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Hank G ☑️
Turns out it’s core is Print Shop but patching it so that it loads from the hard disk, has some other upgrades, etc. In many ways that’s even more impressive. Also the presenter wrote his own custom presentation program that runs on Apple II so could build a self contained presentation/demo of the software. #RetroComputing #InitHello #apple2
#apple2
Bits&Terminal Jeff

Unsubscribed from another retro YT channel who started to use genAI images as thumbnails.

Part of the appeal of old computers is getting away from the worst aspects of current tech. Shoving AI slop images as a thumbnail on what I think will be a very good video just means I won't watch it or anything else of yours.

#retroComputing#genAI
Telmo 🦕

🌟 On the 40th anniversary of the Amiga, I made a decision.

Once my retro Mac station is fully set up — upgraded, tuned, and running just the way I want — I’ll part with the extra machines to fund a proper Amiga setup.

The Mac station is an exercise in nostalgia. The Amiga station will be one of total discovery — I never had one back in the day.

#amiga#amiga40#retrocomputing
paulrickards

I'm late to the party, but I see Japan sold 3.5" floppy disks of MIDI music (SMF=Standard MIDI Files) from pop bands in the 90's. It also looks like they were sometimes sold in a CD jewel case but with a special insert to hold a floppy disk.

I couldn't find a 3D model for a floppy jewel case insert, so I remixed one. New model uploaded linked below.

Your band's next floppy release, maybe? 💾

printables.com/model/1365838-3

#RetroComputing#MIDI#FloppyDisk
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Ken Case

Someday I really should also track down a good 9-track tape drive to recover some of these even older files archived on mag tapes. These represent an even bigger challenge, not just because of the variety of media (with densities from 800bpi - 6250bpi, but probably most commonly 1600bpi), but also from the variety of archiving formats: VAX/VMS backups, BSD/Ultrix/SunOS dumps and/or tape archives, and whatever format I was using to write files from NOS on the Cyber.

#RetroComputing
Ken Case

Stumbled across my old NeXT "floptical" disc while looking through old boxes at the office! I've been wondering where this had gone for a few decades now: I have archives of most of my files from 1992 (when we founded Omni) through the present, but this was where I had archived my active files for several of the years prior.

Now to see if any of our NeXT cubes still has a working magneto-optical drive that can read this data…

#RetroComputing
Games That I Missed

I've upgraded to the newest, fanciest version of Mastodon for Apple II (by @colin_mcmillen), along with the accompanying update to surl-server. My IIgs has been sitting unused for a few months as I sorted out a lot of things in the office and dealt with the summer chaos. But it deserves to be up and running here in the corner, so I've tidied up its table and reconnected all the many cables.

#IIgs#Apple2#Retrocomputing
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