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OneCore is an incredible project for Windows XP that lets you run modern software on this decades-old operating system. So today, we're gonna throw a few programs at it and see how well it works!

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Spotify, but it's a Pentium II (youtu.be)

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Today we're taking a look at SpotifyXP, a project to bring back Spotify to Windows XP!

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0099 PC keyboard on a Mac Plus, the ultimate C64 RAM test and a NOS 5.25" drive (www.youtube.com)

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It's time for another super mini mail call episode! We have a couple exciting new developments to help us make our old retro computers better. Thanks to everyone who has sent stuff in.

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Someone ported Discord to Windows 95, because why wouldn't you (www.xda-developers.com)

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Nostalgia? Pfft. These 7 retro PCs are still doing serious work today | PCWorld (www.pcworld.com)

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Unofficial Windows on Lumia gains GPU acceleration to x86 apps - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25054188

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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" (www.righto.com)

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This DEC VT100 terminal has some issues | Adrian's Digital Basement (www.youtube.com)

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anyone else doing this? (files.catbox.moe)

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ok idfk where to post this. but uh. i guess here its good because floppies are pretty much only used for retro tech these days??? anyways WHY IS THIS SO SATISFYING...

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Anyone knows what's this on the 5.25" bay? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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Saw this tower at a flea market and I'm wondering what's installed above the 5.25" floppy drive. Does anyone know?

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The Commodore Amiga was perfect (boingboing.net)

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Better Than OPL3? The FM Chip Nobody Talks About (m.youtube.com)

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During its earliest days in development, Windows 1.0 was known by what name? (www.techspot.com)

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Emulate the "line style" spectrum analyzer from Winamp 2 (github.com)

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2025 Museum Support Digital Bundle (rmcretro.store)

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This is a downloadable support bundle for the Retro Collective 2025 museum project work as featured in our episode on YouTube.

All money raised through the sale of this bundle will be used to expand our museum facilities in the garage space. This includes a filming lab, workshop space for large items like arcade cabinets, and a safe inventory storage area to look after the museum artifacts.

By purchasing it you will help us to create the best vintage computer, console, arcade and gaming museum we can while treating yourself to some amazing games, art, music and more from the retro community.

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Martin Donlon's PicoROM Turns a Raspberry Pi RP2040 Into a Gadget for Rapid Vintage ROM Development (www.hackster.io)

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Why We Didn’t Take Screen Grabs in the 1980s (www.worldcadaccess.com)

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Ralph Grabowski was the technical editor of CADalyst magazine in the 1980s. He writes about how they created screenshots of graphical programs of the time

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I tried to make the ultimate Commodore 1702 monitor (youtu.be)

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The Commodore 1702 is one of the best monitors around. The only negative thing about it is the CRT is not very high resolution. Let's try to fix that by swapping in a high-res CRT from a Commodore 1084.

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When IBM Built a War Room for Executives (spectrum.ieee.org)

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The 40 Year History of the Marine Aquarium Screensaver (youtu.be)

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To many, SereneScreen Marine Aquarium screensavers are most well known by the versions for Windows XP. Or perhaps the Aquatic Life version on Roku 4K devices. But there were many more releases and editions in the 2000s, plus a whole history going back 40 years to the Commodore 64 and Amiga days!