Thinking more about the #reddit situation and the fact that there are lots of old school retro tech forums out there, which are really awesome, I've made another site!
Hi all, I've read its good etiquette to make an about me post. I've been a tinkerer of things for a long while, been a cybersercurity enthusiast since my teens where I was having fun on lots of BBS' and Datapac.
I'm a big believer in #opensource, FOSS and fostering communities. I've been messing with Linux since the 90s. Huge fan of the movie Hackers.
Today I hack #gibsons for a living! I focus a lot of my work on making tools and giving talks on hacking and pentesting IBM z/OS mainframes. I've published updates for metasploit and #Nmap adding support for z/OS. I also have many more tools on my github.
In my spare time I also maintain my own mainframe distro MVS/CE which I use to teach workshops about mainframe buffer overflows and hacking CICS applications.
I'm also a huge fan of #retrogaming and retrocomputing especially retro hacks.
So, uh, I collect old game controllers - mostly gamepads, but a few joysticks, mice, and weirder things here and there. You can see some of them in the photo below. This collection - and attempting to appropriately document and meaningfully share it - is why I joined Mastodon in the first place. For those of you who follow me for #retrogaming and #retrocomputing stuff but have been cursed by endless 3D printing posts - sorry, the good stuff's coming, I promise. 1/🧵
A friend of mine went to Japan a couple of months ago and brought this beauty back. It's one of the first consoles Nintendo produced and released, back in 1979. And, at least on the outside, it looks in absolutely mint condition 🥰 #retrogaming
Mazeon’s animated pixel tribute to the Commodore Amiga 500.
The Amiga was a revolutionary computer in the 1980s and early 1990s, spawning many software devs, music composers and graphic artists (including myself).
The screen shows a low-res version of the legendary Boing Ball, an early demonstration showing off some of the Amiga’s multitasking power.
If I am elected president in 2024, I promise that we will go back to console add-ons that looked like they were eating the original console. This is my pledge to you. #retrogaming
Just saw a video about this, there was almost an iomega Zip drive from Dreamcast. It was shown at some trade shows and they said it was intended for dlc for games like Phantasy Star Online and Quake III Arena, but was obviously cancelled. #Sega#RetroGaming
"QX82 is a tiny Javascript engine that lets you create games and experiences inspired by the look and feel of a retro 80s computer. It's not an emulator or a fantasy console: it's just a Javascript library."
OC Welcome to /m/fpgagaming!
Hi all, welcome to /m/fpgagaming!...