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Archivist of archaic games.
Archeologist of ancient computers.
Grumbles in FOSS.
A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core.

In war against extiction.

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I post in Italian and English.
This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Joined April 08, 2026
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Jul 27, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Replying to @raster@retro-gaiden.com
At least there is a freebsd port. https://www.freshports.org/www/waterfox #foss #firefox #waterfox #browser #freebsd
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Jul 27, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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I'm trying @Waterfox@mastodon.social as browser from while, indeed is lighter as resources and the scrolling is, by default, a lot of smoother than other forks of Firefox I tried. Nice that includes also an adblock, that I pair with another privacy extension. The only minus, it lacks of .deb packages, and I have to resort on flatpacks. Well nothing is perfect, I guess. #foss #firefox #waterfox #browser
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Jul 15, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Replying to @witchgirls@woof.tech
@witchgirls@woof.tech @chronohart@tech.lgbt I think OpenBSD has a strict no-LLM policy for a matter of code cleaning. FreeBSD doesn't state yet, as far I know, a clear policy, but they are keen to tolerate AI use for side tasks like debugging and translation (parts not critical for the system, and they lack of manpower here) and leave the real programming to humans. Myself, I'm not troubled by AI as tech, but from the details in the middle (like, where comes the database?)
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Jun 02, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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The new Starfox 2 seems to me mostly (or just?) a remaster of Starfox 64, with the identical gameplay of the predecessor.
I think is more for those who have a Switch 2, but have not the N64 game and doesn't go for emulation.
I found more interesting the Airwing level in Starfox Adventures in comparison, it was a different level.

https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=vylA-5Jv4ag

#starfox #nintendo #nintendoswitch2 #consolle #videogame #videogames #switch2

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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · May 03, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Replying to @Oregon_Pacifist@retro-gaiden.com
@Oregon_Pacifist@retro-gaiden.com Microsoft and Nintendo today are both cooked. Microsoft is able only to screan AIIIII against walls, and Nintendo is drowing in the spoiled milk of the Wii and Switch 2. But while MS can live of cloud for the next two decades, Nintendo is surviving of clever gimmicks from the Wii, and the day they are going to run out of these is the one that is going to burn them for good. That the switch 2 is going less than hoped should tell something.
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Apr 29, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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The C128 VDC is a funny thing. Is a commodore clone of a CGA pc card, and has its own internal memory, that also the main machine "doesn't see" and is served only by the VDC chip itself.
This memory can also be expanded on any C128 with appropriate kit. With the max expansion it can reach some crazy resolution, up to 800x600 monocrome in some demo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95wK7FS5NY

#c128 #commodore #retrocomputing #retrogaming

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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Apr 26, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Replying to @flexion@oldbytes.space
@flexion@oldbytes.space Smooth. 🥰 Had you need patch something in the sources, like for GTA3?
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Apr 26, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Replying to @Kroc@oldbytes.space
@Kroc I'm not against new tech, otherwise I would never poked my nose into computers when they were just a niche thing decades ago. I'm against human stupidity that believes machines do miracles instead to being just dumb tools.
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Apr 25, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Replying to @flexion@oldbytes.space
@flexion@oldbytes.space uh... could you record a short snippet and show the performance? I love see how this stuff work on different platform/hardware. It's not of course the heaviest sims you could run (already it played well on a plain A500) but still.
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Apr 25, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Replying to @karadoc@aus.social
@karadoc@aus.social @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Yes usually soundcards at the time mounted the Gameport.
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Apr 25, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Replying to @Froogal@derg.social
@Froogal@derg.social For now I see the reaction isn't uniform. Some distros are pretty open to uniform, and these are mostly the corporate driven like Ubuntu and Red Hat, while other projects or declared their stand against, or they are more into "let's see what happens". Also the issue in US is still open, like Colorado has amended to exempt open source project from their bill. But still, if really FOSS would stand for users, I would like something more from some player than "let's hope".
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Apr 24, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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A browser online tool for converting pictures with palettes of various retro computers and consolles.

https://8bitworkshop.com/dithertron/#sys=c64.multi&image=seurat.jpg

#retrocomputing #c64 #zxspectrum #amiga #appleII #genesis #megadrive #commodore #nes #nintendo #cga #vga #ega #nes #snes #atari #amstrad #pcengine #virtualboy #intellivision #gameboy #gamegear #neogeopocketcolor

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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Apr 21, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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Replying to @fdroidorg@floss.social
@fdroidorg @eighthave What exactly are the plans of Google for backtrack the openess of their system? It is what made it widespread. Once you set a strategy for a product, is hard alter the course successfully.
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Raster @raster@retro-gaiden.com · Apr 14, 2026
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@raster@retro-gaiden.com

Archivist of archaic games. Archeologist of ancient computers. Grumbles in FOSS. A fuffly feathered dinosaur down to the core. In war against extiction. *** I post in Italian and English. This account is mostly for English posts, Italian account is linked below.

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I wonder if there are demos for C128 that use the build-in Z80 processor, as main or coprocessor. There are some good stuff for the VDC, but I didn't found nothing yet for the Zilog.
I think nobody really tried to use it, or maybe is so rare that I didn't got the chance to find one.

#c128 #commodore #retrocomputing

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