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Chips & Technologies’ WINGINE Graphics Subsystem
I’ve gone through a lot of computers since I got my first for Christmas in 1982 (age 10). A few were PCs. Of the PCs I’ve owned, one had a particularly interesting feature that I’ll wager no one...
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Setting Out to Build a 486-Class DOS Box
[UPDATE: This turned into a three-part post, with a video of the build process at the end. So, read on!] This is a quick post to lay out the plan for a retro project that has recently struck me and to...
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DOS Box Build: Update #1
A few weeks back I wrote a post detailing my desire to build a 486-class DOS box. In the time since then, I’ve been actively digging parts out of my storage shelves and scanning eBay for the remaining,...
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Behold: The 5×86 System Build Is Complete!
Back in November I became inspired by the knowledge that my favorite old school DOS MODplayer had “recently” received an update, and expressed my intention (part 1) to more-or-less recreate the...
View ArticleHoliday Music Week III at r/Retrobattlestations
Once again the season is upon us, and that means it’s Holiday Music Week over at /r/Retrobattlestations. Holiday Music Week III, to be precise. While I fired up the Apple IIgs for a previous HMW, this...
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My Skylake Gaming PC Build [Updated]
A month ago I shared my feelings about Hello Games’ space exploration game No Man’s Sky. (Spoiler: I loved it — and still do, about 150 hours in.) In the post I mentioned that parts were in the mail...
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My First Taste of CGA “Composite Color”
As a long-time Apple II users I am quite familiar with the technique of generating color video by way of NTSC “artifact color” (also sometimes referred to as “composite color”). The 8-bit Apple II...
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A Look at the Short-Lived 3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk
I was recently listening to the latest episode of Retro Computing Roundtable podcast during which there was mention of a 3-inch floppy disk. No, not 3.5-inch, but 3-inch. These disks are known as...
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Thinking Back on ‘Turbo Pascal’ as It Turns 40
November marked the 40th anniversary of Turbo Pascal, the first Integrated Development Environment (or IDE), which allowed a user to quickly and easily write a program in the Pascal programming...
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