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sponge @goodass.dog · 31/08/2026

i'm back (temporarily)! quakec source for dawn of the machine is now up github.com/id-Software/...

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Add Dawn of the Machine (mg3) source · id-Software/quake-rerelease-qc@634eefa

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sponge @goodass.dog · 06/08/2026

the two last things i worked on were released/announced today. the 30th quake update with dawn of the machine, and the evercade doom port. the quake update also includes an id vault with a lot of in development quake material, almost all of it seen for the first time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uf4...

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Quake: Dawn of the Machine — Launch Trailer

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Installed a mcdom ode in my FM-Towns HC. The drive it came with was spotty at best so this is a welcomed upgrade 🙏

Disassembled FM-Towns HC computer. The CD-ROM drive has been replaced with an optical disc emulator.

FM-Towns pc powered showing a disc image being loaded on the optical disc emulator.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Got some Ecowitt weather sensors which pair well with home assistant. As a result I spent the day making a dashboard because I think they’re neat

Home Assistant dashboard giving an overview of the weather for my home

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I use my TI voyager 200 almost daily for work. I know the calculator enough that it is easier than loading a browser and fighting wolfram alpha. For documentation I have a TRS model 100 that I draft on and send over serial to my work pc. I prefer the focus it provides as I get stir crazy writing.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I learned today that you CAN reset x68000 sram using only command.x: ぺけ -BASIC もデバッガも持ってこれない場合は、COMMAND.X が動いていて書き込めるディスクがあれば、次のコマンドを実行することで SRAM の全体をゼロクリアできます。 >echo ｹD2Dp~F@NO(@CﾔH{@\(_PﾜQﾜ${@T&{@T`V`&`F01(JﾕﾊﾕﾌRJ(KﾗﾋﾗﾋﾗﾌSK6ｼ110;@62;@2ﾐ@ﾐABZS@dﾒ6ｼ22p~F@NOBCRCﾆ;2ﾅgﾀBAVApｬNONuU､UU3aﾆiｵU`ｮ>a.r >a

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Thanks to @leadedsolder.com ‘s #x68000 pro pico psu pcb my machine has a nice and modern power supply! It also grounds the machine properly for the 5-15P cable that was used for power. I’ve been putting this project off for around 5 years so I’m glad to have it done!

Replacement power supply for a Sharp X68000 using a PicoPSU. PCB was designed by leaded solder. It has been wire up and placed in the chassis of the original power supply.

Close-up picture showing the wiring for the AC power into a 12V DC Meanwell power supply.

Showing the earth ground termination on the power cable. This allows for the three prongs on a US power cable to work with the X68000 properly.

Booting HumanOS off of a floppy to verify the machine still functions.

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Tim Nicholls @woodpunk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I radically improved arcadeRTFM.com this week. It's now a fully indexed archive of arcade repair/operator manuals plus schematics. It has details for 7,800+ arcade machines and 2,400+ manuals. You can search by game, manufacturer, year or even chip! Share it wherever you think it might be useful.

Screenshot of the Arcade Manual Archive website arcadeRTFM.com (dark mode) showing detailed technical specifications for the classic Sega Out Run arcade machine (sitdown/upright Rev B, 1986). The page includes hardware specs (2x Motorola MC68000 @ 10 MHz, Zilog Z80 @ 4 MHz), raster horizontal display (320×224 at 60.05 Hz), audio chips (YM2151 OPM and Sega PCM), controls (1 player, steering paddle, pedal, 1 button, 2 coin slots), a full DIP switch settings table for coin credits, cabinet type, demo sounds, time adjustment and difficulty, plus links to downloadable service manuals and schematics. Site header reads 'ARCADE MANUAL ARCHIVE' with stats 7,821 machines and 2,405 service manuals; search term 'out run' is active.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

jensen huang with dlss 5 enabled

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barleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"Dreamcast", a haiku Each day he rises. Asks me, "Is it still launch day?" "Yes," I lie. "Always."

My Dreamcast asking me to set the date, and showing the Japanese launch date of 27th of November 1998.

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Shane Lynch @shanelynch.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I'm working on something with @billytimegames.bsky.social for MiSTer users to check out Sega Channel.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

the latest reason i had to do a full reload of 24h2 on the vewlix: when exclusive mode audio is enabled it becomes a pc speaker

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I noticed that the improvements on PicoGUS to support multiple cards in one machine hasn't been finished. Previously someone had mentioned that my build helped them, so I made a release of it on Github. github.com/sammargh/pic... This version will allow a second PicoGUS to be only MPU-401/Joycard

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Releases · sammargh/picogus

Emulation of ISA sound cards on Raspberry Pi Pico (GUS, Adlib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS) - sammargh/picogus

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

so the ebay app had a moment this morning on my ipad

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

for mario’s anniversary here’s a video of one of the earliest nintendo emulators i can find on the internet. this is pasofami for the fm-towns released in 1994!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/09/2025

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Turns out osx kitty is a getty image as are a lot of the default early osx profile pictures www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo...

