#introduction: Hey everyone, since my previous Mastodon instance is closing soon, I've made my way over here. I'm a Master's student in Computational Engineering currently finishing up my thesis with a history of working in technical support. I'm an enthusiast of #retrogaming and #retrocomputing, with a cat that I adore. I'll be enthusiastic to see your beloved pets as well!
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@danslerush@floss.social
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2d ago
DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ
@danslerush@floss.social
Part-time Coder. Graphic designer. FLOSS lover. Lousy webmaster. Gamer. Father. No order. French dude writing in poor English 
… and Franck IRL › Maintainer of @zemarmot › Pixelfed on @DansLeRuSH ℹ️ Lonely toots deleted after 2 years
floss.social
#GentleOS, A hobby operating system (#OS) for 16/32-bit vintage #PC
🔸16-bit Version
Minimum requirement :
· 8086+ CPU
· 192 KB RAM
· CGA display supporting 320x200x4 mode
› https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos
🔸32-bit Version
Minimum requirement :
· i386 CPU
· 4MB RAM
· VGA display supporting 640x480x16 mode
› https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32
#RetroComputing #PermaComputing
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@adventuregames@bots.ambience.sk
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3d ago
Adventure Games History
@adventuregames@bots.ambience.sk
Posting a random old adventure game from the 1990's twice a day. Made by @dusoft@fosstodon.org. Source: The Internet Game Database (IGDB). Please boost posts for visibility, not just like/star them! Profile image: verbs from Countdown, 1990 Header image: https://images.igdb.com/igdb/image/upload/t_720p/sc6e3d.webp (Amazon: Guardians of Eden, 1992)
bots.ambience.sk
Sentient, released in 1997
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows), DOS, PlayStation
Point-and-click; Adventure
Science fiction, Survival, Mystery
virus, dialogue trees, polygonal 3d, non-player character, promo vhs, male protagonist
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/sentient
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #virus #dialoguetrees #polygonal3d #nonplayercharacter #promovhs #maleprotagonist #win #dos #ps #sciencefiction #survival #mystery
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@adventuregames@bots.ambience.sk
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4d ago
Adventure Games History
@adventuregames@bots.ambience.sk
Posting a random old adventure game from the 1990's twice a day. Made by @dusoft@fosstodon.org. Source: The Internet Game Database (IGDB). Please boost posts for visibility, not just like/star them! Profile image: verbs from Countdown, 1990 Header image: https://images.igdb.com/igdb/image/upload/t_720p/sc6e3d.webp (Amazon: Guardians of Eden, 1992)
bots.ambience.sk
Gregory & the Hot Air Balloon, released in 1996
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Adventure
Comedy, Kids
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/gregory-and-the-hot-air…
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #win #comedy #kids
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Emulator Debugging: Area 5150's Lake Effect https://lobste.rs/s/9qgahc #graphics #retrocomputing
https://martypc.blogspot.com/2025/05/emulator-debugging-area-5150s-lake.html
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space
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6d ago
gloriouscow
@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space
Author of: MartyPC, a PC/XT/Jr/Tandy emulator https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc 👉 Web demo: https://martypc.net 👈 Fluxfox, a Rust disk image library https://github.com/dbalsom/fluxfox/ ArduinoX86, a framework for controlling Intel CPUs https://github.com/dbalsom/arduinoX86
oldbytes.space
My IDE cable is fine, right? I'd say it's an average length.
#retrocomputing
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@ivor@social.ivor.org
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Jun 09, 2026
Ivor Hewitt
@ivor@social.ivor.org
🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️ 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #nerd, #ultrarunner, #ironman "Quite an accomplished runner" - David Hellard Profile avatar courtesy of https://comicscamp.club/@feff Tech: #hacker #developer #thinkpad #rpi #arduino #openSUSE Sport: #cycling #ultrarunning #running Health: #migraine #TBI Search: #nobot Surrey, England
social.ivor.org
Having a clear out... anyone want a copy of NeXTStep/Developer for Intel? UK/London
#retrocomputing #nextstep
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@fasnix@fe.disroot.org
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Jun 08, 2026
flo
@fasnix@fe.disroot.org
I'm Florian, or Flo for short. Born as a gay male in 1977 near Lake Constance, now living in Dresden, Germany. Tim is my little dog, born in 2016, living with me since spring 2018 :) Toots mainly in German, some English, or Esperanto and other constructed languages, like Lingwa de Planeta (Lidepla), Mini Linga, Pandunia, Globasa. My (main) topics: #Linux #Minimalismus #Fahrrad #Barfußschuhe #Dresden and many more. I boost a lot as "we are the algorithm" :) Location: Dresden, Germany #nobots #notagspub
fe.disroot.org
So, jetzt hab ich mich hier mal auf dem alten Lenovo T400 eingeloggt.
Schön, dass ein modernes Linux (BunsenLabs) auf so alter Hardware problemls funktioniert :)
(Warum BunsenLabs? Weil schlankes System - u.a. gesehen bei c't 3000 (3003?) und ich das mal ausprobieren wollte ;)
#Linux #BunsenLabs #RetroComputing #LenovoT400
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@riley@toot.cat
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Jun 08, 2026
Riley S. Faelan
@riley@toot.cat
👩🔬 #geek girl (#software, #dsl, #retrocomputing, #electronics, #fpga, #maths, #infosec, sometimes #sre); 🧠 #neurospicy; 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #trans / #GirlsLikeUs, 💊 2018-12-13; ⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW); 🌌 #cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 #Deutschland / #Germany, 🇪🇺 #EU, 🌍 #Terra); 🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: <https://toot.cat/@riley/109575519338488877>. 𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.
toot.cat
Hello #retrocomputing (#retroprinting) Fediverse,
I'm looking for the bitmap fonts of a HP 2225 family inkjet printer or a near-descendant. Google keeps lying hallucinations at me. Where should I look at for them?
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@hp@mastodon.tmm.cx
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Jun 07, 2026
HP van Braam
@hp@mastodon.tmm.cx
@godotengine developer, http://prehensile-tales.com. They/Them. Lover of old technology. Sometimes also new.
mastodon.tmm.cx
Nobody wants these old-fashioned mice, and yes, please tell me EVERY TIME I BOOT MY COMPUTER.
I might forget how much fun my new touchpad is!
#retrocomputing
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@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services
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Jun 06, 2026
Fedi.Video 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services
Boosting interesting videos & livestreams from the Fediverse 🍿 @ or DM me if you want to suggest a video or livestream 📨 Maintained by @FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mas.to on 22nd November 2020
social.growyourown.services
Topaz is an artist and retro computing enthusiast (especially the Amiga), often making videos about creating art with old software such as DPaint or Quantel. You can follow at:
➡️ @topazrabbit@makertube.net
Don't worry if the account looks blank to you, it just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start showing up on your server too.
You can also follow their Mastodon account at @TopazRabbit@oldbytes.space
#FeaturedPeerTube #Art #Amiga #Quantel #RetroComputing #PeerTube
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@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services
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Jun 04, 2026
Fedi.Video 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services
Boosting interesting videos & livestreams from the Fediverse 🍿 @ or DM me if you want to suggest a video or livestream 📨 Maintained by @FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mas.to on 22nd November 2020
social.growyourown.services
VWestlife makes informative and droll videos about retro technology, including audio, video, computing, radio etc. You can follow their video account at:
➡️ @vwestlife_makertube
Don't worry if it looks blank to you, it just means no one from your server has followed the account yet. If you follow the account its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.
You can also follow their Mastodon account at @vwestlife@mastodon.social
#FeaturedPeerTube #RetroTech #Audio #RetroComputing #PeerTube
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@ipaschke@cyberplace.social
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Jun 03, 2026
Ingo Paschke
@ipaschke@cyberplace.social
Infosec by day, old computers, synths and electronic music by night. Degree in CS. Formerly ipaschke@mastodon.social
cyberplace.social
My NetHack 5.0.0 Classic Macintosh port is almost ready. It can now also use tile mode and the optimized tile renderer from the Amiga version runs nicely even on lower end Macs (you still need a Mac with at least 8 MB of memory).
#NetHack #Macintosh #RetroComputing #Roguelike
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@dirkdierickx@mastodon-belgium.be
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Jun 03, 2026
dirk dierickx
@dirkdierickx@mastodon-belgium.be
Lifetime geek, gaming since the Atari 2600.
mastodon-belgium.be
The source code for the iconic #Commodore #Amiga Juggler demo has been recovered and made available for download.
https://alphapixeldev.com/recovering-eric-grahams-1987-amiga-juggler-raytracer-source-code/
#demoscene #retrocomputing #retrocomputer
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net
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Jun 02, 2026
vga256
@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net
indigenous canadian, recovering academic → writer, gamedev & interactive toolsmith, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, classic macs, and 80s/90s gaming. curator of internet, canadian & gaming historical obscura. → mages & modems: memoir of growing up with computers in the 80s & 90s https://tomotama.com/books → exigy: love2d shareware creation kit https://exigy.org → cd-rom safari podcast: https://cd-rom.ca/podcast I do not read or reply to Private Messages. (profile: a 6¢ canada red fox stamp)
mastodon.tomodori.net
after years of digging and research, i finally found the toolkit that was used to make MS multimedia software Encarta, Dinosaurs and Dangerous Creatures.
