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So my friend @FlemishDog had their youtube channel suspended a while back, but thanks to some scripting (and mailing a 2tb internationally!) we've now got all 7,623 videos back online.https://archive.org/details/flemishdog

Time to do some serious reading BEYOND! the BASIC Data Segment when you're loading your BINARY CODE into RAM, remember to store it as integers and not floating point arrays.Why?

oh noI have tons of fake keyboards but no fake mouseam I going to have to make a fake mouse? I'm trying to control a program automatically and naturally it

The clever bit of the heads of a double-sided 3.5" floppy drive:The heads aren't aligned with each other, they're offset by a little bit This is done for a few

MAGAZINE TIME!This time we're going for the UK magazine PC Review from May 1992. https://archive.org/details/PC_Review_Issue_7_1992-05_EMAP_Images_GB The Gravis PC Mousestick! it's a mouse! it's a Joystick! weird. Really it'

Because @FlemishDog complained, I redrew this icon using the official Tetris Colors. https://twitter.com/win_icons/status/1265991217419972608 because yeah, if you didn't know, there's an official set of guidelines which all Tetris g

BTW, the use of these various connectors by hismith means you can get cursed adapters like this, which are XLR on one end and quick air connector on the other

OK SO you know how I talk a lot about weird misuses of connectors on aliexpress and such?I have found the worst one. Brace yourself, this is NSFW... SO... imagine

Today's magazine we're looking at is PC Magazine, from January 1995! Forgot to post the link.https://archive.org/details/pc-magazine-best-products-of-1994-jan-1995 Here's ATI offering their 64bit graphics accelerators. These are

it's time for some random old computer magazine postingToday we're going to Byte, from March 1992.https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1992-03 Pinacle is advertising their rewritable optical drive, which is a 3.5" disc. It

Ever wonder how superfloppy drives like the zip drive and LS-120 (shown here) are able to stuff so much data in the same form factor as a 1.44mb disk?Here's inside

I've wondered into the section of youtube where they're taping bananas. I need an adult It's actually a Big Clive video on how you can test if something is a