Hackaday (unofficial) August 28, 2024 6:00am Exploring PC Floppy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock #retrocomputing #contentprotection #copylock #floppydisk #ibmpc #kingsquest #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Exploring PC Floppy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock [GloriousCow] has started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of th…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 7, 2024 6:00pm The IBM PC: Brainchild of a Misfit #retrocomputing #ibm #ibmpc #pc #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The IBM PC: Brainchild Of A Misfit We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The tit…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 6, 2024 7:00am Video And Audio Playback On Low-End MS-DOS machines #retrocomputing #ibmpc #msdos #multimedia #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Video And Audio Playback On Low-End MS-DOS Machines For most people the phrases ‘MS-DOS’ and ‘video playback’ probably aren’t commonly associated, yet it was quite normal as those of us who were watching full-motion vid…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 12, 2023 7:00pm The IBM MDA Should Have Been The CDA #retrocomputing #displayadapter #ibmpc #mda #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The IBM MDA Should Have Been The CDA If you are reading this on an IBM PC-compatible computer, it is a certainty that its graphics card will support the lowest common denominator of PC displays, the Monochrome Display Adapter, or MDA.…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 7, 2023 7:00am Browsing The WWW On a 1980s IBM PC Using MicroWeb #internethacks #retrocomputing #ibmpc #microweb #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Browsing The WWW On A 1980s IBM PC Using MicroWeb Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘WWW’ to stay up to date on all the goings-on in the world? Fret not, because [Al’s Geek L…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 9, 2023 4:00pm MS-DOS Meets the Fediverse #retrocomputing #softwarehacks #dos #fediverse #ibmpc #mastodon #networking #socialmedia #tcpip #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 MS-DOS Meets The Fediverse By now, most Windows users are set up with decently functional machines running Windows 10 or 11. Of course there are a few legacy machines still lagging behind on Windows 7 or 8 and plenty of comp…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 3, 2023 6:00am IBM PC Runs BASIC With Motorola 68000 CPU Upgrade #classichacks #retrocomputing #8088 #ibmpc #motorola68000 #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 IBM PC Runs BASIC With Motorola 68000 CPU Upgrade Although ARM CPUs have been making headway in several areas of computing over the last decade or so, the vast majority of desktop, laptop and server CPUs are still based on the x86 architecture. Ho…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 18, 2022 6:00am How the IBM PC Went 8-Bit #retrocomputing #8088 #ibmpc #intel #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 How The IBM PC Went 8-Bit If you were around when the IBM PC rolled out, two things probably caught you by surprise. One is that the company that made the Selectric put that ridiculous keyboard on it. The other was that it …
Se7h 💻 🐃 August 23, 2021 10:57pm Joyeux anniversaires : Windows XP a 20 ans, le Web a 30 ans, le PC a 40 ans https://www.nextinpact.com/article/47846/joyeux-anniversaires-windows-xp-a-20-ans-web-a-30-ans-pc-a-40-ans #IBMPC #Web #WWW #WorldWideWeb #WindowsXP Joyeux anniversaires : Windows XP a 20 ans, le Web a 30 ans, le PC a 40 ans
Hackaday (unofficial) July 28, 2021 9:00am Emulating the IBM PC on an ESP32 #mischacks #esp32 #fabgl #ibmpc #pc #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Emulating The IBM PC On An ESP32 The IBM PC spawned the basic architecture that grew into the dominant Wintel platform we know today. Once heavy, cumbersome and power thirsty, it’s a machine that you can now emulate on a sin…