when i fell in love with these programs, i imagined they were built with a rich multimedia authoring environment/IDE like Macromedia Director. e.g. dragging and dropping images, sounds, text and video onto a stage, animating it with keyframes, and then scripting it for interaction.
the toolkit used was, as it turns out, a very roughly hewn collection of individual programs. there was no IDE. all of the content was written in RTF files, which were then compiled with links to external resources like wavs and avi's.
i cannot imagine what a nightmare this was for the MS Home teams to work with. there is no drag and drop of any kind, no object linking and embedding (OLÉ!), nor animation editor. this is a dog's breakfast of individual programs written by different people.
i'm frankly amazed that the MS Homes teams put together such well-designed programs *despite* how painful this toolkit is to use
the one thing i can say in its favour is that it has one badass tetricube logo for cover art :D
huge thank you to @philpem@digipres.club for archiving this extremely obscure piece of software
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-multimedia-viewer-2.0-rips-20210921-1.7z
#multimedia #cdrom #retrocomputing #win31
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@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net
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May 27, 2026
Mark Newton
@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net
Australia. Pug owner. Private pilot. Professional internet geek. Opinions vary. “Strong and healthy communities look out for their most vulnerable members first.” — Daniel Reeders, 15 February 2025
eigenmagic.net
Historical IBM training film about System/360 data storage. Tells us a lot about how they were thinking st the time. #retrocomputing https://youtu.be/zokKqP0plrM
1950s PowerPoint.
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Just happen to see this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283099
https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf
"MacSurf, a web browser port of Netsurf for Mac OS 9 with native TLS"
Downloaded it to the #iBook running #MacOS9 and started MacSurf. I could browse sites like #osnews pretty well actually.
#PowerPC #G3 #Retrocomputing #VintageMac #Apple #Macintosh #PPC
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@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services
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May 25, 2026
Fedi.Video 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services
Boosting interesting videos & livestreams from the Fediverse 🍿 @ or DM me if you want to suggest a video or livestream 📨 Maintained by @FediThing 🎂 Account originally joined mas.to on 22nd November 2020
social.growyourown.services
Jan Beta makes fun videos about retro computing, gaming and tech. They often repair old systems, especially the Commodore Amiga and C64. You can follow at:
➡️ @jan_beta
Don't worry if the account looks blank, that just means no one from your server has followed it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.
You can also follow Jan's Mastodon account at @janbeta@chaos.social
#FeaturedPeerTube #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Amiga #C64 #Electronics #PeerTube
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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May 22, 2026
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
BSD.cafe and illumos Cafe "Barista", Founder and System Administrator, Unix enthusiast ( #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #Illumos and #Linux ), with a keen eye for everything happening in this world and the fascinating beings that populate it. I enjoy #music, #photography, and, of course, #technology. Most of my posts will self-destruct after 6 months. "I Solve Problems" - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/
mastodon.bsd.cafe
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@metin@graphics.social
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May 16, 2026
Metin Seven 🎨
@metin@graphics.social
🎨 Designer, sculptor 🤖 No degenerative “AI” slop 🌍 Eurasian in the Netherlands 🐣 Born in Brussels 🥕 Herbivore ⛔ Lifelong car-free 🚶 Hiker 🌳 Nemophilist 🔠 Hyperlexic polyglot ⌛ Former… 🧑💻 Blender Foundation Technical Artist 🧸 Toy designer 💬 Comic creator 📰 News cartoonist 🫖 3ds Max beta tester 🌐 Web developer 📺 TV show animator ✍️ Magazine author, editor, illustrator 💾 Demoscener 🕹️1990s game dev: Moon Child, Hoi, … #️⃣ #TeamHoi
graphics.social
Our 1992 Hoi Amiga game has been re-released, including source files! 🥳
Hoi was the predecessor to Moon Child. Prepare, it's a tough old school platformer… I mean… an exciting game challenge! 😉
The game was converted from the original 68000 CPU Assembly code to C via a soon-to-be released transpiler created by our coder.
MacOS + Windows executables:
https://bitbucket.org/rhinoid/hoi_portable/src/main/releases/
Main page with info:
https://bitbucket.org/rhinoid/hoi_portable/src/main/
#TeamHoi #GameDev #gaming #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #commodore #amiga
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