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A display of a Power Macintosh G4 running Mac OS X "Tiger" showing a PicoIDE hard drive listed in the Disk Utility application.

It's sooo cool, seeing the PicoIDE in Mac OS X. Here's a Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver) running 10.4.11 with the PicoIDE set to IDE (hard drive) mode. It sees the drive fine and will even boot to it! 👍

Video coming soon!

🌐 picoide.com
Pre-order yours: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

#picoide

10 hours left for the PicoIDE, you can watch this video by Rees if you want to know more about the device

www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

The $69 PicoIDE Is A Game Changer For Vintage Computing YouTube video by ctrl-alt-rees

As the #PicoIDE campaign on Crowd Supply enters its final hours (www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...), @ctrl-alt-rees.com has come out with a fantastic video all about the PicoIDE! And wow it looks good in that baby AT case. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_t...

YouTube thumbnail of a 90s PC on a desk running Quake with the text "O.D.E. for PC" overlaid and an obligatory Big Red Arrow.

New Video: The PicoIDE is a brand new IDE optical and hard drive emulator for classic computers. Based on the Raspberry Pi RP2350 and ESP32, it's easy to use, open source, low cost, fully featured, and set to be an absolute game changer for the vintage computing hobby.

youtu.be/MG_t0Ti3_rY

All wine is mulled when you think about it.

Screenshot of the PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign, showing $224,772 and 643% in funding.

Whoops, I missed my chance to make the “640% should be enough for everybody” joke. But it’s obviously not enough because the PicoIDE campaign keeps going. 6 days left! I’m blown away by how far it’s come. BTW the last update I posted brought even more people with weird systems out of the woodwork!

Interesting! He wasn't last time I checked it out, although that was quite a while back. So Heber are either taking over / collabing on it and / or adding official support to the MMS2? Exciting either way!

Playing arcade Marble Madness on the #MiSTerFPGA desktop arcade unit with trackball.

You're putting Rob's floppy adapter into production!? 😮

Red Dwarf Creator Rob Grant Has Died Tributes have been paid to Rob Grant, the comedy writer best known as the co-creator of long running hit sitcom Red Dwarf. Frant was also one of the main writers on Spitting IMage for many years, writ...

Rob Grant, one of the two creators of Red Dwarf has died. Smeg. #RedDwarf

www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1719...

how come there's a thousand songs about love but only one song about some guy named "Bruce" who's bringing you down

When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down.

Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them.

AI thumbnails can get in the bin - particularly the creepy ones where it's a scantily-clad young girl slapped onto a video of some weird old bloke rambling on about old computers in his shed.

me: i like this thing.
the internet: that thing sucks. you are stupid for liking it. i like this totally unrelated thing.

this is rude behavior. it is antisocial and weird. why are people like this. if you wouldn't do it irl it is rude to do it on the internet.

Further adventures in Aliexpress listings #156:

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That's a big one

THE FURBY ORGAN, A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MADE FROM FURBIES YouTube video by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

Hopefully it involves this...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLB...

Eurovision 2026: Electronic artist and YouTuber Look Mum No Computer to represent UK in Vienna The synth artist and Eurovision fan says he finds it

Completely unexpected and very cool indeed. Been a huge fan of Sam's work for years now.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'd quite like an Andy Crane one if we're doing requests.

Amiga memories - Cecconoid YouTube video by Martin Piper's mostly Commodore related memories

I look at #Amiga "Cecconoid" published in 2024 by Thalamus. It uses a dual playfield mode, with CPU updating particles, the blitter modifies particle code, and hardware sprite multiplex with the copper.
youtu.be/7OVBSs_Rl60

Gotek refurbishment for my Amiga A500 YouTube video by Yawning Angel Retro

Join me, a software guy, for a ‘very much hands on’ hardware video as I refurb an old external Gotek drive for my Amiga A500, ‘Big Red’.

Trust me, it’s quite the journey, and has scenes of manual labour. 😱😅

youtu.be/fSi-pppNfd8

#amiga #retrocomputing

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

PicoIDE CD-ROM IDE ATAPI Emulator

DOS YouTube legend PhilsComputerLab has a pre-release PicoIDE and put it through its paces in optical disc emulation mode in his latest video: youtu.be/KNv3sf-rCAM

A square marble tile with a shiny metal ball on it next to some papers and a coffee mug.

I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.

Yes, it can run Doom!! 😀

IBM PS/1 Model 2133/486.
Photo shot in my studio. Retro setups, CRT scanlines, genuine hardware, floppy disks, ball mouse and wild joystick.

For more authentic retro, visit
youtube.com/@RetroDream

Always a good time

The Beatles - The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Music Video) YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO

You know, it's been over 2 years and I still can't get over how bad this music video is

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxh...

A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip

(with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

DOOM running on an industrial cake machine

New Video: Id Software's 1993 FPS DOOM has a long-standing tradition of being run on all sorts of weird and wonderful devices. But there's one device that's been sorely missing: a multi-million pound industrial cake machine. So I decided to rectify that once and for all...

youtu.be/BHSOVnahKjY