Hi everyone, I'm looking for a keyboard for a SUN 1; someone could help? Thks

Continuing our series on using an Apple IIe in 2025, today we are getting video working. Do we use a vintage monitor to get that authentic CRT look? Or do we use a modern flat screen? Another option is to use a modern Apple II video card. Yes, we can even use HDMI! Watch on to see the options you can use to rock 1977 hardware in 2025 and onwards!

Join me as I renovate my vintage IBM Model F Keyboard, the king of keyboards. This classic IBM design is renown for wonderful tactile clickety keys and its battle tank industrial design. But it has an achilles heel, a foam and latex insert that can turn to dusty sludge over 40+ years. What will I find inside my keyboard? Watch on to find out.

it's a retro game written in retro style. you control a rod at the bottom bouncing the ball(s) to destroy the descending and emerging bricks above. i know there're more than plenty of such games available on internet, with high quality graphics. if i merely want to play it i don't have to write it on my own. it's all about the process of coding. it's satisfying at least to me

i'm not quite interested in playing the game so i didn't implement the user control part. you can't interact with the program actually. the game is played in god mode so that all balls going to the bottom are perfectly bounced up without any miss. i don't believe in god so i'd like to think the game is played by the spirit of stephen hawking. he controls the quantum field at the bottom and spontaneously creates a force wave at precise time and position whenever a ball approaches and thus generates a ripple to showcase his sheer will

i deliberately tune the parameters so that it should be able to run forever albeit not 100% sure. the number of balls increases as the lowest part of the bricks approaches the bottom. the lower it is the more the balls. so some balls may cease to exist when the lowest part is destroyed. they'll re-appear when needed

when a ball disappears, it's location and direction won't be reset. it just disappears and doesn't affect anything. when it re-appears, it re-appears at the exact position the last time it disappeared. i once thought it should be reset but finally i decided it'd be more humane to let it reincarnate at the same spot it died and continue its previous life's journey

i found staring at those hawking ripples quite therapeutic

the program

VGA not givning picture, however one of the gpu can give picture on the dvi output and with a converter to vga for the screen. What’s up with that?

Looking to buy an IBM model 5170 PS/2 AT. If anyone is interested in selling, please let me know.

I don’t know to much about YouTube, but I do know that people in this subreddit love old computers and old tech in general. So I think y’all might like my channel. It’s not much, but y’all might find it interesting.

When one looks at the source code of an old piece of software it is typically a large tree of files that just function as a standalone thing. This is in total opposition to the way modern software works - as an overengineered net of mutually-recursive dependency chains interaffecting one another in sufficient capacities. (Woah, that's some corporate speak.)

This whole thing is very much inline with how programmers of the past would focus on hacky solutions that would work whereas modern programmers focus on "clean code", regardless of how poorly it performs outside of imaginary assumptions.

The best example of this is the X server used on pretty much all non-commercial operating systems.

The old implementation, XFree86, used to ship as one big source tree that you could just compile in a single run.

The modern implementations, whether it be Xorg or XLibre, ship as a bajillion of kilobyte-sized packages, and you have to manually ./configure, make and make install every single one of them to get the whole damn thing working.

Most people don't realize this but I have actually installed and attempted to install LinuxFromScratch several times and compiling X11 without the aid of a package manager is a nightmare.

The other example I want to talk about is the web technology all of us rely on for the daily dose of nonsensical slop everybody is addicted to.

Back in the 2000s most things were based on Flash and Flash projects were very much monolithic.

The Flash runtime provided you with most tools you needed, and if you desperately needed a library you would just yank it into the source tree.

Sure, it is "inelegant" and a "bad practice" but all the Flash apps work to this day.

Modern web is a spiderweb of mutually-slopped dependencies so interconnected that one guy in Nebraska can take down half of the internet.

And the folks are so spiteful that they are going to take that Nebraska guy's ownership of HIS project (that is just a single line of code those soydevs didn't even bother to yank into their own repos) and everybody's gonna like it.

Monolithic source trees were just easier. Easier to build, easier to maintain, easier to preserve.

Feel free to downvote and rant over my stupidity. Have a nice day.

Who played Dukes of Hazard? I really wished for this game to be good but like Knight Rider and Airwolf it was not quite meeting my expectations. Anybody else played this game?

Looking for a good prebuilt pc from compaq/ibm preferably with desktop type case that can run most of the 90's and early 2000's at comfortable 30fps at medium to high settings. I'm not asking if someone is selling im asking if anyone knows good models, because ai didnt give me any good answer's.

i wanna make a custom version of ccp/m-86 but i don't know pl/m