Charlie Balogh

I said it before, and I'll say it again: These cheap mid-90s, late 486 systems are like cockroaches - disgusting, but will survive just about anything, including a nuclear apocalypse.

This one was first used as some desktop machine in a library. When that life ended, it ran 12 years 24/7 as my first Linux server, until the HDD died. Then the next 15 years it rot in corners of various basements. Almost got thrown away several times.

And it lives. 1995 World Domination. 😅

#retrocomputing #msdos

Differences game!

There are a few differences between these two CDTV controllers. Collect them all!

#amiga #cdtv #retrocomputing

More fun with C264 series - I also got these three "modern" Plus/4 game cartridges a friend bought at some retro meeting to try out. They all work fine, unsurprisingly.

These don't work in a C16, they need more RAM. So out comes my 64K-expanded C116! 😁

The Elite port by Pigmysoft is a true classic, the Stunt Car Racer port is a modern masterpiece. Mad Pod Race I did not know from before -it seems to be a Plus/4 original? Anyway, It was fun to try it out.

#plus4 #retrocomputing #8bit

Some 264 series fun - I got this C16 from a local Commodore 64 user who had it laying around for a long time, but never did anything with it, and he wanted it to go to a better home.

It was known to be "gets to the BASIC screen" working, but it also passes Diag264 with flying colors. Nice.

I will remove the peeling "helper" labels put on it by the original owner, but I will put them in a plastic bag, them and keep them with the machine. They belong to its history.

#c16 #retrocomputing #8bit

"This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!"

Today at the @berlincreators@kanoa.de Retro/Amiga meeting, we spontaneously managed to pull off the first ever Mirari PowerPC User's Meetup! ... At least in Berlin. But maybe globally? 😅

#mirari #powerpc #morphos #amiga

Two major, well respected, and very active maintainers in a FOSS project I regularly contribute to are pushing hard for AI contributions and even to replace large parts of existing code base with AI generated code.

Seems, I'll need to find another hobby soon. And at this point I don't mean another piece of software, I mean probably something else than programming and FOSS maintenance.

#sigh #opensource #genai