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Portrait of a Cat

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I got a new (to me) smoker from a friend yesterday and set the app up today. I’m happy with the nickname I selected for the Pit Boss 💃

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Experiment T @experimentt.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

First screenshots of the first ever Pioneer LaserActive emulator, courtesy of Nemesis running as part of Ares. Major preservation milestone right here.

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 05/07/2025

Last night I got access to a digitized film reel from 1969 that shows off a computer artillery game called Potshot. And to explain why that’s a big deal, I need to talk about Dartmouth and the BASIC computer language.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

lucy hopes you have a safe and happy holiday weekend

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Oh! Egg on my face! I was going to use my Wii U.

Nintendo Switch 2 console with game from Nintendo’s web store stating that the product is only for use with the Nintendo Switch 2.

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 24/05/2025

implemented a script for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer that lets you discover the connectivity of any IC with JTAG boundary scan, provided you can give the IC an arbitrary stimulus (here done by using a glasgow output connected to a needle point probe)

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 18/05/2025

#PicoGUS can now emulate both a CDROM drive and Sound Blaster in parallel, smoothly playing both CD audio and SB sound effects simultaneously. Still a lot of polish to do before a new firmware release but I'm excited!! This is MechWarrior 2 with bin/cue stored on a USB stick plugged into the PicoGUS

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

this was a default user profile image you could select in osx since the early days and i often wonder who osx kitty is. at some point i had found a high resolution picture of the cat but it was never attributed

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 26/04/2025

The link below is an email conversation that took place between ex-WMS engineers during COVID. Someone in the group asked about the history of the old systems and their acronyms. And this is what came out. Enjoy! github.com/lkoziarz/pin...

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Chris Johnston, aka “CJ” @superpac.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Embracing the meme caption that I wrote in EGM 30 years ago. 🤓

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ateam @dreamcastforever.com · 19/04/2025

Fellow translation patch developers, I'm proud to announce the v1.0 release of TextSleuth, my brute-force search utility to identify non-standard text encoding formats. It supports multi-threading and a host of useful options, like wildcards! DOWNLOAD: github.com/DerekPascare...

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

in-laws were having problems with their corporate wordpress install and asked if i’d look. “i can probably help but been nearly 2 decades since touching wordpress but sure i’ll try” is this some sort of schrodinger’s cat plugin or what the fuck?

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arabiafats🇵🇸 (fear of a fat arab planet) @arabiafats.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

men want one thing and it's disgusting

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Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com · 22/03/2025

The next thing you were handed as a pinball programmer at Williams was the development system. This was your companion cube for the duration of the project. This was the WPC successor to the System 11 debugger named BLACK FLAG. The WPC version was called ORKIN (after the exterminating company).

Photo of the Arabian Nights whitewood with an ORKIN development system hanging off the edge of the backbox.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“welcome to vegas! wanna play iidx?”

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

meal prepping for the week

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I’m installing FreeBSD 2.1.0 to my PC-9821AS. It has 14MB ram and Canopus PowerWindow 928G so XFree86 should work well on it! Funny enough the installer sees the full 16GB HD but appears to only like the first 2991MB. This is a common problem on early OSes, Win9x can’t handle large partitions well.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This is a really great post and worth the read

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

made sourdough chocolate chip scones for my coworkers

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Martin Donlon @wickerwaka.com · 28/01/2025

The PicoROM is now available FOR SALE on my Tindie store www.tindie.com/products/pbr... Be the first kid on your block to own your very own RP2040-based ROM emulator.

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PicoROM by Peanut Butter Retro on Tindie

8-Bit ROM Emulator for testing and rapid development.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

installed a remote start module into my car today! look out world i am feeling accomplished!!

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Hoffman @h0ffman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

SHIP IT! Shinobi - NeoGeo port is now available for download via the link below. h0ffman.itch.io/shinobi-neogeo Enjoy!

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Shinobi - NeoGeo Port by Hoffman

Shinobi - Neo Geo

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

sega lindbergh is linux.. so why not load it natively? playing arcade outrun sp2 natively on steam deck

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Saw in the new Indy game they rendered Alden’s Indy boot so I had to see how true the model is. Turns out spot on! They even got the heel properly, and it appears there is a 2ND pair of shoes Indy wears. A plain toe blucher with brass eyelets, and a last that is part of the footbalance ecosystem!

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