Stumbled across my old NeXT "floptical" disc while looking through old boxes at the office! I've been wondering where this had gone for a few decades now: I have archives of most of my files from 1992 (when we founded Omni) through the present, but this was where I had archived my active files for several of the years prior.

Now to see if any of our NeXT cubes still has a working magneto-optical drive that can read this data…

[2025-07-26 02:08:03]: wesc just logged into node 1 with the EInstEIn-rOsEn brIdgE theme #retrocomputing #bbs #sysop #mysticbbs #tqwNet

[2025-07-26 02:07:00]: wesc has just registered to use the BBS #retrocomputing #bbs #newuser #mysticbbs #tqwNet

[2025-07-26 02:00:02]: MRC Meatup: thE grAvY trAIn - at 21:00 BST this sAtUrdAY, Jul 26th 2025 #retrocomputing #mrc #gravytrain #bbs #sysop #mysticbbs #tqwNet

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: Frontconcept bY Idle! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio

does your website load and render on windows 98? #retrozilla #retrocomputing https://maple.pet

After a clean reinstall, first stop: Flathub.
Installing all my favorite 8-bit computer emulators.
Ready to relive the golden era of retro gaming on Linux! #LinuxGaming #Flathub #RetroComputing #Linux

Wait wait wait, there is an embedded PC standard with AGP? **gasp**

I've upgraded to the newest, fanciest version of Mastodon for Apple II (by @colin_mcmillen), along with the accompanying update to surl-server. My IIgs has been sitting unused for a few months as I sorted out a lot of things in the office and dealt with the summer chaos. But it deserves to be up and running here in the corner, so I've tidied up its table and reconnected all the many cables.

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Who remembers making "fun names" in #Quake? I just uploaded "PM's Cooler Namebuilder" to archive.org. I haven't been able to find the original zip file anywhere, but I had the binary handy so decided I'd better get it preserved.

https://archive.org/details/pms-cooler-namebuilder-v1.3

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: Shadow Movements#12 bY Boo! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio

Finally got my hands on one of these babys, wanted one for so long, gorgeous #Acorn #Electron #RetroComputing

Made an OS/2 Warp 3-ish theme for my X11 window manager and finally added support for showing application icons in the top left corner.

Unfocused windows have a slightly darker border (unlike in OS/2), which helps me identify which window has focus.

(The WM is keyboard-driven only, hence I left out the minimize/maximize buttons in the right corner.)

#OS2

(Is X11 #RetroComputing yet?)

I really need to find an excuse to bring my A500 (w/ TF536) out of storage more, if only just to admire the black case from A1200.net, they do such a good job with their cases. At some point I need to do the keypads too, but I kind of like the white on black. For Amiga owners with multiple machines, do you have specific tasks you like to do with each, or do you just have one as your primary?

Aunque el primer ordenador que toqué fue un Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k, mi primer ordenador propio fue esta maravilla, el MSX Canon V-20 y aún lo conservo ¿Cuál fue vuestro primer ordenador?