it again while searching for something completely different and decided to finally make it work and talk. It was harder, than I thought it would be.Typhoon was a brand of German company Anubis International GmbH and was quite known in central Europe around the turn of the century as a manufacturer of speakers, webcams, TV tuners, graphics cards, and other PC peripherals and components. The brand itself still exists, but has changed owners several times and has no connection to its own history.When I googled the Radio Star, I found just one link - to some old eBay auction where someone sold it with cables and a floppy with driver, but that was all. So I googled more for other Typhoon-branded peripherals and from one photo of the packaging got the URL of Typhoon website from 2001 and then went straight to archive.org.Sadly, the website is what websites back then used to be: generated by a CGI script with long, long URL strings full of parameters, and archive.org didn't and mostly still doesn't archive these well. I had to try another approach: I looked at all the archived files and discovered a pattern:- there was huge amount of cryptically named ZIP archives- and there was less huge amount of HTML files (375 exactly) which had the word "drivers in the URL and the same cryptical part as the ZIP archives.Yes! The latter heap contained product pages with a list of driver archives for various systems from the first heap. So I opened one after another, and after about four hours and 161 opened pages I found a product page for my Radio Star. After that it was all easy......the FM tuner works. I just had to use an old Nokia headset as I don't have anything else with a 2.5mm jack capable of reproducing sound. And I had to use an old personal organizer sync cable as an antenna, because that is the only other thing I have with a 2.5mm jack. Why did all this take me so long?TL;DR I bought an FM radio for the COM port a long time ago and finally made it work.
(DIR) Post #APfeyb26xgFJnnsHwm by logout@hackers.town
2022-11-16T14:01:16Z
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Wow, poprvé mě někdo požádal o odstranění svého webu z MWVA! http://1-2-8.net/mwva/
(DIR) Post #ATxDkAuwJaTStcl0xk by logout@hackers.town
2023-03-24T20:52:22Z
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@adamd I can relate to this!