My PCjr forum is basically getting DDoS'ed by IP addresses that point back to Tencent. It looks like AI bots scraping everything.

I got tired of playing whack-a-mole and I restricted access to the site for anonymous users. The instructions for joining now have a blurb about the Tiananmen Square massacre just in the case the great firewall can help me. And I'm aggressively blocking large subnets.

Does anybody have good tools for blocking by ASN ?

#retrocomputing

I don’t usually promote personal projects here, but I’ll give it a try.
Meet Tocaia, a minimalist, cross-platform TUI Gopher client written in C89 for POSIX systems.
It even supports Haiku.
Pull requests and bug reports are welcome! =)
https://github.com/manipuladordedados/tocaia

#gopher #TUI #haikuos #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #smolweb #retrocomputing #programming

The two original StrongARM RiscPCs used to port Slackware to ARM over 20 years ago are finally reunited!

🖥️🛠️ CMOS battery swap & boot config tweaks next—then I’ll try to boot the 22-year-old dev instance. Pure nostalgia.

https://youtu.be/5uEJ0eYyhl0

#retrocomputing #slackware #linux #opensource

Did you know that there were #infocom novels published, matching the games?
#interactivefiction #retrocomputing #planetfall #zork

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Three vintage Infocom books: Enchanter, Planetfall and The Zork Chronicles

But of course it can.

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Picture of two unnamed FreeBSD developers playing Doom. One on real period-correct hardware, the other running #GZDoom on a MacBook.

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Video showing a Roland SoundCanvas SC55mkII and an MT32 playing the Doom game music. Sound effects are from the Gravis Ultrasound.

Let's pretend it's 2001 again.
#linux #opensuse #civctp #retrocomputing #86box #lokigames

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A vintage SuSE Linux desktop running KDE inside an 86box emulator. The Linux OS is running the game Civilization Call To Power.

This is the proper use of an old low-end printer that uses thermal fax paper on a roll.

#retrocomputing

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A scene from The Blues Brothers printed on an IBM 5181 thermal printer.

Now THIS is how I like it. 86Box 5.0 has quickly taken over my existing virtual machines without any issues. Everything seems to be working fine and its new VM manager is looking really nice!

P. S.: First impression: PS/2 mouse support feels so much smoother than before!

86Box 5.0: https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases/tag/v5.0
ROM repository: https://github.com/86Box/roms

#86Box #Emulation #PCGaming #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Windows #Microsoft #MSDOS #DOS #VirtualMachine

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86Box upgraded to version 5.0. Looking good!

I spent a portion of my day yesterday at the Interim Computer Museum (https://icm.museum/) and I was just blown away by it. Not just at the artifacts that Stephen is preserving, but at the dedication and personal resources he is putting into it. It's not just a passion project; he is preserving computing history here.

#retrocomputing #icm

Today I started integrating @benhencke|s MicroModSynth into #DOjS.

So far you can dynamically create synthesizers with a given number of voices and nodes and it plays the example from the GitHub repo fine on DOSBox.

Next step: come up with a nice #JavaScript interface to create voices and nodes and play some notes...

https://github.com/simap/MicroModSynth

#MSDOS #RetroComputing #RetroDevelopment

Rate my battlestation!

This is a Sony Anycast Station AWS-G500HD from 2007. It's essentially a Sony luggable PIII 933Mhz PC that runs Linux 2.4.20 with a ton of FPGAs to do the heavy lifting of a video switcher. Plus glorious physical buttons, faders, dials, and removable keyboard. Oh, and a jog wheel.

#RetroComputing

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A Sony laptop-style computer cosplaying as a video production switcher with keyboard, buttons, sliders, and dials on the bottom and a LCD on the top showing several windows of different video sources including "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, Look Around You: Maths, a Lisa sales pitch video, and a rotating cube.

Expanded the list of #MSDOS development resources with suggestions from the community...

#RetroDev #RetroComputing #RetroDevelopment #DOS

I added more compiler and a treasure trove of documentation for #MSDOS programming!

#RetroDev #RetroComputing #RetroDevelopment #DOS

Es hat mich tatsächlich über ein Jahr beschäftigt, aber ab sofort ist das IBM Betriebssystem PC DOS 2000 mit vollständigem, deutschem Handbuch komplett im Internet Archive abrufbar. Das sind insgesamt 686 Seiten in 300dpi, sauber gescannt und digital restauriert.

Bei PC DOS 2000 handelte es sich um die letzte offizielle Vollversion von DOS aus dem Jahre 1998, bereits mit sämtlichen Y2K Updates. Voll kompatibel zu Windows 3.x und Spielen für MS-DOS!

Schachtel: https://archive.org/details/pcdos_2000_de_box
Disketten: https://archive.org/details/pcdos_2000_de
CD-ROM: https://archive.org/details/pcdos_2000_de_cdrom
Handbuch: https://archive.org/details/pcdos_2000_de_handbuch

Viel Spaß!

#RetroComputing #DOSGaming #DOSGames #RetroGaming #MSDOS #PCDOS #IBM #Manual #Handbuch #Microsoft #Disketten #KryoFlux

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Die deutsche Schachtel von PC DOS 2000, jetzt verfügbar im Internet Archive.

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Das deutsche Handbuch von PC DOS 2000, jetzt verfügbar im Internet Archive.

Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4 via @lproven https://lobste.rs/s/1fduyi #retrocomputing
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/06/jennys-daily-drivers-freedos-1-4/

My newest piece of networking gear - It has a collision light and a load meter!

#retrocomputing

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CentreCOM MR820TR Ethernet hub

Real computers use coaxial cable!

No seriously, I finally decided to try ThinNet out. I've used computers with it before but I never had to wire it myself. It was refreshingly simple.

The computer is a PS/2 Model 25 with a 3Com Ethernet card. The other end of the wire goes to a CentreCOM Ethernet hub which also has a ThinNet connector in addition to the twisted pair connectors.

#retrocomputing

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3Com ISA network card on a PS/2 Model 25 connected to 10Base2 Ethernet (ThinNet/CheaperNet)

"Squirrel confusion face" - that look on your face when you discover a stash of things you previously purchased after forgetting about them, purchasing another one, and then trying to file it away.

#retrocomputing

«Computers don’t think» - Still a valid point. #RetroComputing #IBM #Mainframe

https://youtu.be/q-gpM-KfVng?si=cMcZ98DVF2nwxaeN

Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250730080301 #openbsd #cde #commondesktopenvironment #x #xwindows #desktop #retrocomputing #freesoftware #libresoftware #ports #packages