Susan Kare: artist and graphical user interface pioneer A #WomensHistoryMonth thread

A new Mac SE/30 logic board to replace battery/cap leakage damaged boards

look it’s media archaeology

Old school overclocking: Quake on a 180Mhz 486 youtu.be/qPRSHI4JoWI

Some #zx81 #retrocomputer adverts from around 1982.

Hi, I'm looking for $500 to buy a SVHS Deck to digitize the fansubs in this collection. DM me if you want to help with that.

Today is publication day! Welcome to the world, Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality!!! It seems appropriate that the book I finished in Lockdown #1 is officially published in Lockdown #6. Here's a shelfie. 😂🥂🍷🥃 Get yours at: mitpress.mit.edu/books/homebrew…

Retro gaming YouTuber Karl Jobst has published a deep dive into the shady business of retro video game grading and high-value auctions. It's a great piece of reporting. Awesome work Karl! youtu.be/rvLFEh7V18A

We got our start programming a shop demo ZX81. "Uncle" Clive became a hero to millions. Today we say goodbye to a legend.

Lmao. Friend at Facebook confirmed they ended up bringing in a guy with an angle grinder to get access to the server cage

*Pls share w potential applicants* 2 PhD scholarships in digital media heritage are available for students to undertake research in Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology. These provide tuition & a 3 year stipend. Open to Australian and NZ citizens with first class Honours or research Masters.

Happy 28th birthday DOOM. Dec 10, 1993. I left a piece of my soul in DOOM, and it's a great place for it to be (and it matches my head in DOOM II, I suppose). We poured everything we had into it, and I can't begin to express how grateful I am to the DOOM community for everything.

We are hosting Born Digital Cultural Heritage, a free online conference, 16-18 Feb 2022, in conjunction with partners ACMI & AARNet Australia. Conference program & speakers: playitagainproject.com/conference Register at ow.ly/Cc2j50HG56w #gamehistory #digitalpreservation #digipres

With a week out from the con, we wanted to shout out to all our sponsors! 💸 We wouldn't be able to keep tickets cheap and still put on a ✨sparkly show✨without their help - and they really just do it for the renown, acclaim, and warm fuzzies

I think she misunderstood. They're explaining they had to download the pizza. File. Transfer. Protocol!

NZ Retro Magazine is New Zealand's own homegrown retro gaming magazine created by Kiwi legend Karl "After" Burnett (aka "Nick from Shortland Street.") Issue 3 has just been released and it looks great. Available in both print and digital versions. nzretro.com

Ringo-8 is a 64x48 Graphics Library For ZX Spectrum 128KB based on my render engine from Ringo I hope someone will find it useful :) Have fun! github.com/DenisGrachev/R… See ya!

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So, 28 years ago (29 Jan 1996) this happened. This is George Broussard pointing at my computer that is uploading the shareware version of Duke Nukem 3D to Software Creations for the first time. That was my bag then, uploading shareware episodes of games to Software Creations.