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Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online
(
2025
)
(
retrocomputing
mac
software
browser
)
(
theregister.com
)
5 points
by
splorp
6 days ago
|
discuss
Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment
(
2025
)
(
historical
dec
pdp
exhibition
uk
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
4 points
by
splorp
19 days ago
|
discuss
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC
(
historical
basic
language
programming
commodore
)
(
theregister.com
)
6 points
by
splorp
97 days ago
|
discuss
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software
(
historical
os2
ibm
microsoft
speculative
review
)
(
theregister.com
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
106 days ago
|
discuss
SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system
(
svardos
drdos
open
source
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
8 points
by
bmonkey325
114 days ago
|
discuss
Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year
(
excel
spreadsheet
gui
anniversary
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
181 days ago
|
discuss
A working Turing Machine hits Lego Ideas
(
lego
turing
mechanical
computation
algorithm
concept
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
5 points
by
splorp
191 days ago
|
discuss
WordStar 7 (the last version released for DOS) has been rereleased for free
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
7 points
by
ann3nova
259 days ago
|
discuss
What did turbonerds do before the internet? a load of BBS
(
historical
origins
nostalgia
bbs
dialup
modems
telecom
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
262 days ago
|
discuss
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
(
cpm
digitalresearch
os
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
7 points
by
amoroso
263 days ago
|
discuss
Psion: the last computer Secrets of the Sony we never had
(
historical
psion
pda
symbian
mobile
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
7 points
by
bmonkey325
303 days ago
|
2 comments
Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators
(
game
sonic
ti84
porting
hardware
z80
)
(
theregister.com
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
330 days ago
|
1 comment
The many derivatives of the CP/M operating system
(
cpm
flexos
concurrentdos
drdos
msdos
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
338 days ago
|
discuss
Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else
(
raspberrypi
riscos
arm
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
8 points
by
bmonkey325
354 days ago
|
1 comment
The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!
(
cpu
hobbyist
z80
discontinuation
16bit
successors
zilog
retro
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
9 points
by
bmonkey325
360 days ago
|
discuss
PiStorm turbocharges vintage Amigas with the Raspberry Pi
(
amiga
raspberrypi
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
2 points
by
bmonkey325
424 days ago
|
discuss
The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128
(
spectrum
sinclair
development
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
8 points
by
nickt
458 days ago
|
1 comment
ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned
(
spectrum
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
4 points
by
jgrahamc
458 days ago
|
1 comment
40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes
(
elite
bbc
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
5 points
by
jgrahamc
460 days ago
|
1 comment
How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds
(
sinclair
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
9 points
by
amoroso
462 days ago
|
1 comment
Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form
(
atari
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
7 points
by
jgrahamc
462 days ago
|
7 comments
The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago
(
xerox
alto
gui
small
talk
parc
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
12 points
by
bmonkey325
506 days ago
|
4 comments
Revival of Medley/Interlisp
(
lisp
)
(
theregister.com
|
ia
)
6 points
by
amoroso
516 days ago
|
1 comment