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nickt 11 days ago | parent | on: Mac Themes Garden
When I see this, I can’t help but think, “man, how did we get so boring”. Probably when someone decided ads are more important than fun…
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- bmonkey325 11 days ago
  I think this is capturing part of the pre mobile era when the desktop was a prominent appliance in the home. When there was event tv. I knew people would would choose a Winamp skin seemingly daily. Computer themes and wallpapers were another big personalization thing.
  So many home PCs and laptops I see are the boring factory settings.
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nickt 13 days ago | parent | on: PDP-11/Hack de luxe
It's a really neat project. Sounds like he's planning to release the PCB and BOM, I think that'd be lovely in a blinkenlights case!
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nickt 78 days ago | parent | on: Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012
I’ve been tempted by one of these upgraded old-school Thinkpads:
https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/
But not pulled the trigger. Anyone have direct experience of these?
nickt 130 days ago | parent | on: SSI : Pool of Radiance RPG review
This is one of those games that I’ve seen crop up so many times, read so much about it and seen the videos that I misremember playing it. I never have but it does look great!
- danaris 130 days ago
  It was one of the first computer RPGs I played, and still one of the best computer implementations of D&D—especially early D&D. Personally, I still strongly prefer the fully-turn-based Gold Box combat system to the real-time-with-pause system popularized by Baldur's Gate.
nickt 147 days ago | parent | on: Building a replacement 386/486 CMOS battery
The linked bad idea Varta board made my day!
https://texelec.com/product/bad-barta/
nickt 153 days ago | parent | on: Micronet 800: Tunes your BBC into a new channel of...
Thanks for posting - the whole archive is a nicely curated treasure trove.
https://nosher.net/archives/computers/
nickt 154 days ago | parent | on: Donut shop in Indiana still using a Commodore 64.
It looks like there’s 2 modern PSUs sitting between them so they’re probably OG.
- bmonkey325 154 days ago
  I was just being funny. I have no doubt these are real C64's doing gods work for a donut shop
nickt 154 days ago | parent | on: Donut shop in Indiana still using a Commodore 64.
That’s a great example of “the Commodore keeping up with you”!
nickt 161 days ago | parent | on: Retro Enthusiast Gift Ideas
I think you mean your friend doesn’t have an active Mac or Amiga project… :)
- bmonkey325 161 days ago
  lol. Accurate.
nickt 169 days ago | parent | on: 8-Bit Computers Crunch Advanced Scientific Computa...
I enjoyed the 8-bit blah blah blah followed rapidly by an Amiga BASIC screenshot…
- bmonkey325 168 days ago
  Yes. AmigaBasic made me chuckle too.
  Did a lot of astronomy calculations on Atari 800s and Apple II systems even it was closed form equations it was much easier than doing them on a calculator.
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