@theoasisbbs This might sound silly, but I'm really hopeful that #Commodore might eventually make a new #microcomputer platform focusing on being intentionally simple. Perhaps a novel 16-bit architecture implemented in FPGA (or maybe something "truer" like ASIC!), designed to be relatively simple to program in a #lowlevel language. Sounds like a dream to me.

https://www.wacoca.com/games/1305722/ 「AtomMan G7 Pro」 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop 搭載、高性能ゲーミングミニPC 登場！ #「AtomManG7Pro」GeForceRTX5070Laptop搭載、高性能ゲーミングミニPC登場！ ##GAMING #DreamNews #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #MICROCOMPUTER（HK）TECHLIMITED #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ドリームニュース #ニュースリリース #プレスリリース #代行 #配信

Oh wow, a kit for a #microcomputer from the *1980s* 🚀—because nothing screams cutting-edge #tech like reviving ancient #relics while pretending to be pioneers of the #digital stone-age. 🔧🌪️ Truly revolutionary stuff, folks; next, they’ll tell us how the wheel was a #retro hipster invention too. 🛞💾
https://sunrise-ev.com/z80.htm #1980s #innovation #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

E&L MMD-1 Mini-Micro Designer Restoration

#electronics #Intel8080 #8080microcomputer #microcomputer #computer #microcontroller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCAp3K7yTlQ&list=PL-_93BVApb5_ITRdT7BjqpjQfCqc58O-g&index=1
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• Mikrodenetleyici Programlama: https://www.youtube.com/@aslankemalaslan/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=7

Mein Raspberry 5 ist nach dem Betriebssystemupdate (#dietpi) und abschliessendem Reboot nicht wieder hochgefahren!
habe dann in der config den HDMI output aktiviert (normalerweise läuft er headless)
Danach bootet er wieder!?!??
Die Erleichterung war groß - aber das kann doch nicht die Ursache sein...
#microcomputer #raspberrypi #dietpi #nextcloud

@r @fluffykittycat @flower the only reason noone takes an #RP2040 and tries to build a new #Retro-Style #Microcomputer with it is because it's way more effort and hassle than the $5 (/ $1 / $10) discount compared to a #Pi0W (/ #Pi0 / #Pi0W2) - which already come with USB, HDMI & microSD - is worth it.

Uploaded a two-player Pong clone in a TRS-80 emulator. Plays with the A,Z and O,L keys... not very well, but it's a 50 line BASIC program so you get what you get.

#gameDev #devLog #microComputer #TRS80 #retroComputer

https://basic-code.bearblog.dev/trs-80-pong80bas/

“Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the #MOS #6502 processor used in many early #microcomputers.

As the software colossus explained in a Wednesday post, Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote the company’s first product, BASIC for the #Altair8800 #microcomputer and the #Intel8080 #processor that powered it, in 1975.

A year later Gates and Ric Weiland, Microsoft’s second employee, ported Microsoft #BASIC to the #6502Processor.

In 1977, #CommodoreComputer licensed it for $25,000 and used #Microsoft #BASIC in its #PET, #VIC20, and #Commodore64 machines.”

source code <https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm> (6,955 lines)

#software / #assembly / #KLOC / #MITLicense <https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/microsoft_open_sources_6502_basic/>

@ngate

“Bug-riddled” isn't really fair. As far as 1981 #microcomputer operating systems go, #MSDOS itself was quite solid and did its job well.

Problem is that its job didn't involve preventing buggy applications from scribbling on whatever memory they cared to scribble on, and most of them were written in assembly and/or C, which had very few safety features. System crashes were therefore common and sometimes catastrophic.

But, again, 1981. This was typical back then.

#retrocomputing

Un salto nel passato di 40 anni: sfogliamo la mitica rivista MC microcomputer del luglio/agosto 1985 selezionando alcuni articoli e recuperando (grazie a Ready64) un libro con 100 programmi in BASIC per il Commodore 64. #retrocomputer #commodore64 #microcomputer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPvFdHjLW3U

📬 Emulatoren im August 2025 für Homecomputer und Spielkonsolen
#WarezListen #Emulator #Homecomputer #Microcomputer #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Spielkonsole https://sc.tarnkappe.info/6fa4f3

I just watched one of my favorite childhood movies D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088979/
It's about a little boy that has a #Microcomputer for a Brain🧠
Every kid wanted to fly the SR-71 Blackbird😁 back then, I know I wanted to.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIHuman #SR71

1985

“BASIC was a fine tool to learn programming with. But #programs in it occupied far too much of the limited working #memory of a #microcomputer, and it was horribly slow.

The way to get anything ambitious done was to write the program directly in the language #BASIC translated into: #assembly code, only one layer up from the #silicon.

Suddenly, you were responsible for the entire flow of very simple commands that allowed the computer to function.”

40 years ago, Elite was created and released by #IanBell and #DavidBraben.

#Software / #Elite / #programming / #Cambridge / #computing / #BBCMicro <https://theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weekend>

Basic guide to address decoding for I/O devices on #homebrew #computers. Part of a series based around my #6502 #Microcomputer.

https://medium.com/machina-speculatrix/simple-i-o-address-decoding-for-your-homebrew-computer-183b3f7a42ce

#computing #electronics #maker #8bit

I always thought that a CB2 microcomputer ( http://cb2.qrp.gr/ ) would be nice to try make but they're not sold any more. Any thoughts for simple kit computers like it that are affordable? (sub £30) #kit #microcomputer #computer #hardware

🎉 Oh joy, another promise of a "revolutionary" microcomputer! 💻🚀 Because what the world really needs is a retro toy that trades functionality for #nostalgia and calls it innovation. 🙄 Can't wait to see this relic compete with modern tech in the year 2025... or maybe just in someone's basement collection. 🤦‍♂️
https://www.endbasic.dev/2025/06/unveiling-the-endbox.html #microcomputer #techinnovation #retrotoys #basementcollection #HackerNews #ngated

Unveiling the EndBOX – A microcomputer prototype for EndBASIC

https://www.endbasic.dev/2025/06/unveiling-the-endbox.html

#HackerNews #EndBOX #Microcomputer #EndBASIC #Prototype #TechInnovation #HackerNews

Oh, I love this one:

"Comparing #FORTH to #BASIC is like comparing a Gothic cathedral to a mud hut." - Steve Vickers

( Vickers is one of the fathers of the legendary #JupiterAce #microcomputer )

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2012/09/21/jupiter_cantab_jupiter_ace_is_30_years_old/?page=3