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Big Lebowski Topper, Stern IC App, Pinball Content Creators’ Favorite Games & MORE – TWIP 11/27/23

This Week in Pinball about 6 months ago

New The Big Lebowski Topper from The Electric Playground Sur... Modmakers The Electric Playground are launching a limited edition The Big Lebowski interactive pinball topper. Watch the video above or check out some of the h …
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TWIPY Season, Better Pinball Photos, Corvette Tutorial & MORE – TWIP 11/20/23

This Week in Pinball about 6 months ago

TWIPY Season Begins Break out the celebratory Slim Jims – it’s officially TWIPY season! This week, we officially announced the return of the annual TWIPY Awards, taking place live at the Texas Pinball Festival in M …
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THIS WEEK IN PINBALL – 11/13/23: TWIP Joins Kineticist!

This Week in Pinball about 6 months ago

This Week in Pinball Joins Kineticist Hi. Colin here for a special edition of This Week in Pinball.  The TLDR of it is this: TWIP is joining Kineticist. Read on for a personal story and a brief Q&A about what comes ne …
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THIS WEEK IN PINBALL – 11/6/23: Elton John Gameplay, Iron Maiden Tutorial, Brian Eddy Interview & MORE

This Week in Pinball about 7 months ago

New Elton John Gameplay Video This week, Jersey Jack released a new gameplay video for their latest game, Elton John. It’s a pre-recorded video, so a little different from a livestream approach. However, for those who pay c …
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THIS WEEK IN PINBALL – 10/30/23: Larry DeMar Interview, David Van Es Interview, Ninja Eclipse Reaction & MORE

This Week in Pinball about 7 months ago

LoserKid Interviews Larry DeMar The “Godfather of modern code” gave a very rare interview to Josh Roop with LoserKid Pinball Podcast. He talks at length about his career in pinball and video games working on all-time great g …
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Intersil Intercept III development system, color photo and ROM listing

Retro Computing Forum about 8 months ago

I found this website some years ago, before purchasing my Festo device. Recently I stumbled again on this link. In the 6100 PDFs there are poor b&w photos of an Intercept Jr and/or Intercept I/II but I think I never found an Intercept III. …
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Another retro page

Retro Computing Forum about 8 months ago

Forwarded 8080/6800/6809 deramp.com Vintage Computing Vintage Computing 5 posts - 5 participants Read full topic …
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Restoration of an IMSAI 8080

Retro Computing Forum about 8 months ago

retrocmp.de IMSAI 8080 Restoration // retrocmp / retro computing IMSAI 8080 My dream was always an Altair Mits 8800 but when an IMSAI 8080 was offered for sale in Europe in April 2023, I …
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SGS-ATES NBZ80 Nanocomputer, 2650 Mini Computer, Ohio Scientific OSI 560-Z

Retro Computing Forum about 8 months ago

Searching for Intersil, I found an OSI board compatible with both Z80 and 6100 (12 bit). There’s also a video https://users.glitchwrks... I found this sit …
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Another PDP-8 emulators and DECMate II/III ROM dumps and tools

Retro Computing Forum about 8 months ago

I found some more PDP-8 emulators. First one running under JAVA. Somehow it didn’t run under my linux (JAVA installed). But the download runs under Windows. Nice GUI almost like the MAC one with all basic devices. And an included terminal. I …
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Fischertechnik computing kits

Retro Computing Forum about 8 months ago

I found some fischertechnik broschures and photos before but now found a site with manuals, German/English. There are old and new kits. Robots, plotters, sorting machines, Towers of Hanoi etc. The Pneumatic system (collaboration with Festo is …
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Virtual lecture - Soviet Computing

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

Eventbrite Virtual lecture - Soviet Computing. Soviet Computing- Kateryna Yushchenko Event at The National Museum of Computing on Soviet Computing. Date and time: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 1 …
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Tom Harte's (et al) JSON CPU Tests

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

This may be of interest to anyone writing an emulator: A number of test suites for various processors, consisting of JSON files per instruction code with various test samples, including, code, start and end states, cycles and memory involved i …
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Superman 3 computers, data center and control room

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

There are some good scenes in Superman 3 (1983). Data center, terminals and a control room. And BASIC. My favourite scene is that where Richard Pryor tried to enter both keys at the same time but his arms are too short. I think it’s part of …
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BCPL manual from 1974

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

DTIC The BCPL Reference Manual BCPL is a language which is readable and easy to learn, as well as admitting an efficient compiler capable of generating efficient code. It is made self consistent and easy to define ac …
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Olivetti's Programma 101 - iconic early programmable desktop calculator

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

I do like the look of this machine! And it had a connection to HP’s 9100, which turned out to be expensive for HP. Here’s a three minute(!) documentary: Programma 101- Memory of Future And here’s an article: pingdom.co …
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Matt Regan makes his own CPUs (videos)

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

Here’s his latest, an Apple 2 rebuild, using his own TTL-constructed 6502. TTL Apple 2 computer. No 6502 required. (He’s a fan of using EPROMs for function lookup, which cuts the package count a lot, but of course uses lots (and lots) of …
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"Calculators 1968-1983" A pop-up exhibit (and collection)

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

Calculators 1968-1983 is a pop-up exhibition by Greg Maletic, of his own collection. Here’s a very short video from this article (which has a nice slideshow too):Vintage calculators go on display in Portland You’ll see large, small, slim, …
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A tiny self-hosted Forth (and an interesting Basic too)

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

A particular (interesting) tiny self-hosted Forth, by Kragen Javier Sitaker: GitHub GitHub - kragen/stoneknifeforth: a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation. Contribute t …
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Life-bit, Heartbeat, Watchdog, BEX-Modul

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

My PLC device or better the main PLC I don’t have, has a BEX-Modul. I searched the web with no results. In my manual, I recently found the meaning it’s a “Befehlsausführungsmodul für extern angefordete Befehle”. I also haven’t foun …
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The Tech Model Railroad club (MIT, 1946 onwards, Hacker culture)

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

TMRC was featured as the first chapter of the book Hackers, by Steven Levy (New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984). The club is credited as one (possibly the primary) source of the Hacker Culture, as described in the book. Several entries of …
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How the DP 2200 architecture motivated the Intel instruction set (righto.com)

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

The Intel 8008 and subsequently the Intel 8086 line of microprocessors feature some rather peculiar design decisions. Ken Shirriff wrote a very informative article on how this was specifically motivated by the architecture of the Datapoint 220 …
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Feedback/suggestions on the architecture of the Continuum 93 fantasy computer

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

Hi there, Last year I was tempted to purchase the computer I started programming on in my childhood. It was a HC2000, a romanian clone of the ZX spectrum, 48k basic, floppy disk. I loved that machine and now they are extremely rare to come by. …
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Lectron and Brick’R’knowledge block electronic kits

Retro Computing Forum about 10 months ago

Lectron/ Braun Lectron /Egger-Lectron was a 1966 series of Electronic kits consisting of magnetic blocks. en.wikipedia.org Raytheon Lectron Lectron was a modular electronic experimentation kit designed to introduce yo …

Input Devices • Weird Menu Navigation Issue using IPAC2 - Keyboard

MISTerFPGA about 10 months ago

Hey,after hours and hours of tinkering I have my arcade basically 99.9% setup and that makes me super happy but there is a single remaining Issue I am unable to understand or solve.I am using an IPAC2 in keyboard mode for my arcade controls. The joystick …