Oliver Klink (kolli)
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It's all about vintage computers. Collecting, repairing, using, showing. I'm not particularly a gamer per se. More interested in old hardware, old OS, using obsolete tech like dot matrix printers, modems, rotary phones. Like to go to retrocomputing events.
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Intruder Alert!, #Atari8bit computers game for BASIC 10Liner Contest 2025. Gameplay: youtu.be/PsbD_jUDYLY Info & Download: www.vitoco.cl/atari/10line... #atari #retrogames #BASIC
Yes sure. That's possibly all my fault...
And they're much more entertaining than the grumpy one that most of the time only recycles existing content...
It's been some years now that I got my Intellivision. I own only 5 game cartridges and have been dreaming of a multicart ever since. But I wasn't willing to buy the RTO for over € 100. Now I've built a PiRTO II. That's a cheap and simple project based on PI Pico. Happy! 🤩
Atari ST help: Here's the URL with the download link of the 1GB HDD image I mentioned in my Youtube comment.
atari.8bitchip.info/DiskImgPP1.h...
Be aware that booting this up only shows icon of drive C. Drives D and E are there but you have to add the icons to the desktop by yourself.
Image of DOS/TOS disk
Disk image with SW
atari.8bitchip.info
I've bought some old literature!
First edition in German from 1982.
For a long time I was wondering if I would like this classic. And if I should read the English original or the German translation.
When it turned up for cheap I thought I'll give it a try now.
Oh wow! 😱 I'm envious...
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Long persistence green phosphor is a thing of beauty.

The deep green color can't properly be captured by the camera.

The slow fade of the image when it changes is magical.
I only have very few games cartridges and it's not easy to find other games for a reasonable price in Germany. Apart from the 2 player sports games I don't like that is...
But at least I have some of the other great classics like Frogger and Q*Bert! 😍
From time to time you have to get things from your collection out and try if they still work!
This time I took my Intellivision. Still working fine what a relief! 🤩 Especially as I want to build a Pico based multicart for it in the near future.
Well I like the red machines that came from different manufacturers. But in the end it's only cosmetics. MSX is MSX is MSX (mostly). 😉
MSX goodness and an Oric 1!
It's not that common to see 2 Mega 65 and 2 Apple IIc at the same event here in Germany!
For the Bubble Bobble highscore competition you had to play it on 3 different computers. The Commodore C128 (in C64 mode), the Commodore Amiga and the Atari ST. Incidentally all those came to the market in 1985. That's 'XL' years ago.
Interface XL
Doesn't stand for extra large interface, but for the 40th 'Interface' retrocomputing event that happened yesterday in Klausdorf near Kiel, Germany!
Mostly four times a year happening since around 2013. Couldn't find out exactly.
More photos coming up...
How did the SmartPortSD project go on? Well, in the end I made two of them. Had a wrong firmware on the Arduino at first. Took some time to diagnose. Then I had to print my own DB19 plug because a standard one won't fit the Apple.
Oddly enough there were a lot of MSX machines on display...
The event was themed 'emulation on vintage and modern computers'. So I showed my emulation work horse from back then, the Atari ST. Got some emulators running on it: Spectre Macintosh emu, TRS-80 emu, ZX Spectrum emu and PC Ditto software emulation of an XT class PC...
Auto correction hit again. It's meant to be 'is a' but not 'ISA'!
February has begun and this ISA month with no less than 3 retro events for me.
Started already at the 'connected' in Uetersen, Germany, yesterday.
Pictures following...
Aladin, a Macintosh emulator for the Atari ST
What am I doing? Building a SmartPortSD drive for my Apple IIc. I want to be able to use the Total Recall image, a menu driven games collection.
Project site of SmartPortSD: https://github.com/djtersteegc/smartportsd