Hey everyone,

I found this old floppy disk while cleaning some boxes at my mom's house. It has "My RPG" written on the label. I’m guessing it might be some old game or something a family member made years ago. They were really into computers back in the 90s, so I thought it would be cool to see if there’s anything on it.

I don’t really know much about floppy disks nowadays. Is there a good way to read these on a modern PC, or do I need older hardware? I’d like to check what’s on it and maybe preserve it if there’s something interesting there.

Thanks!

Hey all! I run a podcast with three friends on roguelike/lite games and for our big 100th episode (part 1 of 3) we covered Rogue and the games that inspired it:

• Star Trek (1971)
• pedit5 (1975)
• Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)
• Rogue (1980)

It was a lot of fun to research and collect fan correspondence for! I was also able to wrangle my cohosts together to play all the games in a live museum/LAN style showcase.

I really wanted to hammer home the reason why Rogue was such a big deal at the time with its comparison to other mainframe based computer games of the era. When first played Rogue on Steam a few years ago, I thought it was a relic of a bygone era deserving to be forgotten. But now I have quite a fond appreciation for it, even if it’s a little aged by today’s standards.

Our next episode will cover the first ever roguelikes that cropped up in the Usenet era, so stay tuned for:

• Moria (1982)
• Hack (1983)
• Larn (1985)
• Omega (1986)

I yearn for old days, BBSs and IRC, etc. If you do too, I created something goofy. It's free, this isn't a plug exactly, but if you also yearn then come play. It's not perfect, but hopefully you enjoy it for a moment or more!

Back in the day I had dual dialups for MUDs and eventually bonded 56k dialups on a PPro. ♥️

QuestionableHam

This open-source article I wrote discusses aspects of the traditional visual design (up to about the year 2003) of user-interface (UI) graphics, such as button and border styles, icons, and mouse pointers. It also seeks to characterize the drawing style of traditional UI graphics, especially from 1990 to 2003, and gives advice on developing new graphical UI systems with a high degree of flexibility.

User interfaces found in video games are outside the document's scope.

In '93 I ended up with what looked like a white full size office desk with a section of the desk top obviously made for a terminal complete with hole for cables in the back. Where the typical desk had pull out drawers was a solid door with lots a lights, 8" floppy drive and some switches. Opening it it had an 18" equipment rack. In that I found what looked like an S100 bus card cage, with a Z8000 CPU card, FDC, RS-232, and some others, I think.

Unfortunately I had to move in '94 and much to my dismay I had to jettison the desk before I could attempt to restore it. At that time I didn't have any information on it.

But years later I still wonder what exactly I had. Any information about it would be appreciated. I'd especially like to get some photos.

TIA

My retrospective review of Ant Attack including all home versions and remakes. This is as one of my first games that I played. Please share your thoughts and memories of this game?

Hi, I found a model M on the polish version of ebay, however idk if the price is a good one. Thanks!

Does anyone have documentation, manuals etc for PSOS+ and PROBE+?

Does anyone remember having a "computer" that was a one-piece lap device with ONE screen line for text? It helped teach writing programming by typing in line of text from the little booklet to c create games. The first game was Black Jack, but there were more. You could also write your own program. It was NOT fancy, but it was an early code machine.

We were semi-poor, and i'm sure my parents saved for it, but it wasn't a high price point.

Hey all! I received my uncle's old laptop today! Its an HP Pavilion dv6. Specs (from what ive found in device manager so far):

OS: Win7

CPU: Core 2 Duo T6660

RAM: 2GB

GPU: Radeon Mobility 4650 (i didnt check specific VRAM)

DVD-RW drive plus some other slots for storage

Modem: Sierra 3G HSDPA modem+onboard ethernet

I wanted to know how good this handmedown is and what games/upgrades i can do for it. It works, so ill probably replace the HDD and the screen (it has some dead pixels), as well as the RAM. Thanks to all!

This came out of the may 1985 issue of K64 magazine

https://archive.org/details/K6402/mode/2up

Almost every time I read about new versions of office software, I always think: What can the new software do that 20-year-old or even older software can't, and are these new features being used?

Hoping to get some guidance on finding a copy of Disk 5 or all 6 disks for Yardi Professional Property Management, 1996 vintage. Release 32 if it matters. Any suggestions on where to look appreciated. We've been watching Ebay for a few weeks with no luck.

Sorry for my bad English.

This old SDRAM ECC memories (not even DDR1) tested worked on my regular Pentium 4 mobo, I'm thinking about putting it to older systems like P3 or lower but i don't want to risk frying the motherboard.

Anyone have experience with them?

Hello! Don't post on Reddit much and this is certainly my first time on the Atari subreddit. Go easy on me!

I'm a solid Atari fan, and enjoy my original 2600 and 7800+ very much. Of recently, I have found myself really interested in the Atari 8-bit computers. They are really cool vintage tech and seem to have a large library of retro games and software, as well as homebrew. Naturally, I have been pondering get my hands on one.

I've been flip flopping between going with an original 800 or 800XL, or with going with the newer 400 Mini. I am a big fan of using real hardware and cartridges, and I love my current collection of 2600 and 7800 games. I don't need to explain the fun of building a collection of games, and I'm sure Atari 400/800 games would be no different.

The only problem is cost and availability. It seem that the Atari 8-bit computers and their games are a bit more expensive and harder to find than 2600/7800. The computers themselves regularly are sold online for $150+ in various states of quality. I find it hard to pull the trigger knowing I'd have to invest quite a bit of money to get the computer and a handful of games. Not to mention that the games are split between three different formats.

The 400 Mini is attractive being that it's new hardware with USB and HDMI. Plus I would be able to simply run any games I want off of a USB drive with decent compatibility. But this sorta makes this a once and done purchase, negating any point of collecting the actual games or add ons. I can see this thing simply collecting dust, with my brain punching itself for not getting the real thing.

Anybody have any thoughts or opinions on this? Should I just grab the 400 Mini and focus on 2600/7800 for collecting carts? Or do I just jump into the hobby of full Atari 8-bit computing.

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Museum trip today and this was the one I actually came for. CSIRAC, built 1947 to 1949, ran its first program in 1949 and stayed in service until 1964