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Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Today GitHub’s official Twitter account asked the ultimate geek-friendly question. “You never forget your first computer. What was yours?”
And within 10 hours they’d gotten 2,700 responses.
Commodore 64… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Computer?
For those of us with penchant for older technology, there’s something special about operating with older hardware. Whether it’s a decades-old camera, a vintage keyboard, or a home computer from …read more Continue reading Retrocomputing, Time To Hang Up The Original Hardware?
With the rise of the gamepad courtesy of several generations of game consoles, the joystick has become an almost forgotten peripheral, sidelined into the world of flight simulators with its …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: A Joystick Like They Used To Make
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes:
AmiKit is a compilation of pre-installed and pre-configured Amiga programs running emulated on Windows, macOS, and Linux (as well as running on classic 68K Amigas expanded with a Vampire upgrade card).
Be… Continue reading ‘Turn an Old PC Into a High-End Amiga with AmiKit’
Mike Bouma writes: Despite being expensive and having been sold out for quite some time at the main Amiga Dealers, two days after Linus Torvalds’ release of Linux 5.18, Christian “xeno74” Zigotzky made the latest PPC kernel available for the AmigaOne X… Continue reading AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: With the release of the A500 mini (which also supports A1200 games) and its side loading feature you may be interested to get started with Amiga Retro games development. This is why I collected some recent A… Continue reading How to Write Your Own Games – for the Amiga
Mike Bouma writes: I just bought the A500 Mini here in the Netherlands. The first reviews are now available. The Guardian gives the device a 4 out of 5 score in their review: “The A500 is a robust piece of tech nostalgia that will give veteran fans man… Continue reading First Reviews of the A500 Mini
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Thirty five years after Andy Warhol’s death, the NY Times reports on a new wave of Warhol-Mania as the famed pop artist is currently the subject of a Netflix documentary series (The Andy Warhol Diaries), an exhi… Continue reading What Andy Warhol Was Really Thinking on Commodore’s Amiga Demo Day
Longtime Slashdot reader Mike Bouma writes: Retro Recipes LLC has previewed prototype serial #01 of the “A500 mini” Amiga retro console on YouTube. The console comes with 25 preinstalled games including Worms: The Director’s Cut, Simon the Sorcerer, Th… Continue reading Exclusive First ‘The A500 Mini’ Prototype Playtest
There was a time when high-performance disk drives used SCSI — the Small Computer System Interface — and everything else was kid stuff. Now, advanced forms of SCSI are still …read more Continue reading The Return of SCSI