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Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
Happy 41st birthday, Mario!
Super Mario Bros was released on September 13, 1985.
It's still the first game I associate with the NES, nothing comes even close.
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
The last version of VLC runs on windows XP to 11, macOS 10.07 to 27, iOS9 to 27, Android 4.1 to the latest.
Runs on ChromeBooks, Apple TV, Android TV, VegaOs FireTV, Windows on ARM, Pentium III and so on…
With PowerVLC it runs on G3 with MacOS X 10.2!
Optimize more, keep your hardware longer!
With love.
Your old computer is not dead. It just needs VLC!!!
Running the current VLC version on a iMac G3 (1998) and on a Pentium III on Windows XP (1999).
Live on our booth at @IBCShow, with JBK, you can see and test them. Yes, both machines still work & yes, the latest VLC still runs on them!
No, they are not ready for the e-waste pile....
Because software compatibility is also an environmental feature, and because people don't optimize the software
VLC remembers. It has always had a soft spot for old formats, old machines and technologies everybody else declared dead.
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
When I created Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi, I was excited to help bring low-cost compute into the hands of a next generation of tinkerers and programmers.
However, I now despair that a Raspberry Pi can cost upwards of $300 because AI shortages are making personal computing unaffordable. Furthermore, bright young people are being discouraged from learning programming because they are being told it is now a commodity skill that AI will do.
I have to ask myself what it was all for. Is this the future we were promised? If so, I'm starting to regret my part in it.
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
Doomscrolling, late 80s.
Heading over to your friend's house, gaming all day/night long, and definitely checking ALL their games to see which one to borrow. I know you did it :)
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
El 3 de octubre daré en la UOC de Barcelona una charla junto a Toshinari Oka, extrabajador de Konami y programador del Metal Gear 2, sobre lo que he encontrado desensamblando el juego. No te la pierdas si quieres conocer de primera mano todos los secretos del juego. #MSX
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
I connected a 3.5'' floppy drive to my @Tesla, and it works.
It's nice that the Linux kernel still supports this subsystem. The system script mounts any detected disk drive (with some exceptions) as external storage for Sentry/Dashcam/media source.
It's even possible to play a single MP3 file from the diskette.
Unfortunately, formatting the diskette to exFAT fails, and it can't be used with Sentry. It's a shame.
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
Lode Runner, released in 1983 by Broderbund and designed by 21-year-old University of Washington student Douglas E. Smith, became a mega-seller.
It was the top U.S. computer game of 1983 and Broderbund's second-best-selling title for the C64, following Choplifter. By 1984, it had sold over 300,000 copies and reached 2.5 million worldwide by the end of the decade, with its C64 port developed by Dane Bigham. This game is an easy 10/10 for me.
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
MacGyver and his Commodore 64 - S1, E15, "The Enemy Within" (1986). The coolest dude with a mullet in the '80s just got even cooler when I saw him use his C64. I jumped up and told my parents to come here, MacGyver has a Commodore 64 too!
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
A little history trip from Monochrome to CGA to EGA to VGA. Woud be curious as to what your first PC graphic experience was, mine was EGA. I just missed CGA by one year, so I dodged a bullet there.
The first graphics adapter to bring at least a little life to their screens was the Colour Graphics Adapter (CGA), which is considered the first graphics card from IBM which would set the standard in 1981. This was a step up up from the MDA (Monochrome Display Adapter), which was green text against black.
CGA had a whopping 16kb of memory and connectors for a monitor or a television. It also had a max resolution of 640×200. It wasn’t pretty compared to the competition (8 bit home computer systems), but it got the job done. In 320×200 mode, only 4 colours could be displayed at once. In 640×200 mode, that went down to only 2 colours.
Next up after CGA was EGA in 1984. This time, it could display 16 colours at the same time from a total palette of 64 and cranked the maximum resolution up to 640×350. It was also packed with 64kb of memory (a big leap back then!).
EGA didn’t live long, either, and was quickly put out to pasture by IBM itself with the arrival of VGA in 1987 with an whopping 256 colours. VGA came to represent a number of key developments such as the famous 640×480 resolution or the 15 pin VGA monitor connector... high tech back in the day!
The VGA standard would go on to have a number of other enhancements such as “Super” VGA. SVGA topped off VGA with a number of additional enhancements such as a 800×600 4-bit pixel resolution which extended on out to 1024×768 8-bit pixels later.
And the best part of this? Any gamer born after 1990 will have no clue what I just talked about...
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
Vim was released 33 years ago. To celebrate, try this: open Vim and type :smile to see an Easter egg. Happy birthday to the best programmers text editor out there!!!
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
What if I told you there was an 8086 hypervisor written in the 1980's for the 80386 that ran MS-DOS in a Window - Windows/386!
ALT Okay, it's probably more of a machine monitor using v86 mode, but still it's virtual machines! behold! https://archive.org/details/win386-btech
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
Complete! The ZSNES creator interview runs > 90 minutes & is full of some very interesting conversation, including how to pronounce ZSNES, the idea behind the snow, the lead programmer's favorite video games of all time, and so much more! Wednesday, 10.22.25, 8:00PM Eastern. 👇
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
A little know fact is, the Tanner family (TV series ALF) owned a Commodore Amiga 500. Later on they upgraded it to an Amiga 2000. I wonder what online shopping service Willy was using?
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
I haven't checked the Retro Directory in a little while, but looks like there is a retro arcade in my neck of the woods! This is not a plug, but if you haven't checked it out for things in your area, you probably should!
Andreu RetroCGA retweeted
El 4 de septiembre de 1995, hace casi 30 años, salía al aire un personaje animado que hicimos para el programa DXTV de un canal de cable local. Mi hermano hizo las animaciones en Deluxe Paint 4 AGA, y yo hice el script para controlarlo desde Scala MM300 en Amiga 1200/030 con 8MB.
