This is a weblog post I wrote over a decade ago about the last time I tried to do this:

https://superhighwayman.com/2012/primary-source-not-found/

It gets there in the second half :D

The sad thing about reading that, which I wrote in 2012, is that so many of the Primary Sources I can think of for a lot of this stuff are dead now; so it's still all being lost every day. I have done some interviews, so as I discovered a few weeks ago, some of that is preserved on Wikipedia (someone had posted a photo/article I had no idea existed) - But I have a Wiki page and deliberately force myself to do some interviews these days - most people don't.

#RetroComputing #Wikipedia #History

This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history.

I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD (AND the MIST) on a mirror of the original Essex University system that finally closed in 1991.

Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle wrote the first online multi-user game (MUD) on Essex University's DECSystem-10 in 1978 and it ran till I closed it in 1991. I diligently backed everything up so I could potentially recover it one day, but as far as I can see, all the DECSystem-10's went to the great scrapyard in the sky, my backups were mostly stolen when my first museum was stolen, and I had huge issues recovering the Essex BCPL compiler to compile what I had left when I finally got a decent TOPS-10 emulator running on a VAX for Bletchley Park.

One good thing about being an unemployable whistleblower is free time, so I finally hunkered down to some 90 hour weeks and built a software replica of the Essex system I think reflects it well. It's running on a KS10 not a KL10 but I had to let some things slip.

I put the latest known versions of MUD and MIST on it, and miraculously found ROCK too.

So, to meander to the point, if you want to see and relive exactly what online multi user gaming was like from 1978 to 1991, you can go to https://dec10.uknet.net and login as guest, then follow the terse instructions from there.

In those days, you were generally faced with a "." prompt and left mostly alone, so for authenticity, I will leave it at that.

I should note that this is a museum peice, without a community they are still wildly popular games with a huge community in snapshot-form at the moment. But I will leave them up and running to see. I wasn't going to, but Richard seemed happy to have MUD running, and former MIST players wanted it back, so...

Pop this a share if you know folks who might be interested.

#history #digital #retrogaming #retrocomputing #games #mud #muds #computers #emulation #emulators #vms #tops10 #museum #history #bletchleypark #simh

(don't try this on a phone!)

AmigoTracker plays Amiga era Protracker modules on your Playdate.

https://outgunned.itch.io/amigo-tracker

🎵 laamaa - it is a synthwave

#playdate #retrocomputing #music #amiga

This is a weblog post I wrote over a decade ago about the last time I tried to do this:

https://superhighwayman.com/2012/primary-source-not-found/

It gets there in the second half :D

The sad thing about reading that, which I wrote in 2012, is that so many of the Primary Sources I can think of for a lot of this stuff are dead now; so it's still all being lost every day. I have done some interviews, so as I discovered a few weeks ago, some of that is preserved on Wikipedia (someone had posted a photo/article I had no idea existed) - But I have a Wiki page and deliberately force myself to do some interviews these days - most people don't.

#RetroComputing #Wikipedia #History

This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history.

I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD (AND the MIST) on a mirror of the original Essex University system that finally closed in 1991.

Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle wrote the first online multi-user game (MUD) on Essex University's DECSystem-10 in 1978 and it ran till I closed it in 1991. I diligently backed everything up so I could potentially recover it one day, but as far as I can see, all the DECSystem-10's went to the great scrapyard in the sky, my backups were mostly stolen when my first museum was stolen, and I had huge issues recovering the Essex BCPL compiler to compile what I had left when I finally got a decent TOPS-10 emulator running on a VAX for Bletchley Park.

One good thing about being an unemployable whistleblower is free time, so I finally hunkered down to some 90 hour weeks and built a software replica of the Essex system I think reflects it well. It's running on a KS10 not a KL10 but I had to let some things slip.

I put the latest known versions of MUD and MIST on it, and miraculously found ROCK too.

So, to meander to the point, if you want to see and relive exactly what online multi user gaming was like from 1978 to 1991, you can go to https://dec10.uknet.net and login as guest, then follow the terse instructions from there.

In those days, you were generally faced with a "." prompt and left mostly alone, so for authenticity, I will leave it at that.

I should note that this is a museum peice, without a community they are still wildly popular games with a huge community in snapshot-form at the moment. But I will leave them up and running to see. I wasn't going to, but Richard seemed happy to have MUD running, and former MIST players wanted it back, so...

Pop this a share if you know folks who might be interested.

#history #digital #retrogaming #retrocomputing #games #mud #muds #computers #emulation #emulators #vms #tops10 #museum #history #bletchleypark #simh

(don't try this on a phone!)

New instance, new intro post! 👋

Hi, I'm Alice. I'm a witchy lady married to my partner, Sam, and we have 2 adorable tabby cats. We're in our late-30s and live in the Southeast US of A. And we hate Nazis!

Topics to expect from me:

#ActuallyAutistic

#AliceCollectsThings

#AuDHD

#Beatles

#Music

#NoAI

#RetroComputing

#Tamagotchi

#USpol

#VideoGames

I'm here to socialize, so feel free to reply or chat w/ me!

Thanks for following, hope to see y'all around 🦄 💖

It doesn’t panic right away, it gets a little into booting. #linux #VintageComputing #RetroComputing

Trying to boot Knoppix 3.3 on this old Pentium laptop and the #linux kernel panics. I’m using failsafe but apparently that’s not enough. The plan was to use a Linux so I could backup the hard drive over a PCMCIA 3com adapter. #VintageComputing #RetroComputing

Retro Futurism is Back!

I am checking out the latest version of Commodore OS Vision v3. I installed this gorgeous, Amiga inspired Linux distro on an Intel N150 Mini PC.

Yes, the ISO is 38GB! We talk about why and dive into that amazing retro futuristic UI. Plus, I play some random Linux games to see how it performs.

Watch it here:
PeerTube: https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/uM486qhkXWVaH2WwPZ5NU7

YouTube: https://youtu.be/-jBXUlSJmZM

#Linux #Commodore #Amiga #RetroComputing #MiniPC #CommodoreOS #GamingOnLinux #SelfHosted #Tech

Retro Futurism is Back!

I am checking out the latest version of Commodore OS Vision v3. I installed this gorgeous, Amiga inspired Linux distro on an Intel N150 Mini PC.

Yes, the ISO is 38GB! We talk about why and dive into that amazing retro futuristic UI. Plus, I play some random Linux games to see how it performs.

Watch it here:
PeerTube: https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/uM486qhkXWVaH2WwPZ5NU7

YouTube: https://youtu.be/-jBXUlSJmZM

#Linux #Commodore #Amiga #RetroComputing #MiniPC #CommodoreOS #GamingOnLinux #SelfHosted #Tech

BeOS: The Operating System That Almost Replaced Mac OS [Part 1] #marchintosh

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jWivem85FnE

#beos #apple #90s #retrocomputing

BeOS: The Operating System That Almost Replaced Mac OS [Part 1] #marchintosh

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jWivem85FnE

#beos #apple #90s #retrocomputing

Does anyone have the #Winchester 85MB harddrive with the serial 101341?

I have your factory bad blocks file printed out. IT came on a disk this was in, but sadly it got re-formatted.

#retroComputing

The exact moment software went downhill was when #mozilla changed away from this.

#retrocomputing