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Screenwriter #Retrocomputing/#RetroGaming: https://www.youtube.com/@reenthused #IndieDev: https://tonsomo.itch.io #Film: https://www.youtube.com/@roguegunners If I don’t follow you, it’s probably because you post too much politics

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Yeah and I doubt my complaint is going to go anywhere

07.03.2026 07:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There was a sudden burst of people downloading the Jaguar demo of Jurl. I can only assume it was shared somewhere but I couldn't find it. That's basically how I discovered a tosser was ripping it off

07.03.2026 07:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A red box of Typhoo tea with a yellow and black New and improved banner

A red box of Typhoo tea with a yellow and black New and improved banner

Oh no, the dreaded banner

07.03.2026 07:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Woof, that’s a start to the season #F1

07.03.2026 05:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They’ve just copied and pasted text from my jokey Steam release

“Once in a while a game is released that changes the industry … this is not that game”

06.03.2026 21:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The thing that really annoys me about this is, if he'd come to me and said "I want to sell some carts, i'll bung you the £1 you charge for the rom when I sell them" i'd have been fine.

06.03.2026 21:06 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pardon Our Interruption...

Wanker www.ebay.com/itm/16798394...

06.03.2026 20:57 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0
A large white Labrador with a heap of toys sitting in a brown leather sofa

A large white Labrador with a heap of toys sitting in a brown leather sofa

8 years old today #DogsOfBluesky

06.03.2026 12:39 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New computing history book! 📚
Voices of a Future Passed tells how the BBC Micro changed the world, with interviews from BBC, Acorn & ARM pioneers.

Author Rob Napier is donating 50p per Amazon sale to UK computer museums. You can also pick up a copy in our museum shop!

🔗 amzn.eu/d/0bauqEgb

05.03.2026 17:24 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1

If you’ve ever thought about supporting the project now would be a great time. Patreon supporters get a direct look at the game’s progress, locations, character designs and more. #gamedev

www.patreon.com/Retrosegadev...

05.03.2026 22:14 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A computer screen displays a series of messages indicating timeouts while waiting for ARP/RARP packets. The last message mentions using RARP/BOOTPARAMS and shows the Internet address as 10.0.0.2.

A computer screen displays a series of messages indicating timeouts while waiting for ARP/RARP packets. The last message mentions using RARP/BOOTPARAMS and shows the Internet address as 10.0.0.2.

No it isn’t - or maybe the CDs I made aren’t good - but either way it isn’t working. And I’m stuck at the same place, I’m pretty sure it’s a bootparamd thing

05.03.2026 21:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Sun now recognised it as a CDRom on scsi port 6 - but that appears to be it

05.03.2026 19:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This may all now be moot - I think the CDRom is once more working

05.03.2026 19:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A close-up image of a blue battery with a black label and wires, the battery is swollen

A close-up image of a blue battery with a black label and wires, the battery is swollen

A blue lithium-ion battery pack labeled "CASIO," with specifications indicating it has a voltage of 3.7V and a capacity of 750mAh. Safety warnings against incineration, disassembly, and exposure to high temperatures are printed on it

A blue lithium-ion battery pack labeled "CASIO," with specifications indicating it has a voltage of 3.7V and a capacity of 750mAh. Safety warnings against incineration, disassembly, and exposure to high temperatures are printed on it

05.03.2026 17:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The charging led briefly lights up, so either the battery isn’t there or it’s dead (I mean - either way it’s definitely dead after all this time)

05.03.2026 17:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Probably not actually

05.03.2026 17:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Casio handheld device with a flip cover is placed on a patterned cloth surface. The device features a blank screen and a row of icons at the top, along with a control panel at the bottom. A gray and yellow cable connector is visible near

A Casio handheld device with a flip cover is placed on a patterned cloth surface. The device features a blank screen and a row of icons at the top, along with a control panel at the bottom. A gray and yellow cable connector is visible near

The image shows a handheld device with a CompactFlash card labeled "Sea Sniper" and marked as 32 MB. The device appears to be a Casio model, with visible battery and rating information on the back. The background features a plaid fabric

The image shows a handheld device with a CompactFlash card labeled "Sea Sniper" and marked as 32 MB. The device appears to be a Casio model, with visible battery and rating information on the back. The background features a plaid fabric

Received this little Casio Windows CE machine, looking a little Palm like too. Someone’s been at the battery so it may not work, but it did come with a game on CF card

05.03.2026 17:33 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No, that the old caddy mount DC for professional games players

05.03.2026 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If it wasn’t a work one, maybe

05.03.2026 17:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A display of a Power Macintosh G4 running Mac OS X "Tiger" showing a PicoIDE hard drive listed in the Disk Utility application.

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

05.03.2026 16:19 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

No that TV actually has quite a good RF input - it even handles NTSC signals

05.03.2026 14:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A hand is holding a metallic sticker labeled "CBS ColecoVision Video Game/Home Computer System" with "Expansion Module Interface" inscribed on it. The background includes a laptop keyboard and parts of clothing.

A hand is holding a metallic sticker labeled "CBS ColecoVision Video Game/Home Computer System" with "Expansion Module Interface" inscribed on it. The background includes a laptop keyboard and parts of clothing.

Another little task for the weekend, received a replacement fascia sticker for the ColecoVision. For some reason I could only buy them in threes - so I guess I can make two mistakes

05.03.2026 12:23 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Close-up of a Raspberry Pi circuit board housed in a case. Visible components include USB ports, an HDMI port, and wiring with red and black cables.

Close-up of a Raspberry Pi circuit board housed in a case. Visible components include USB ports, an HDMI port, and wiring with red and black cables.

Found a Pi3 inside (neatly enough) my piSparc - can’t reproduce the setup that worked once though

05.03.2026 08:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s at this point that I really wish I didn’t just have a Pi2 spare …

04.03.2026 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I *think* something is happening now - I added -r to the rpcbind parameters and tcpview seems to show NFS data

04.03.2026 22:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Yeah, it seems more aimed at Linux distros than something like Solaris for Sparc

04.03.2026 21:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm sure the dhcp is working, because the client definitely seems to load the initial inetboot file.

04.03.2026 21:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

New plan, possibly out of desperation - i'm going to try ubuntu on the pi. It seems that bootparam is broken on some linux distros

04.03.2026 21:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah, that’s a good shout - I haven’t fiddled with the NFS configuration, other than setting the root - I wonder what it defaults as

04.03.2026 20:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A vertical silver device with a green power indicator, featuring a USB port and audio jacks on one side. It is placed on a desk with a computer keyboard, remote control, and laptop in the background, with dark curtains behind.

A vertical silver device with a green power indicator, featuring a USB port and audio jacks on one side. It is placed on a desk with a computer keyboard, remote control, and laptop in the background, with dark curtains behind.

I might be a bit snappy - I’ve been trying to get this working for the best part of two days and it’s annoying me somewhat. But, not only did my new camera arrive - but also this, which is largely useless until I actually get a working Solaris installation

04.03.2026 20:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0