“I still look for people with early blogger energy, though — people willing to make an effort to understand the world and engage in a way that isn’t a performance, or trolling, or outright grifting. Enough of them, collectively, can be agents of change.”

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Humongous 68K Collection

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/humongous-68k-collection

I have created a self-booting (System 7.5.5) image with most or all (?) of the 68K compatible games from Humongous Entertainment, complete with a Launcher. This should be a drop-in for any BlueSCSI

#macgarden

Returning to VCF Midwest two years later on LGR!

youtu.be/FTKnv4LoAjY

And wow has it changed. It feels like an almost entirely different show! 66,000 square feet of vintage computers, retro hardware, software, and old school goodness of all kinds. Here's what the show was like (for me) in 2025!

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Columbo in:
SCUMM of the Earth
#pixelart

Forgot to share. The stylus worked perfectly on both FossaPup64 and BionicPup32. The latter had none of 64's issues, but the drawback is the lack of popular apps. May not be a huge issue. This laptop won't be a daily driver. Still cool tho. #retropc #retrocomputing #oldcomputers

FossaPup64 performing great on the Fujitsu Lifebook as well! Though it may need to consider BionicPup32 still. It just wanted something with good performance and Wacom support. #retrocomputing #retropc #oldcomputers #linux

Husband asked if it could sell the Toshiba Satellite T135-S1309. It doesn't want to! At best, with upgrades, it could get... $100-150 for it?? And that's being optimistic.

Or is kin crazy? Would someone really pay $100+ for it all cleaned up and upgraded? #retrocomputing #retropc #oldcomputers

Wow. Kin is impressed! FossaPup64 has already beaten Bodhi just on system level performance on the Toshiba. It comes with some useful apps, not a ton of extras. It's tempted to just stop here. Next test was BionicPup32. But why go 32 if a 64 bit works so well? #Linux #computing

The Bodhi test on the Toshiba Satellite looks promising. Built in mic and cam worked, which antiX struggles to do on a different old laptop. WiFi worked. Overall it was a bit sluggish but useable. Upgrading the ram and maybe swapping for an SSD would help immensely.
Testing Fossapup64 now. 🤓

Joy! The Toshiba lives! Turns out it could boot from usb after all. Now the real challenge... Finding a Linux os that plays nice with it. It has many installed on the ventoy drive.

Linux Lite was too much, so it's trying Bodhi Linux next.

It has a Toshiba Satellite T135-S1309 and a Fujitsu Lifebook T4220 that it wants to breathe back to life. Got for free, with no OS. Currently exploring some lightweight Linux distros to install on these. Will use a Ventoy USB stick to test. Kin is excited!! #retrocomputing #retropc #oldcomputers

New video! A reasonable person would've thrown this out. I am not a reasonable person! Full Restoration of a rusty Commodore 1702:

youtu.be/SQE4ViGvLes

#commodore #restoration #vintagecomputing #retrogaming #retrocomputing #commodore1702 #electronicsrepair

It's new account is made! How nice, now it has a special place to gush about tech unimpeded. 🤓