Toni Westbrook

Wanted to share a personal project! ZISA-X is a new computer combining the #Z80 processor and PC ISA bus and tons o features. Allows CP/M-80 to use PC cards like CGA/VGA, floppy controllers, etc! Hardware soon but emulator is available now! #retrocomputing github.com/SyntheticDream…

The UNH RCC is hiring! We're looking for someone to manage our Cloud & HPC team. Do you thrive in a dynamic environment? Love facilitating interesting research? Have experience with Slurm, Lustre/GPFS, and AWS? This may be the perfect position for you! jobs.usnh.edu/postings/56419

Just a heads up for #PALADIN users, I've updated PALADIN-plugins to support the new Uniprot API. TSV report generation will now work again. I will be updating PALADIN itself soon with the same fix, stay tuned! #metagenomics github.com/ToniWestbrook/…

The BBSes are looking spooky in Cloudburst Connection! 🎃 Happy Halloween from Synthetic Dreams! 👻 #indiegamedev #gamedev #madewithunity #ANSI #ASCII #textmode #halloween

@brockgs Unfortunately, $75 for a 5.25 (1.2MB) drive is about average these days. You can find tested ones as low as $50 on ebay, but since they're out of production the prices have gone up. I just built a kryoflux station and paid about $50. In any case, good luck in your search!

One of the multiplayer minigames in our dialup BBS themed #RPG sim is a fun take on flashlight tag: explore a dark maze, grab power-ups, and try to shine your light on other players until they're no longer hidden! #screenshotsaturday #retrogaming #ANSI #ASCII #gamedev #indiedev

A quick demo of Cloudburst Connection development so far. Nothing like that sweet melody of a dial-up modem connecting at 2400 BPS! Here's a small taste of connecting to an in-game BBS, playing some Blackjack, and then using text paint. #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #retrogaming

Check out our new game in development, Cloudburst Connection! Explore life running a dial-up Bulletin Board System (#BBS) in the 1980s. Build & visit boards and interact with your users in this #RPG simulation! #indiegame #80s #RetroComputing toniwestbrook.com/archives/categ…

Sad to see Masayuki Uemura has died, he was responsible for a lot of great childhood memories. After implementing an NES compatible system in an FPGA last year, I gained a lot of respect for the technical achievements that he and his team accomplished.

@Joshuaureus Awesome, glad you got to use your program! Are you getting to code often at the Broad institute?

@davidmt Loved this game and played it a ton on my C64. Didn't realize until later it was published by Sierra!

BC's Quest for Tires 🦖 Thor, star of the comic strip B.C., must save his girlfriend from a dinosaur with nothing but his trusty prehistoric unicycle and quick reflexes in this challenging early side-scroller on the #Commodore64. I bet a lot of you #C64 owners had this one!

Does anyone have any rough statistics on how many university #HPC environments have at least one centrally managed #Anaconda installation? @anacondainc

@davidmt Played a bit of this over lunch today - the new "modern" mode with scrolling and new artwork is a really cool addition. For only a few bucks it's definitely worth it!

This is the 80's classic "Montezuma's Revenge!" rebooted by the original developer for Windows10. Includes both "retro" and "modern" graphics-and its not emulated. It's cheap, so why not support the developer if you pirated the game back in the day 🏴‍☠️ store.steampowered.com/app/1421120/Mo…

@eobet @davidmt @C64Retweets Oh wow, thanks for the heads up, I just bought it on Steam! I also originally pirated this back in the day before I knew better (copied a floppy with a mix of games on it from a friend). Nice that he added Steam achievements to it too!

In Montezuma's Revenge, players control Panama Joe in this cool 1984 exploration platformer. The game came out for many systems, but the #C64 version is my favorite. Rolling skulls, dancing spiders 🕷️, disappearing chains ⛓️ and tons of fire 🔥await you! @C64Retweets

@davidmt @C64Retweets Very cool! They did a great job!

@ToniWestbrook @C64Retweets Yes, it is one of my favorites as well. The developer was only 16 years old at the time!

@davidmt I still have a Commodore Select Edition 286 in working condition!

In the post Tramiel-era, Commodore released a series of IBM compatible machines. I worked at a Commodore shop part time during my college years, and I honestly can't recall selling a single one. At the time, it was branded as the "COLT". #Commodore #RetroComputing

Finally added an #FTDI #UART to my #FPGA designs for debugging. I feel really dumb for waiting years to do it, it took no time to do and now I can send to the PC at 1Mbps. Way easier than signaltap or 7seg. Anyone have any debugging methods they like? (Photo: MIDI data)

@davidmt One of my favs, I played this all the time in the arcades growing up and on my mame cabinet now. I've always loved the beautiful isometric graphics.

"Crystal Castles" was a trackball-controlled arcade game released by #Atari in 1983. The player controls Bentley Bear who has to collect gems located throughout trimetric-projected rendered castles while avoiding enemies, some of whom are after the gems as well. #RetroGaming

@anna_mobrien @McbsUnh @COLSA_UNH Welcome to the team, Anna!! Eager to chat more once you arrive!

Absolutely delighted to announce I'll be joining the MCBS Dept. at U of New Hampshire in March & starting up the O'Brien lab! Relatedly, are you, or do you know, a prospective grad student interested in evolution & ecology of plant microbiomes? Let's talk! @McbsUnh & @COLSA_UNH