photo of my Interact Home Computer 1st edition, with chiclet keycaps. it has a hybrid analog and digital controller. it is resting on a wood floor

a bitmap representation of an analog clock, with text reading “froyo tam loves you”

Alien Invaders (1981) by Micro Video loading screen, a clone of Space Invaders

title screen of Concentration (1978) by Interact

i recently got a working Interact Home Computer (1978), designed in Ann Arbor, Michigan. it uses an intel 8080 CPU with a TI SN76477 sound chip. The graphics display is software driven, with a resolution of 112x78 pixels.

code adapted from : https://gist.github.com/eparadis/d4a242c8cc149f3583c303efa80532c4 ascii rendition of the mandelbrot set, rendered on thermal receipt paper, on aim-65

tiny ascii mandelbrot

rockwell aim-65 printing

IBM’s flavor of UNIX System V, intended to run only on IBM PowerPC RS/6000 computers

about as bad as it looks, takes about 2-3 presses to register a keypress

photo of my Interact Home Computer 1st edition, with chiclet keycaps. it has a hybrid analog and digital controller. it is resting on a wood floor

a bitmap representation of an analog clock, with text reading “froyo tam loves you”

Alien Invaders (1981) by Micro Video loading screen, a clone of Space Invaders

title screen of Concentration (1978) by Interact

i recently got a working Interact Home Computer (1978), designed in Ann Arbor, Michigan. it uses an intel 8080 CPU with a TI SN76477 sound chip. The graphics display is software driven, with a resolution of 112x78 pixels.

sinclair zx81 hooked up to timex sinclair 2040 printer. paper says my name in blocky letters

🖨️

i love this magical girl using a pda for her magical item

i made it entirely on aldus superpaint, and photoshop 4.0!

photo of a poster taken on a crt with retrace lines visible towa tei last century modern, track listing

made a fanmade poster for towa tei’s last century modern

Better than the originals

my own designed booklet covers for rca cosmac 1802 microprocessor

RAECO TPR-1 paper tape reader, operated with a desk lamp or light source. outputs to a parallel db-25 port. a folded paper tape from a PDP-11 marked “GUNNERY”, a BASIC game is threaded into the paper tape reader.

paper tape reader

i got the 800xl PAL computer with VBXE! lots of neat demos

dreaming of a world without microslop or wintel

NUMEN by TQA - Atari XL/XE Demo - 320k - YouTube video by Area64

not yet, though if you want to see its graphical capabilities (with ram upgrade), check out NUMEN it has a lot of real-time complex gfx that were done for the first time on it

youtu.be/bTCVpCPvfBM?...

here: web.archive.org/web/20040402...

photo of my atari xegs, purchased at VCF SoCal for $90. photo includes keyboard and copy of mario bros XE, plugged into the system. keyboard is a rubber dome mitsumi type and probably one of the worst keyboards i’ve used. same keyboard as the rest of the XE and ST line. hardware based on atari 65xe. has 64kb of RAM, SIO port, GTIA, ANTIC, and POKEY chips. BASIC runs when keyboard is plugged in. missle command plays when no keyboard or cartridge plugged in. fascinating 45 degree angle design, but ports (outside the SIO and video / power ports) also at 45 degree angle so it is not very practical for inserting peripherals. i still personally enjoy the design, and the atari 8-bit line has a fantastic library of games, programs, and demoscene releases. works best paired with a Fujinet

atari xegs console/computer

Sun Ultra 5, resting on top of my IBM RS/6000 model 150 43p

Solaris 9 desktop screenshot, running XScreenSaver hypercube + helix, and Macintosh Application Environment 3.0

Quake on Solaris, showing a color palette swap across the UI to fit Quake

i got my first Sun workstation!
Sun Ultra 5

it has a HyperSPARC IIi @ 400mhz, 256MB of RAM, ATI Mach64, running Solaris 9

got it to run Quake too

VCF SoCal stage, room filled up with attendees for my talk

closeup on attendees to my talk

people greeting me after the presentation

my first panel at VCF SoCal last week was a success! managed to fill the room up. had a blast talking about the history of desktop publishing and scalable typography

photos and digicam snaps by @semichapeau.bsky.social

6V solar panel connected to an altoids-sized cosmac vip2k computer, hooked up to portable monochrome tv

solar powered cosmac computer

Amiga 2000 running Imagine 4.0, showing a wireframe cow in four views. Cow is from Imagine 4.0 sample objects.

phong-shaded raytraced cow. cow is from Imagine 4.0 sample objects

cow.obj

i’ll be replying back today, thanks for the reminder!

Vadem Clio showing the splash screen of Waranya!

Waranya! for Windows CE by Akinohitoshi / Friedfood (2002)

i love fermentation as a hobby, it’s like playing an idle game with produce

$20

AIX 4.3.3 Boot screen

CDE Desktop on AIX 4.3.3, Mustard color scheme

AIX 4.3.3 on IBM RS/6000

i really want a glass terminal

my 1802 membership card, hooked up to breadboard and TTL-RS232

Lee Hart from TMSI creates altoids-sized COSMAC computers, this is my 1802 membership card i have. it runs on a 4mhz CDP1802. it also comes with a ROM with monitor, RCA floating-point BASIC3, and Adventureland text adventure game.