Which is of course absolute, complete, utter bullshit - which you'd have known if you'd even bothered to check the actual git repo and its README.

Memtest86 5.01 reporting loads of memory errors. Yay.

This should probably have a trigger warning. #Memtest #Retrocomputing #BadRam

The museum in Helmond is absolutely fantastic. I've visited twice. The town is cute too. :)

How about a risk assessment of EU businesses using US-owned cloud solutions now that Trump has shown he'll break any deal - even those made by himself? "Safe harbour" agreements between EU and US are now effectively worthless, and Musk wants your data. #privacy #USpol #EUpol #PII #NoDeal #Cloud

Is foul language allowed here? Because I have nothing else to offer.

Kernel messages from NetBSD 10.1 on an AMD 486. Panics due to low memory after showing interesting sound cards detected. No correlation I'm sure - only including to brag.

Screenshot from NetBSD installer unpacking base.tgz at a whopping 600KB per second.

Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.

A #NetBSD story in three pictures. See weirdr.net/snac/ltning/... for details.

#retrocomputing #runbsd #bsd #unix

Photo of an original Intel Pentium CPU. Markings read: - A80501-60 - L3380833 - SX753 - INTEL (m) (c) 1992

I got mine today. Reads 1992. :)

Imagine the voltages and magnetic fields inside of it, needed to bend those beams around such sharp corners .. take care when you open it up, yeah? And if you've plugged it in any time in the last... year or so, give it another year to discharge ;)

That one is so big and flat it almost passes as an LCD. Half points only, I'm sorry Sir.

Haha okay I guess I prioritise my eyes and having room for at least one more OpenBenchTable. ;)
I also have a 17" (or is it 19"?) Trinitron (why doesn't autocorrect know that word?!?) but mostly use it when I'm mess up display settings in OS/2 so the LCD can't render the signal. :D

You know back in the day people used to have these ..what were they called... houses? Large dwellings with plenty of space for CRT monitors and TVs, gramophone players, guest rooms, multiple bathrooms and walk-in closets.
Nowadays people live in shoe boxes with desks the size/depth of door mats. :D

Playing #MonkeyIsland 2 and drinking #beer. The #MT32 chugging along playing the absolutely awesome soundtrack. #retrogaming for the win - and it's even better on real hardware. :D

Particularly when tcp/ip is added to the mix (and tcpbeui). Who needs that in DOS anyway? It's for the big boys in suits running OS/2 and they have all the memory in the world!
I mean a 286 with NetBIOS over TCP/IP is quickly down to ~450kb conventional mem by the time the first drive is mapped..

It's, I suspect, one of the reasons the 16-bit lanman client for dos never got much memory optimisation love. Why waste time saving a few kb when the 640kb limit was about to be a thing of the past anyway?

Copper heat sink and fan covering a Harris 80286-25, Cyrix 287XL+, RAM and "Solutions" chipset (C&T NEAT clone) in the background.

Norton SysInfo gives a score of 23.6, while a 386DX-33 scores 35.9.

The classic Superscape 3DBench shows a score of 11.2.

Custom clock generator from MiGron, the All_Clk. Mounted in the place of the original 50MHz crystal. It has a 25MHz crystal and is jumper for 2.5x, giving a 62.5MHz clock. The CPU runs at half of that.

#Overclocking time! Can a 286 run at >25MHz? Indeed it can! With a custom clock generator, some extra cooling, fast RAM and chipset, this old hero reaches new heights :) >18fps in #Doom (github.com/FrenkelS/Doo...), >11 in 3DBench, and plays #tracker music all night on the #GUS!
#retrocomputing

@luigithirty.bsky.social Scrolled your profile a bit and saw references to edm2.. You into tcp/ip coding in DOS perchance? I've got this DOS IRC server (ngircd) that I suspect is leaking some resource or other .. but I don't know the first thing about debugging it myself.

Wouldn't think of it.

Yep. I only ever fired it up once, I wasn't a big gamer at the time. May need to install it on one of my boxes one of these days...if I can find a copy that doesn't have to be purchased :P

Me (well, my chest) wearing three floppy disks - one 8 inch, one 5 1/4 inch and one 90mm - hanging from a lanyard around my neck. Also wearing a burgundy-red Brewdog Saint T-shirt. :)

OS/2 Warp 3 running a few Synchronet BBS nodes.

Dimly lit makeshift rack with a 486 motherboard with CPU and various expansion cards in the upper half and the screen and keyboard on a shelf below. Running OS/2 and Novell Netware.

Picture of two LED-equipped oversized floppies hanging on my wall.

So I'm also here, now. Saving the space for when I can run my own PDS on #FreeBSD. If you've already done so, reach out to me! In return, I promise to post details here if I get it off the ground.
Meanwhile, enjoy some random pictures from my #retrocomputing adventures. Check out my museum (in bio)!

What was that massive game from Stardock? Galactic Civilizations or something?

OS/2 Warp 3 desktop showing several Synchronet BBS nodes running, with a file transfer going on.

Not dual screens, but several OS/2 machines around here :D