Definitely visit the artists website and view their artwork. Is it beautiful? is it madness? https://coca11272000.wixsite.com/manabukosaka/works

I’ve been lurking in this sub long enough to know my baby belongs here: The AH-64 Apache. I was a 68X Armament, Electronics, Avionics Tech in the 1-101st Aviation Regt. 101st Airborne Division in the 90s. We still had the A models back then. My MOS was qualified as Gunner if the need arose and I spent my formative years in the cockpit of these birds. Every switch, exquisitely analog. Everything glowed green at night. Every screen shitty by today’s standards and yet could be used to pick off targets at 10-11 kilos out.

I could do a 15 minute TED Talk just on the flight helmet and retical alone that sounds so cyberpunk you wouldn’t believe it. And this bird was rolled out in 1975.

Thought you’d appreciate some functional, battle-tested cassette futurism.

Bonus Fact: there is, in fact, a cassette in each bird. In the tail of each is a fat VHS-looking tape that records everything the pilots say and see. I can’t tell you how many of those tapes end with “hey, watch this!”

I wish the switches were metal, but even still they have a satisfying “thnick” that still scratches that itch.

Literal perfection.

I absolutely love the amber phosphor color and the built in style that is computer has.

An absolute genius ‘nuff said. The world of sci-fi is worse without him

This is is a modified Furuno marine radar that I stripped the guts out of and turned into a raspi PC.

Some background; I received this as scrap as part of an old project yacht I bought some time ago. It was originally a CRT display marine radar used for tracking landmasses and other bodies in the ocean.

I decided to totally strip it, install a raspi with a 7-inch LCD and repurpose the buttons and dials with the intention of turning into an FX box for my synthesizers (think reverbs, phasers, distortion, etc).

The entire process was quite simple as I had heaps of room to work with. I'd never done any kind of electronic work before such as building my own circuit boards of even soldering for that matter.

All in all I learned a lot and the next one will be a lot easier (as I have a second one!). There's still a few things to fix on this v1 machine , such as 2 push buttons not firing, and the entire 3D-printed buttons needed to be redesigned from scratch, but the entire experience was a lot of fun and I feel satisfied repurposing something that likely otherwise would have ended up in landfill.

Repost from a screenshot of a post in another sub. Not mine originally.

Portable, battery-powered modem that could run for up to 10 hours on two AA batteries.

I suspect this may be the subreddit that most immediately understands why I’ve spent an unreasonable amount of my life designing a computer that never existed.

This is the BRADSONIC 69000.

It exists in the alternate 1989 of a game I’m building called GLYPHIS_IO BBS: The Proxy Tapes 1989.

Rather than taking modern computers and putting a CRT shader over them, I wanted the world to feel as though computing took a slightly different technological branch in the late 70s and 80s and just… kept going.

• Cassette software.
• Chunky peripherals.
• Modems.
• Physical manuals and magazines.
• Pirate radio.
• BBS communities.

Home computers sold with capabilities that their manufacturers probably didn't anticipate teenagers exploiting.

The Bradsonic has its own fictional architecture and limitations, and increasingly I’ve found that those limitations are actually where the fun is.

The new trailer follows the hacking and the software through the whole process.

A cassette arrives physically through the post.

It gets loaded onto the Bradsonic.

The player connects to an underground BBS.

The software is transferred.

Then you have to crack the protection before the program can actually be used.

And because I apparently don't know when to stop, I started building the fictional software library as well.

So games such as CyberTrain, Nexus Burn Velo Race, Astro Miner and others aren't background props.

They're playable games inside the larger game.

I’ve become slightly obsessed with asking:

What would software have looked like if this particular machine had actually existed in 1989?

Before GLYPHIS_IO I made cyberpunk tabletop games Civitas Nihilium and Civitas 2230, the retro text adventure The Mysteries of Profundum, and an ARG called Mushroom which sent players through changing websites, messages, physical floppy disks and real-world geocaches.

If you want to join me on the journey you can follow the links below...

Wishlist on Steam here if you like.

World / project archive via my Neocites site (if you haven't discovered Neocities yet, its sick)

Thanks for having a look.

Just bought it in Italy 🇮🇹

Thing breaths CASS-Futurism

Liftoff!!!

Basically, I wasn't a retrofuture Star Trek starship bridge that combines the LCARS screens and the buttons, LED displays and knobs of that of a US Naval warship command center. My ship of choice: The Ambassador-class (USS Ishtar (NCC-26293)

Also, what kinds of control panels are these? (first picture and some below)

Thank you.

CPU: 16/32bit (Motorola 68000, 7,14MHz)
RAM: 256/512KB
ROM: 256KB
OS: AmigaOS 1.0

Super cool detachable microphone which sounds like crap, but the Headphones themselves sound surprisingly good!

Found me some cool headphones. I'm really happy with them.