@bigbadbiologist
Big Bad Biologist. Doggo daddo. Alliteration Aficionado. (I'm a retro computing enthusiast that livestreams a lot of my restoration work, normally at noon eastern on Saturdays) Trumpers please kindly fuck off. https://www.youtube.com/@BigBadBench
Running from now until Friday, March 13th, I need your help with some research I'm conducting. Full explanation in the survey. Let's have fun with this!
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New video: @hackerboxes.bsky.social 0123 "Matrix" is up! HUB75 64x32 RGB LED matrix+Raspberry Pi Pico 2. Complex under the hood, but easy when you're standing on the shoulders of giants.(@adafruit.com Protomatter) Thanks to @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for sponsoring this one
youtu.be/ylR5WNxnWPU
@lazybluegoat.bsky.social ‘s Q660av board out of the ultrasonic bath and… oh. Hmm.
An headshot image of red-haired Rebecca Heineman whilst performing at an industry talk
Rebecca Heineman will posthumously receive the Ambassador Award at the GDC Awards.
A games industry legend - first ever game tournament champion in 1980, Interplay co-founder, Bard's Tale 3 designer, worked on the PSP, PS4, Xbox360, many ports... 👏
(Read more at GamesIndustry)
I gotta admit, I'm pretty excited about this one. Bob "Dr. Macintosh" LeVitus is one of my favorite tech writers. Books, newspapers, magazines, blogs... you too have no doubt read his work.
He helped folks keep the faith even in some of the darkest times!
youtu.be/BCHMHAiCaMk
My First #MARCHintosh video of the Year is out!
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My first #marchintosh stream of the month! Let's try to repair a couple of Quadra 660av logic boards and try video input with them through my Mavica. Also, I want to show off what I have learned about this Sierra Video Systems Delta rack thing. (Noon EST on the 7th) youtube.com/live/-d5jHDI...
Any Democrat elected official who doesn’t bring this energy needs to be voted out. Primary them all. Useless.
IT'S OVER ONE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND
#PicoIDE
Oh, hims so wittle hims needs a wittle boost. I come from the south where we do have middle names Larry Joe, Betty Lou, Billy Bob, but MarkWayne is a new one on me.
New Ayatollah just dropped.
New Doom8088 and elksdoom releases. This release is almost 5% faster than the previous release.
Why didn't I think of optimizing the BSP trees with a node builder before?
github.com/FrenkelS/Doo...
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
The Trump administration putting the screws to their most consistent racist voters in the northeast, The White Men of Boston, just before the midterms seems like a bad plan
Honestly, you're lucky Scientists aren't under your window all night reading aloud from their latest research.
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
New blog post! This TRS-80 Model 1 was found in the bottom of a trash bin, smashed to bits by heavy printers and cash registers above it. Will it ever run again?
#retrocomputing #trs80 #tandy
www.leadedsolder.com/2026/03/03/t...
Just a name change, no change in marker, and invalidated anyways.
You know who also has name changes?
Married women.
Fascism comes for us all.
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There has never been an easier time to bootstrap your old mac using InfinateMac and a @bluescsi.com! Just in time for #MARCHintosh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwv7...
My channel hit a fun number. Thank you everyone for the support over the last 4 years of doing this silly thing I do! (#Marchintosh happens to fall on my channel start anniversary)
Isn’t that what Polymarket is for? Is that just for betting when the violence starts?
Yeah, that’s a good option if you can find sockets for a reasonable price.
If you haven't seen Rudy's video about the new Reconnaisance package for diagnosing classic Macs, then why are you waiting?
If you need some, just solder some precision headers on (just a heads up that it seems like many boards that use SIPP require parity)
A while back I made a video where I figured out how to run the built in ROM diags on a Mac SE/30 over its serial port. I documented the work and some smart folks have turned that work into an easy to use program that anyone can use:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K48v...
Great resource to fix a bad Mac!
#marchintosh present for my Quadra 950: Upgrade to 192MB of RAM. Is it stupid? Yes. Am I mad that I didn’t buy one more set to bring it to 256? Also yes.
It’s almost like the FIFA Peace Prize doesn’t mean anything anymore
The incredible Jack68k made a piece of software that is almost a Tech Step (with potentially more flexibility) for those of us that can’t afford an actual Tech Step. Total game changer for those of us that work on old Macs!
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/reco...
reconnaissanceapp.com
