The Last Psion WARNING: Will sidequest

At long last, my blog is up and running!

thelastpsion.com

I'll be bringing all of my old hackaday.io posts over as soon as I can, with updates and annotations.

It'll mostly be about my #Psion adventures, but I'll also be posting information my myriad sidequests.

#CodebergPages

Osborne Computer liquidated April 9, 1986 Adam Osborne learned the hard way that building a tech startup is hard

Osborne Computer was a big, big deal in the early 1980s. Its founder even wrote a book called Hypergrowth. But by 1986, the hypergrowth was over and Osborne liquidated April 9, 1986. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing dfarq.homeip.net/osborne-comp...

Kinda sort of accidentally on purpose bought a trashcan #mac

Release v4.0.0 · polpo/picogus New features/changes Sound Blaster 16 SB mode now emulates a Sound Blaster 16. I had a somewhat-working implementation of the SB16 DSP in late 2024 but was discouraged by poor compatibility in Wind...

#PicoGUS can now emulate Sound Blaster 16 with the newly released firmware v4.0.0! Other changes include CD-ROM speed and reliability improvements, GUS mode improvements, and more. Check the full changelog and download the release at github.com/polpo/picogu...

www.vogons.org/download/fil... is the floppy image to write to a 1.44mb floppy for optrom booter
www.vogons.org/download/fil... is the bios rom with xtide to flash to an eeprom

I wrote the image onto a new eeprom - I used a TommyProm home made programmer that I made years ago
tomnisbet.github.io/TommyPROM/
If your floppy drive works, you can use
github.com/rvalles/optr... to load xtide (or any option rom) from floppy at boot too

I cant pretend to understand what was done - but the resulting bios image works really nicely

I dont have a charger either but wired a usb pd module to the battery terminals and, as mine doesnt have a modem (looks like yours does?) I used the space for the modem jack to mount the usb-c connector. Now usb-c powered and works well.
Fwiw, caps were all bad on power board on mine

I think that's the 286 version of the 386sx laptop I have. Someone on vogons hacked the bios for me to ad in xtide so any hdd size can be used rather than the predefined ones only
www.vogons.org/viewtopic.ph...

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo just got a Commodore 64 port A new fan-made port brings Capcom's 1994 arcade classic to the Commodore 64 and 128, and it runs shockingly well.

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo just got a Commodore 64 port

A new fan-made port brings Capcom's 1994 arcade classic to the Commodore 64 and 128, and it runs shockingly well.

#Retro #commodore64 #streetfighter #homebrew #port

A throne with a golden toilet just went up on the National Mall, in front of the Washington Monument, protesting Trump’s grandiose White House renovations.

It includes a roll of toilet paper that reads “The Secret Handshake,” from the same group responsible for the statue of Trump and Epstein.

Shitty computer on #shittycamerachallenge
#retrocomputing
#kodakcharmera

(I know it's not really shitty)

The memories!
My school's machines...

#retrocomputing

Handing out the Epstein files at CPAC.

From @thegoodliars.bsky.social

It's great! Got quite a nice tape loading screen too iirc

Out and about with the #Charmera #kodakcharmera
#Photography #shittycamerachallenge

What was that comment today about Pearl Harbour?

A true classic! Still holds up

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.

Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours.

Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

WatchTower at St Elmos Fort

#believeinfilm #photography #travel #classicmono #eastcoastkin

An update, regarding the monetisation issue.

No resolution yet.

“Drill baby drill” approach to North Sea would cost households more than a fully renewable UK, finds Oxford analysis A UK powered fully by renewable energy could save all households up to £441 a year on their energy bills, according to a new Oxford Smith School analysis. In comparison, maximising oil & gas extractio...

NEW ANALYSIS: North Sea “drill baby drill” would cut bills by just £16–£82 per year, and only if tax revenues are redistributed.

A fully renewable UK could save households up to £441 says @smithschool.ox.ac.uk.

www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/drill-b...

Letter in Times today:

Sir, Given the damage the UK has inflicted on itself since Brexit, surely the animal most appropriate for depiction on banknotes is a lemming.
Rob Maynard
Bishopsworth, Bristol

Apologies all, GamesMaster won't be released this Friday while I deal with this. Absolutely not what I needed right now.

Yes, we have some serious problems in the UK, but at least we didn't make Jimmy Savile Prime Minister after he'd attempted a coup against the state and then let him appoint all his creepy mates to plum government jobs before attempting to destroy the international political order

This looks like a roll of film. It’s actually an APS-C sensor to convert film to digital I'm Back is building another digital sensor that fits inside a roll of film, but this time it's APS-C and without the bulk

@lgr-yt.bsky.social Iooks like you can't keep an iffy idea down! APS-C now... share.google/IeQNAA0awmM7...

UK grid now at about 2300 at night.
The sooner we move off fossil generation for good the better