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All my life i thought these were pretty common. Now im finding basically nothing in my online searches for them. I am pretty sure they were sold by a traveling salesman to my parents.

https://archive.org/details/chips_challenge_windows_3.x

I have many recently recalled fond memories of this game on the family pc. I didn't even know what it was called. I just knew I liked the game with the little blue pajama boy. Hadn't thought about this years!

hi there, wondering if I could get some help here:
I have an old CRT tv black and white, I've plugged it to an HDMI/composite to RF modulator HDM69

It used to work some time ago but can't find out why it doesn't anymore

When I don't plug anything it seems alright (but not sure it really is) but as soon as I plus HDMI or composite my tv doesn't display things right
Notice that it works on my modern tv
Here is a video showing what's happening

Any ideas ? <3

PS: the horrible noise is my vaccum cleaner

Direct YT video link: https://youtu.be/TBiFGhnXsh8

There are five days to go!

I'm not sure how the latest ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter completely missed this community, so I'm rectifying that now.

I've been going through some of my late father's possessions and found a stash of VIC-20 cassettes. Some are more well known games, while others are more niche, possibly made by local programmers. Like Pet Frog. I can't find that one anywhere! Those I'll definitely extract and upload to archive.org.

What I'm not sure about is some of the utility software. For example, I have cassettes for programmable character set and game graphics editor, loan/mortgage calculator, home inventory, personal finance, VIC typewriter (word processor), space math, biorhythm compatibility, etc.

Are these worth extracting and uploading?

BARCODES! No one cares about 'em. Yet they were once exciting, cutting edge tech. Heck, old computer magazines often had entire sections dedicated to UPC scanning and software. So I finally got a PC barcode reader kit from 1994 and used it with some POS applications! And Duke 3D.

I went to buy a Commodore Vic 20 also for only $20 (unknown state) and the seller offered to sell this to me for "whatever." Currently it has a bad power supply, so I'm in the process of figuring that out.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33941010

Does anyone remember this? I think it was a grayscale image. It was head shot, or upper body (at most) of a woman in a white top. She might have been wearing a hat.

We used to open it in Paintbrush and marvel at how easily we could mess it up with just a few pixels, but could never draw anything like it. I think it was a low-res photo. Any help appreciated!

It is not the picture sometimes described as "jennifer poses in golden shirt".

Edit: ~~It did not appear to be a scan, either~~. It likely only had about three or four colours (white, grey, black).

Edit 2: I think I"ve found the model: Ashley Montana. I wasn't sure if it was a real person or pixel art. It was part or all of this image, minus any text: https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/mKDBF_mMShvBUG92qG6R5Q_6-ps/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2014/02/11/926/n/1922398/758f5e1e3ceb3026_0211_large/i/1991.jpg

The colour palette was significantly reduced too. Thanks for the replies! I'd still like to find the original BMP/GIF that was distributed, if anyone knows it.

Edit 3: Here’s my edit to make it look like how we had it, at least to the best of my memory: https://ibb.co/WN8wZ1K3