Retro Dream

My little #retrocomputing world... Several weeks of work for 30 isometric #computer pictures!

The exotic counter of my studio: Secret of the Monkey Island running on IBM PS/2. And a bottle of rum!

Incredible nostalgic feeling, printing BASIC programs from 8-bit machines, here the Toshiba HX-21 MSX computer, Hitachi TV and Philips NMS 1421 printer.

@capek78 I can't remember if I heard speaker sound, but in any case it didn't left great memories even if there was.

@Retroldies Strange, my 386 at the time also had not yet a sound card, but the game had one of those clever drivers to play digitized sounds through the basic PC speaker. It sounded highly distorted on my PC though, since it had only a cheap piezo beeper instead of a proper speaker.

@8bit_moaner Good point👉

@Retroldies How com! Commodores didn’t ran Windows! 😆

Let's Play Retro! Springtime in my studio, retro computing with windows open on the green... What could you wish for?

@PolybiusOfNorth Absolutely 💯 it's so nostalgic

@Retroldies I love that unique vibration.

It feels incredibly good hearing the good old dot matrix printer do its noisy job

@AlphaStation_cl Nice beast!

@Retroldies I still have an Okidata ML-320.

@JaredDapena Yeeeeeeeesssss! Need to try mine yet. Hoping the Commodore printing commands are as easy as the Microsoft BASIC ones

@Retroldies Bought this last weekend and it purrs. Needs a new ribbon but it works perfectly.

@itthinx Absolutely fabulous, 💯 agree

@Retroldies The 8 bit era brought out incredibly amazing creativity in people, it was glorious!

@keithernet I can understand that :) But I guess you'd get used to it

@Retroldies Unless you worked at a small software company where the printer was next to your desk, and the office admin liked to print the entire customer list multiple times per day. Haha...

@mrbrent62 That sounds good :) I'll try to do the same

@Retroldies I used to print out spread sheets with Visacalc on mine.

@guyrleech Indeed! Incredibly reliable

@Retroldies Still in use at many airports around the world!

@alphafox Mine still doesn't work

This is the very first PC, the IBM 5150 - what was yours?

@AslanYorgun5 I prefer the ST too

@Retroldies 💕(while I must admit that the Amiga Paula chip gave a much superior gaming experience)

Another iconic image: Amiga system disk

@LarryDarDar1 True! Even a 16 color screen was fabulous when you were used to 8.

@Retroldies Those 16 bit computers like Amiga and Atari ST was like super computers for people moving up from 8bit computers.

@VideosYan Thanks man ;) I like treating these machines as artistic objects for photo/video shoots.

@Retroldies Man, this photo is so good looking, i could see it being used back then on a magazine promoting the release of the A500.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like this is the very first online review of the Toshiba HX-21 MSX system: youtu.be/hK2Fo2Q6wCc

@denhass12124561 @dr_l_alexandre c'est clair

@dr_l_alexandre il y aura encore d’autres mouvements on est à l’époque compuserve/yahoo sur l’ia

C’est incroyable ! La totalité de mon entourage est passé à Claude Opus 4.6 Tout le monde a quitté ChatGPT C’est un peu injuste parce que GPT 5.4 est vraiment bon… Mais Claude est meilleur quand même