14 stories tagged with #retrocomputing, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone
There was more to it than the loss of its CEO and legal pressure from IBM…
Cheap Yellow Display with Boosted PSRAM Turned Snazzy Emulator Station
The ‘Cheap Yellow Display’, or CYD, is becoming a staple in these circles, and with good reason: just like the name says, it’s cheap, it has a display, and of course an ESP32 micr……
ESP-Osito Eschews Retrocomputing for Modern Code on Modern, Equivalent Hardware
If you’re of a certain vintage, you have probably looked at some of the microcomputers on the market these days and thought “that would have been a decent workstation back in the d…
A Modern Web Browser For Classic Mac OS
When using older computers there comes a point at which modern software drops support, as for example is happening with builds for Windows XP. Every now and then though, along come…
When is an Apple Laptop Not a Macbook? When it’s an Apple II
Do you remember, some years ago, when that brand-new 8086-based laptop hit the shelves? Great for PC lovers, but not so fun for those on the fruitier side of the street. Well, the …
An Atic Atac Minimap For The ZX Spectrum
The use of modern microcontrollers as add-on peripherals for 1980s home computers has delivered significant benefits and capabilities unimaginable in the days when those machines w…
Three Arduinos Team Up To Make 80s-Style Computer
Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your equivalent currency unit of choice), and all for an 8-bit mach…
Tiny C64 PSU Rejects Tradition, Embraces USB
The Commodore 64 has, by modern standards, the interesting power requirement of needing both 5 VDC and 9 VAC. Traditionally, one would use an iron-core transformer to step-down the…
Peek Into IBM’s System/360 With Vintage Training Film
Computing goes hand-in-hand with how to structure and access data, and this internal training film from IBM regarding file organization and data processing with System/360 is from …
z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode
There are many ways you can implement an Intel i386 CPU on an FPGA, with the use of original microcode probably being one of the most interesting approaches. This is what [nand2mar…
3D Printing Space Cadet Pinball Into the Real World
Unless you’ve managed to avoid touching a Windows computer until after the Windows XP era, it’s pretty good odds you’ve played Space Cadet Pinball. Some of you may have even paid ……
Just How Bad Was the Intel iAPX432?
Processor design over the last few decades has moved toward RISC processors that aim to implement a few simple operations very efficiently. For a while, though, the trend was towar…
Meet the Raven: an Atari Clone Computer Based on the Motorola 68060
Some people who have a hankering to run GEM/TOS applications might just fire up an emulator, or maybe coax an old Motorola 68k-based Atari ST system back to life. Then there are pe…
CGA As You Have Never Seen It Before
An old-style graphics system as found on many 8-bit computers and on early PC graphics cards drew its characters by retrieving their bitmaps from a ROM. With a little sideways thin…