Recent content by bifo86

Wow, that's one of the oldest Macs I've ever seen that wasn't sun-baked and discolored. That bad boy is gonna make someone really happy.

Honestly I'm only worried about shipping it because I shipped a blackface ADAT machine via UPS and someone basically threw it out of the truck and drove over it several times. We're all vintage computer enthusiasts and surely everyone has heard about shipping nightmares. I left this one with...

This is a two owner Kaypro II. I inherited it almost thirty years ago. Comes with a CPM boot disk and a disk with some games. I had to replace the original phone-style jack on the keyboard but it works perfectly, and the paint is unmarked, the part was purchased from Digikey and matched the...

Rogue was certainly commercialized. So were Dungeon (Zork), Adventure and Empire (though that was more of a VMS game). Lots of games of the 90s were pioneered on, inspired by, or converted from hazy memories of unix games as well.

'Back in the day' for me was late 90's/early 00's, so I played several of the Loki ports like Civ:CTP, Alpha Centauri, SimCity 3000, Unreal Tournament, Soldier of Fortune and HOMM3. I think most of the games are on Archive.org, and a few years ago I got Alpha Centauri and Civ:CTP running again...

Nope, but I've replaced nearly a dozen in various synthesizers and samplers from the 80s with fresh ones. Glad I've yet to find a VARTA in any old instruments.

I had a 32mb IPX for a while in the late 90s, absolutely complete system with external Sun CD drive (with caddy) and a 9.1gb external hdd, plus a beautiful 19" Trinitron CRT. I moved it on when I figured I couldn't do much with it and have regretted it ever since. Such a great little form...

For those who don't know: Music Technology review Sound on Sound review The C1 was a 286 laptop with a LOT of built in MIDI ports. 8 MIDI outs, 2 MIDI ins, 5-pin DIN all the way. Few were sold because it was such a specialized computer and very expensive. I tracked one down a number of years...

it is REALLY worth pointing out that IF YOU WANT TO BUILD A Z80 SBC THE PARTS ARE AVAILABLE NEW. I have no problem ordering from china but some of the biggest frustrations I've had in building is buying parts from there that don't work for whatever reason. The entire Z80 set of chips that are...

I've built a few of the Retrobrew designs, as a beginner I think the Easy Z80 is, well, the easiest and most capable. All parts are thru-hole and can be purchased new from Mouser/Digikey/etc. https://github.com/skiselev/easy_z80

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/sdp/d/san-rafael-vintage-gaming-pc-case/7660766582.html

https://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/sys/d/snohomish-sgi-indigo-lot/7657829277.html SGI Indigo Lot - $5,000 (Snohomish) SGI Indigo Machines: (14) CPUs (R3000, R4000, R4400) Graphics (Entry, GR2-XZ, XS24, ELAN) CPUS have good skins, doors, PSUs, and drives/sleds. Keyboards, Mice, Cables...

I really enjoy throwing together an MTS installation on an instance of Hercules every once in a while. It's a very comfortable system for people used to PC/Workstation operating systems. https://try-mts.com/why-try-mts/

I'm also interested if Plasma passes on it.

I have SimH on a Manjaro install on my Pinebook Pro, it's in the Pacman repository. To install it you'd just need to jump into terminal and run sudo pacman -Syu simh There's also a fork if you feel comfortable building it yourself (quite easy to do) with many more simulators. Not necessary if...