Micheal 💽
LightNews LightNews
banner
ecliptik.com
Micheal 💽
@ecliptik.com
220 followers 480 following 400 posts
Cloud operations by day, retrocomputing by night.

Minidisc 💽 | Palm ✋ | Retrocomputing 💾 | Macintosh 🍎 | Linux 🐧 | BSD 😈 | Retrogaming 🕹️| Gopher 🦫 | Smolweb🕸️

gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/ecliptik/
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
ecliptik.com
Micheal 💽 @ecliptik.com · Nov 23
Peak computing

#retrocomputing #macintosh #gunship #linux #afterdark
Workbench with a LCD panel and Macintosh Plus showing the Flying Toasters screensaver, Macbook Pro with Bluesky, Dell Latitude running Linux Mint and a terminal, Sony CRT displaying a frame from the Tech Noir music video by Gunship.
Reposted by Micheal 💽
retrocomps.bsky.social
A demonstration of the miniaturization possible with modern technology, the various cabinets of the UNIVAC I demonstrated that it was possible to fit an entire aisle's worth of racks a computer like the Whirlwind I into a single cabinet. (Source.)
An isometric diagram of a computer room. Along the left wall, four Magentic Tape Units, and one Sort Collate Unit. In the far corner, two general storage drum cabinets, showing magnetic tape. Along the right wall, one General Storage Control Cabinet, one Arithmetic Cabinet, two Program Control Cabinets. In the near corner, one 90-column card control cabinet. Along the near wall, a 90-column card processor. In the very center, an operat's desk, labeled Console System.
February 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
lopatto.bsky.social
in 2026, let's bring back the concept of "selling out" and once again make it contemptible
February 3, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
jcs.org
Wallops 2.2 is out today:

jcs.org/wallops

It can now send @pushover.net notifications when you are mentioned and a screen saver is running
Wallops - A modern IRC client for classic Mac OS
jcs.org
February 2, 2026 at 3:43 PM
ecliptik.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
polpo.org
The PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
PicoIDE
An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers
www.crowdsupply.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
kristenradtke.bsky.social
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
olliehoff.bsky.social
Recently replayed Firewatch, what a game! I miss Campo Santo :(
A screenshot of the main menu of the game Firewatch. A screenshot of gameplay from the video game Firewatch. Player is overlooking a rocky cliff while holding a book.
January 20, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
jcs.org
The result of all that debugging is a 691% speed-up in EtherTalk speed when going over BlueSCSI Wi-Fi

github.com/jcs/BlueSCSI...
network: Send multiple packets in a READ(6), read multiple in WRITE(6) · jcs/BlueSCSI-v2@33eefcb
The Macintosh DaynaPORT driver will combine multiple outgoing packets in a single SCSI WRITE(6), so we have to be able to parse them properly or we'll drop traffic. This was the cause of the a...
github.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:55 PM
ecliptik.com
NetBSD booting

#netbsd #retrocomputing
December 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
ecliptik.com
@actionretro.bsky.social I think you will appreciate this, a modern(ish) OS running on hardware from around the time when The Getup Kids formed. NetBSD 10.1 on a 486.
screenshot of fastfetch for NetBSD 10.1 running on a 486 with 48Mb of memory Gateway 2000 "Family PC" slimline desktop running NetBSD 10.2 Because even a 486 needs a Noctua fan Professional data and power cable management
December 31, 2025 at 7:15 AM
ecliptik.com
@actionretro.bsky.social inspired by your video on Floppinux, I got my modified Gateway 2000 486DX2-66Mhz system running it off a 2.88Mb floppy image on a Gotek floppy emulator.

Extra space allows for a fully featured busybox and more kernel features like networking, framebuffer and ATA support.
December 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
jparish.bsky.social
In the decade-plus I've been making my weekly videos, Rebecca was the only developer to have jumped into my comments to clear up a point I was unclear about—then she graciously agreed to be on the podcast. I found her to be as generous and kind as she was talented. It's truly tragic that she's gone.
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
xythar.bsky.social
this is the most lore doom has ever needed
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
actionretro.bsky.social
This is totally normal
Windows 2000 NvME driver installer Windows 2000 NvME in device manager
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
ecliptik.com
OS/2 Warp is Inviting
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
ecliptik.com
We don't need a Steam Controller, we have a Steam Controller at home.
Beta Steam Controller, bag, sticker and absurdly long USB cable
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
xwinggameseries.bsky.social
Great (and 3 hours long) TIE Fighter Retrospective by Space Cadet Rewind. Nice work!
youtube.com/watch?v=GWo8...

#tiefighter #xwing #starwars #lucasarts #lucasfilmgames #retrogaming #retrogames #retrogamer #dosgaming #dosgames
How TIE Fighter Left X-Wing in the Dust
YouTube video by Space Cadet Rewind
youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
polpo.org
coming soon 😉 - picoide.com
(image made at homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...)
"PICOIDE for IDE EMULATION" in the style of the iconic "ZOHRAN for NEW YORK CITY" campaign sign
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
tokyogamelife.bsky.social
“I love PlayStation.” Ok, then show me you listening to the Gran Turismo soundtrack on the MiniDisc Walkman.
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
barackobama.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
ecliptik.com
Going to play some Pinball.
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ecliptik.com
Yup
October 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
panic.com
Like every business, Panic has a curated, themed playlist that plays in our lobby, emanating office-parkily from a weird rock speaker.

The vibe goal? 80's-corporate, EPCOT center, inspirational slideshow of Apple II quarterly results, slight unease/discomfort, and personal computer optimism.
September 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
caitlinfilms.bsky.social
physical media>than streaming
August 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Reposted by Micheal 💽
mc.frontalot.com
And you can download it in various file formats, but ONLY via FTP. Just for old times' sake. If you don't keep an FTP client installed, try your command line. I bet there's one there.

199.201.145.189
u: nerdcore
p: //_]-[_1_P_]-[_0_P_\\
screenshot: 230 Login successful. ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 150 Here comes the directory listing. -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 28112251 Jul 13 16:45 MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Hip-Hop (25th Anniversary Vocal Re-Record) [44.1].flac -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 39994442 Jul 10 17:01 MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Hip-Hop (25th Anniversary Vocal Re-Record) [44.1].wav -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 5079511 Jul 13 16:47 MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Hip-Hop (25th Anniversary Vocal Re-Record).m4a -r--r--r-- 1 0 0 6050342 Jul 10 17:01 MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Hip-Hop (25th Anniversary Vocal Re-Record).mp3 dr-xr-xr-x 3 0 0 4096 Jul 13 16:55 the hi-res flac is in here 226 Directory send OK. ftp: 610 bytes received in 0.08Seconds 7.63Kbytes/sec. ... I wrote DIR instead of LS because I gotta keep those feelings of impostor syndrome pulsating inside me.
July 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM