Future project... IBM 5160 I recently got. Has a CGA, floppy, hard disk and lpt boards. Faulty power supply I need to resolve first.

This was my first PC growing up, so a lot of nostalgia fixing one up.

#IBM #8088 #Retrocomp #vintagecomputing #640k

Can someone id this thing? It's from the Soviet Union. None of the writing seems to indicate a year. I don't know how to read Cyrillic though.
:boost:

#retroComp #electronics #retroComputing #sovietEra

… also anyone have a spare 760 series HDD caddy? Mine came without it. Or at least pinout of that IBM proprietary connector so I can make my own adapter… #retrocomp #thinkpad

I found this poor IBM Thinkpad 760C without harddrive (and caddy for it) and with really bad vinegar syndrome polarizer bulge. I saw a few vids on how to remove polarizer from LCD and thought its an easy job. Boy I was wrong. Took me 2 hours to dismantle the LCD assembly, then 5 minutes to peel off polarizer, 2 hours of AC on vent mode to get rid of vinegar-acetone smell and then 4 hours of wiping off glue. Nevermore (I know I will do it again but this is what I think now) #retrocomp #thinkpad

Dica do @gwidion !
Emulador de Apple II https://emutopia.com/index.php/emulators/item/315-apple-ii/1468-octalyzer

#Apple2 #RetroComp

#retrocomp N'est jamais en retard pour se connecter au #Minitel!

okay janky beta1 of CurdleST deployed on my web site, go check it out

https://www.haxxed.com/curdlest/

play on the web, in an emulator or on real hardware

#wordle #curdle #CurdleST #retrocoding #retrocomp #retrocomputing #retrogaming #Atari #AtariST

trying to release CurdleST beta1 and pcejs just isn't cooperating

how do you crash an Atari ST this hard

its cursed i tell you

#retrocoding #retrocomp #retrocomputing #retrogaming #Atari #AtariST #curdle #CurdleST

experimenting with uploading video to youtube to lighten the load on the fediverse

fixed the sound on the SM124 SO NOW I CAN WATCH MONOCHROME DEMOS!

here's one that isn't currently emulated properly, it does some overscan tricks, and displays greyscale by drawing during the horizontal blanking interval???

have fun emulating that

doesn't look like a finished production, still pretty glitchy on real hardware 🙃​

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST

https://youtu.be/XTbOgrIFTVU

as i suspected the reason the sound wasn't working was because the speaker wire fell off 🙃​

managed to improve the brightness and focus slightly, and center it better but it sure drifts all over the place as it warms up

decided i didn't want to mess with the neck which is how you straighten out the rotation

and decided to leave the size alone, the corners are blurry enough as it is

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST

i want to adjust this SM124 but wanted to document its calibration first

common complaint was the wide borders around the display

that's just how they came

drew some squares in Degas Elite and measured it

the pinhole phone camera distorts this spectacularly but it is actually pretty dead on 8in by 5in for the displayed area, which given 640x400 resolution means it is calibrated to 80dpi exactly

yes it is supposed to be square pixels, so if you do the math on that, the Atari ST may be the first system with 16:10 widescreen 🙃​

if you've expanded your display out to 4:3 you've done it wrong

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST

eyeballing an ACSI2STM

might be able to snag one on the next paycheck

if you want to support System 7 on the Atari ST and other retrocomputing shenanigans, Ko-fi is in my bio 🙃​💸​

https://www.tindie.com/products/masteries/hard-disk-interface-for-atari-ste/

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

CRACKED SPECTRE 3.0 FOUND!

thanks OPCS

this can run System 6! with MultiFinder!

but just barely

its a bit heavy for a single floppy system with only "832k" RAM

System 7 absolutely requires a hard drive 🙃​

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

figured out how to make Aladin disks, it's a 9216 byte FAT wrapper followed by a 711k MFS filesystem

doesn't seem to accept HFS even though System 3.x was the first Mac OS with full HFS support ugh

found a copy of Red Ryder 10.3, which lets me select 19200bps and actually lets me use the extra screen space 🙃

White Knight won't run for some reason, even though it runs on System 3.2 in minivmac

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

ok silly me there IS a copy of Aladin 3.0 buried in the archive!

still based on System 3.2, with a bit more customizing

has the same software on the BOOT disk

shufflepuck doesn't crash on this version

however the keymap selector disappeared so it's stuck with a German keymap?

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

and a copy of Red Ryder, a popular terminal program in the early Macintosh years

logging on, Jackintosh edition

this might provide a (very slow) way to get files in and out of this thing, but i still can't get file transfers to work over the wifi modem 😭

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

what's on the second disk?

well this confirms it, Aladin seems to depend on patching some things to work, but they do supply nicely documented (in German) patches and a tool to apply them

go go Google lens

piecing together an English system looks to be possible

early Mac OS versioning is fragmented, Finder 5.3 went with System 3.2 and only much later retroactively labeled "System Software 1.1" by Apple, which would have been the current version in 1987

so we're a year before System 6

again if anyone has any other Aladin disks about, perhaps an English version or especially a copy of Aladin 2.1 please get them uploaded to archive.org for preservation

there's also a copy of Turbo Pascal 1.0, neat

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

i was able to mount the disk image it boots from in minivmac and copy over some small games

Alice runs!

but shufflepuck is very crashy

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #retrogaming #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac​

time for more retro computers running the wrong retro operating systems!

this is Aladin, a very Deutsches Produkt for running Mac OS on an Atari ST

normally it required a cart with Mac ROMs in it, this is the cracked v1.3 that's all i can find on the internet, if anyone has a newer version please send it my way

first run the setup program and make sure the second floppy drive is set "nicht angeschlossen" on a single drive system or it will not work

remember it is J for Ja to save the settings

all floppies must be write enabled or it will also Nicht Funktionieren for some reason

start it up and with any luck you will be Macintosh willkommen geheißen

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST​ #Apple #Macintosh #ClassicMac

for more about the development of the Atari ST, go check out the CarpDOS story and more from Atari (and later Apple!) developer Landon Dyer's blog:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200219014622/http://www.dadhacker.com:80/blog/?p=995

https://web.archive.org/web/20200108214542/http://dadhacker.com:80/blog/?p=1000

https://web.archive.org/web/20180816195949/http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1383

#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa