The Winter #Olympics continue! ⛷️
🏂 Celebrate gaming history by revisiting 1985’s "Winter Games" from our classic software collection ❄️
💾 #SoftwarePreservation is how we go for the Gold! 🥇
🕹️ Play it on your favorite vintage platform ⤵️
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#8bit
Would you like to see UNIX V4 on MissPiggy? #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #unix #softwarepreservation
❄️ ’Tis the season to celebrate with Sierra On-Line’s 1986 "A Computer Christmas." ❄️ Thanks to #softwarepreservation, this retro holiday classic is now a perennial gift for new generations of holiday revelers. 🦌🎄
See all the animated sequences ⤵️
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#TechHistory #retrogaming
Software preservation is a key theme, with discussions on technical aspects of emulating older systems and the role of projects like Mac OS 9 Lives. It underscores the effort required to keep historical computing accessible. #SoftwarePreservation 5/6
An ICQ Respond-Online panel, showing several buttons: Chat Me ICQ Me Add Me Page Me Zoom Me Email Notify Me
anyone else remember the page html you could add from icq to show your on/offline status on your homepage 😅
#icq #1990s #softwarePreservation
today's buried treasure:
an interview with john henry thompson on the history of Macromedia Director. it's one of the only interviews ever recorded on the subject.
as the lead programmer and creator of Lingo - the OO scripting language used in director - he relates intimate knowledge of its […]
tim strike's telegard.net website, circa its last update in 1999 Telegard Product Information Home Guestbook Telegard Information Resources Download File Archive Other Software fks Software Telegard Information Telegard BBS Software is a full featured bulletin board system software for beginners and experts! Features include a full message section with JAM and Squish formats, a full file section w/file tagging & CDROM support, multinode & multilingual support, powerful menus, scripts, and door support! Telegard 3.09.g2 Service Pack 4 Release - Y2K Fixes Service pack 4 for Telegard 3.09.g2-sp3 fixes all the known Y2K problems (pertaining mostly to subscription expiry). The service pack contains a binary fix and some other supplemental files to update both the DOS and OS/2 3.09.g2-sp3 releases. NOTE: You must already have applied the sp3 service pack in order to apply sp4. Download Telegard 3.09.g2 Service Pack 4 (tg309sp4.zip, 583K) Telegard 3.09.g2 Service Pack 3 Release Service pack 3 for Telegard 3.09.g2 fixes most (if not all) the known problems and bugs with Telegard 3.09.g2. The service pack contains a binary fix and some other supplemental files to update both the DOS and OS/2 3.09g2 releases. Download Telegard 3.09.g2 Service Pack 3 (tg309sp3.zip, 282K) Telegard 3.09.g2
bbs enthusiasts might remember the name Telegard - a bbs server written based on wwiv's source code and hugely popular with the ibm pc/ms-dos crowd
telegard had a long and tumultuous history by its authors, and its own source was eventually leaked and was modded […]
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A Captain Steven Hiller action figure by Trend Setters toy company. It shows a 3.5 inch ID4 mission disk in the back of the package.
TIL a toy company released a line of Independence Day toys in the late 90s; each toy included a different "mission disk" floppy with a little game on it for windows 3.1
toy collector @eisnerguy1 managed to collect all 11 of the toys and uploaded disk images to […]
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SIMP_SND.DLL contains every sound used in the berkeley systems simpsons after dark screensaver
it turns out to be a long chain of unsigned 8-bit RIFF waveform 11025hz files
extracted here for your pleasure
#simpsons #macintosh #softwarePreservation
A screenshot of the nifty-serve login on an iPhone, showing japanese characters and a menu.
A screenshot of the nifty-serve login on an iPhone, showing japanese characters and a menu.
til about japan's Nifty-Serve online service, which was designed to be japan's answer to CompuServe.
while renown for its online forums, i was impressed to see that it was also a shareware distribution service. you could pay for and download registered versions […]
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as promised, the treasure trove of US Robotics dialup ISP software is now available on IA. Please note that while I've done my best to describe the software, none of it has been tested. If you're planning on doing something like firmware upgrades, be 100% sure it's the right equipment and […]
A directory listing on an ftp server three continents away. It shows over a dozen files for US Robotics modems. Of incredible interest are the "Modem Pool Upgrades" and NetServer files, which are for commercial ISPs. the user has typed "you are a hero rolando" into the ftp command line.
i just ftp'd into a public ftp server running in Ecuador, and discovered an absolutely critical piece of US Robotics ISP modem pool software that has been missing for 20 years
thank you from the bottom of my heart, rolando felix of Educational Unit 10 De Agosto […]
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way back in 2017, jackson lango started writing a dev log about his passion project: an ascii/ansi adventure called Terminal Rain.
i was instantly in love with his lighting and animation. in an era overloaded with knockoff cyberpunk aesthetics, he had a keen eye […]
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An ad for Word City and Math Ace. It shows both games sitting on a plate with the tagline below, "It's brussel sprouts for the brain."
An ad for The Incredible Machine Version 3.0 It shows a screenshot of the game with copy promoting the game.
An ad for 3D Dinosaur Adventure, showing a screenshot from the edutainment software and some copy describing it.
if you were a kid in the 90s or early 2000s, you very likely goofed around with some of this educational software at school, or if your parents hated you sufficiently, at home.
a few months ago someone generously sent me an educational software catalog that […]
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while i despise scroll-based article formats, this html5 article on the history of VB is 👍👍
https://retool.com/visual-basic
#visualbasic #programming #softwarePreservation #history
The cover of Millionaire: The Stock Market Simulation by Blue Chip Software. It is a vinyl executive folio case, unusual for a computer game.
The interior of the Millionaire folio case, showing a faux gold-gilt manual, diskette with gold label, and an ad sheet for the game.
A VISA transaction record, on yellow paper (the customer copy). Real Canadian Superstore #1572, Edmonton Alta. The customer is Robert I. G., purchased on July 20, 1985 for $52.88.
over the years i've become more interested in game/software ephemera than the software itself.
for example, few people under 20 have grown up with a local computer store or brick & mortar store that sells boxed games. biking over to the computer store to line up […]
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The big box cover for GeoWorks Pro: The Complete Hands on Working Model. It shows human hands around the edges of the box, reaching toward the center. A sticker reads: "What Windows 3.0 Should Have Been"
TIL GeoWorks - the graphical environment for the rest of us - had a shareware edition. it was $10, and let you use anything, except you couldn't save your data.
is this the only existing shareware OS?
thank you to @floppyarchaeology for scanning in the […]
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We are happy to share the preprint and slides of the paper "The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System" by Eleanor Young et al.:
interlisp.org/documentatio...
interlisp.org/documentatio...
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#retrocomputing #interlisp #lisp #SoftwarePreservation
i noticed that John Broomhall's exceptionally creepy X-COM UFO Defense soundtrack for the (surprisingly good) PSX port didn't have a lossless version available anywhere.
that has been now rectified:
https://archive.org/details/x-com-ufo-defense-ost-psx
extended digipres info for anyone […]
The Story of X-Copy: Amiga’s Most Famous Copy Tool & Rare Cyclone Hardware
#Amiga #RetroComputing #XCopy #KryoFlux #SoftwarePreservation #RobSmithDev #VintageGaming #Cyclone
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Because of @archive.org, I was able to find that rare MAD Magazine CD-ROM that was bundled with issue 350 sometime back in 1996. I probably threw the poor thing away, because I didn't have a CD player, or a computer with a CD drive.
#SoftwarePreservation
