← Feed

Posts

• Post #4249671

  A DIY minimal computer in just 57 TTL chips -- no CPU package, no GPU! Those 57 chips implement CPU, IO *and* VGA on one board! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhD6U30-PzE #retrocomputing #homebrew

• Post #4249670

  RE: https://oldbytes.space/@8bitgames/117000099431696966 This should have been the first thing stated: “I use Anthropic's Claude Code as a coding agent”. Extremely disappointed; another retro developer / project I won’t speak of again. #retrogaming #retrocomputing

• Post #4249669

  I haven't done small-screen (smartphone) support yet, but here you go: check out my ebook HTML reader interface -- all #HTML + #CSS, no #JavaScript! (and definitely no Ai) https://camendesign.com/writing/nomad/online.html #worldglass #webdev #ebook #book

• Post #4249668

  Broken Sword series is mega discounted right now on #GoG. No idea why, but you can get the BS1 Director's Cut and BS2 remaster for £0.49 ea! https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20260727_revolution_publisher_sale #retrogaming #brokensword #pointandclick #adventuregames

• Post #4111501

  Staring down the barrel of "nobody knows how to do anything without #JavaScript any more". All I want to do is make my #ebook readable in a web-browser. Do I have to make _everything_ myself!? No fancy UI-styling yet but there's nothing stopping me providing widgets for changing light/dark theme, colours, fonts, line-spacing -- you name it -- no JavaScript needed. Nothing to install, no Python script, no build system; it's just an #HTML + #CSS file. WHY IS THIS A LOST ART!??...

• Post #4067170

  RE: https://vt.social/@lina/116975435851200366 I am announcing today that all recorded music and film is now my personal property to do with as I please. Content owners may opt-out of this by mailing me a floppy disk containing the words "I do not consent" in a WordPerfect 4.1 for Amiga file at an address to be published later. #codetheft #github #huggingface

• Post #3832331

  It's 2026 -- DOES YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED WINDOW MANAGER CAST SHADOWS ACCURATELY?? 1996 for comparison. #psion #wayland #linux #retrocomputing

• Post #3733221

  The time period the story is set in is only 2'000 years after the first civilisations had formed, but given that they live in a desert world inside an hour-glass the size of Earth, it's fair to assume they'll have computers in the distant future (plenty of silicon available), and when they do, there will be #Encarta! Just a quick mockup of a website for my book based on Encarta 96 since making an encyclopedia of the story world is something I'm considering. 5KB of HTML+#CSS, no...

• Post #3561454

  Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!". It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds? #encarta #90s #retrocomputing

• Post #3446346

  I'm probably only 1 of maybe 3 people in the world writing software for this platform at the moment #worldglass #writerdeck #psion #retrocomputing #programming

• Post #3446345

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6PmkcNxu2U #retrogaming #amiga #retrocomputing #homebrew

• Post #3405627

  HTTP 371: Goose Not Valued

• Post #3010585

  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wolfpld/116654210214292738 I’m begging — anybody with enough publicity to focus the community into one place — hard fork #VSCode and begin removing the slop. Expecting users of the most popular IDE in the world to all disperse Tower of Babel style to other editors is not realistic. They should at least have an off-ramp, if nothing else. VSCodium is not a solution -- a starting point, maybe -- because cleaning up Microslops new slop every month is not a deve...

• Post #3010584

  The Chasm: The Rift remaster has finally been discounted to a reasonable price! This is one of the more interesting classic FPSes; an unusual combination of Wolfenstein3D meets Quake. It's short, very 90's Eurojank, but it'll stick with you, like it has to me for 30 years. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2061230/Chasm_The_Rift/ See Civvie's video if you need more convincing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5baDD6lydh8 #gaming #retrogaming #fps

• Post #3010583

  RE: https://xoxo.zone/@scruss/116660712349965648 There are programming fonts and then there are PROGRAMMING FONTS

• Post #3010581

  Coining the term "Dumb-book" | "Dumbbook" | "Dumbook" -- here and now -- to refer to specifically a laptop-like device that, like the "dumbphone", is a mostly-offline, single or narrow-purpose device, e.g. a #writerdeck Not to be confused with a #cyberdeck, which is a general-purpose device; the delineating factor that separates a notebook from a dumbbook being a fully-featured web browser. If it runs Chrome, it *cannot* be...

• Post #3010580

  The second manuscript update has been released: https://www.patreon.com/posts/may-2026-159709132 Another 43 pages; 150 pages over the free preview Plus another 10'000 word developer diary (download the free PDF/ePub here! https://camendesign.com/nomad) #worldglass #writing #books #ebook #writingcommunity #fiction #fantasy

• Post #2059778

  I got my first Patreon! I'm so overwhelmed I could cry; it's the first money (£1) from something I've made in my life 😢 That anybody would even consider paying for something I made has been a never-ending doubt hanging over me #worldglass

• Post #2059775

  Oh neat, an 8-bit demake! > All code was ported using AI, the initial conversion by GPT Codex, and then hundreds of iterations of improvements by Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet. Anyway, moving on :| #retrogaming #retrocomputing

• Post #2059772

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr/116516180518792080 Tying encryption to identity was one of the 'Web's biggest mistakes #webdev

• Post #2059768

  It really is beyond time for the #vscode hard fork. #programming #opensource #foss #microsoft #noai

• Post #2038770

  "This ISA VGA card is slightly faster than other VGA cards, but the BIOS has i386-specific instructions in it, so I hacked the BIOS so that I can run my 100% rewritten in assembly-language 16-bit real-mode 8086 DOOM port on my 286 machine..." https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/140155-realdoom-doom-ported-to-16-bit-real-mode/?page=10&tab=comments#comment-3019156 #RealDOOM is a port of DOOM optimised for 16-bit DOS. It can achieve 486-level framerates on a 386 and about 10fps ev...

• Post #1884127

  Learn how to program an 8-bit computer. It’s the biggest f*ck you to AI bros and their slop; you will learn more about computers than you ever will from gluing frameworks together, and lastly it will come with no responsibility whatsoever. Stop contributing #JavaScript and #Python knowledge to the slop vendors. Microsoft, Google, Apple et al can’t make money off of 6502 or Z80 code. More Commodore 64 games existing is not going to contribute to murder drones shooting kids. #javascript #python...

• Post #1606971

  🥹 https://camendesign.com/nomad #worldglass #writing #fiction #writersofmastodon

• Post #1606970

  #AgeVerification in #Linux is 100% a downstream issue. Any upstream project that is implementing this without pushback should make you question how quick and willing they will be to add the _next_ verification. Gender? Ethnicity?

• Post #1606969

  I reached 40'000 words in my book today T__T; a little under a month after reaching 20'000 words. I'm shocked. The words just fell out of me today. I have a 60 page sample #ebook available in ePub and PDF: https://camendesign.com/nomad You'll know if it's your kind of book by the first page, but if you read it and want more, there's another 90 pages (so far) available via Patreon: https://patreon.com/KrocCamen where I will be putting out monthly u...

• Post #1606965

  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116416809076675321 #solarpunk

• Post #1606964

  The #Psion is out of action for a bit, a crack on the CF door; I can’t afford for this to break 😢

• Post #1606962

  Those who don’t remember Digg are doomed to repeat it

• Post #1606961

  The Mayans had some oddly-specific demon lords lol! > Ahalmez ("Sweepings Demon") and Ahaltocob ("Stabbing Demon"), who hide in the unswept areas of people's houses and stab them to death; and Xic ("Wing") and Patan ("Packstrap"), who cause people to die coughing up blood while out walking on a road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba#Inhabitants