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polpo, 12 days ago to random

And that's it! I am finally sold out of PicoGUSes on Tindie. I do not plan on selling any more myself. Instead get your PicoGUS from these fine sellers:
Joe's Computer Museum - 🇺🇸 USA based, ships worldwide. In stock: https://jcm-1.com/product/picogus-v2/
Serdashop - 🇪🇺 EU based, ships worldwide. Bundles with DreamBlaster MIDI wavetable cards available. In stock: https://www.serdashop.com/PicoGUS
Flamelily IT - 🇬🇧 UK based, ships worldwide. Coming soon, preorders open: https://shop.flamelily.co.uk/picogus

polpo, 13 days ago to random

In my abundant free time, I want to make a phone app optimized for taking photo or video of CRTs, with quick access to shutter speeds of 1/25, 1/29.97, 1/30, 1/50, 1/59.94, and 1/60 of a second. I've tried so many camera apps with manual settings and each one has annoyances or too many settings.

polpo, 16 days ago to random

So this is what happens when you use compressed air to clean toner out of a laser printer drum unit

polpo, 16 days ago to random

I love 3D printing 🥰

polpo, 19 days ago to random

European folks: Serdashop now has #PicoGUS in stock! Ships from Belgium which should save you shipping cost, time, and import duty. He also lets you bundle one of his awesome wavetable synth modules that can plug right onto the connector on the PicoGUS. https://www.serdashop.com/PicoGUS

polpo, 22 days ago to random

So yesterday I restocked my very last batch of #PicoGUS 2.0 cards on my Tindie store: https://www.tindie.com/products/polpo/picogus-sound-card-emulator-for-isa-retro-pcs/ Once I’m out, I’m out. I’m passing the job of selling cards over to other capable established sellers, such as:
🇺🇸 Joe’s Computer Museum: https://jcm-1.com/product/picogus-v2/
🇪🇺 Serdashop: https://serdashop.com/
🇬🇧 Flamelily IT: https://shop.flamelily.co.uk/picogus
All ship worldwide!

polpo, 26 days ago to demoscene

For the latest issue of Make Magazine, I wrote a feature article about #PicoGUS! The online version of the article is now up. Come read about my beginnings as a teenage #demoscene fan, how I was introduced to the GUS and how I decided to make an emulator for it so many years later. https://makezine.com/article/technology/computers-mobile/democratizing-the-demoscene-picogus-brings-the-90s-tracker-sound-to-the-masses/

polpo, 1 month ago to random

Hey. Do you want to order a #PicoGUS? Like RIGHT NOW? Joe's Computer Museum now has them in stock! https://jcm-1.com/product/picogus-v2/

polpo, 1 month ago to random

So I just discovered that someone that is not me registered picogus.com. That is VERY much not cool. It currently redirects to the official site (https://polpo.org/picogus) but who knows what they can change that to in the future. I thought about registering it but guess whoever it is beat me to it. #PicoGUS

polpo, 1 month ago to random

Howdy folks! I'm tonight's guest on Retro Repair Roundup. Join me with hosts Javier, Joe, Ron, and Trina as we talk about PicoGUS and whatever else comes up!

SOUND UP - Talkin' PicoGUS with Ian Scott - you're gonna wanna hear all about it.
Tonight at 8:00pm Eastern!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFSYf-d8-7Q

polpo, 1 month ago to random

We now have WiFi on the #PicoGUS emulating an ne2000 card! yyzkevin (who did the SB DSP work released a while ago) was responsible for this with a bit of help from me between days here at #VCFEast. Awesome!

The login screen of the Retro32 telnet BBS
The Pocket386 handheld PC with a PicoGUS Femto plugged into the back. There are debug cables plugged into it

polpo, 1 month ago to random

On the way down to #VCFEast from the airport I stopped at the old Bell Labs building designed by Eero Saarinen. It’s been repurposed as a work/play/shop space and it’s really nice. It’s great that this amazing space is open to the public. As a design/architecture nerd and fan of the show Severance which is filmed here, I’m totally geeking out.

The reception area of the building, which is in a section sunk down into the floor a few feet. It’s lined by padded couches upholstered in green leather atop granite.
Glass tubular elevators inside the building. All the metalwork is painted black. A fountain is below.

polpo, 1 month ago to random

Just put 25 PicoGUSes in consignment at #VCFEast. Come and get ‘em tomorrow!

polpo, 2 months ago to random

I'll be at #VCFEast in a couple days and I'm stoked! I'll be bringing #PicoGUS 2.0 boards to sell there, so if you've been wanting one and you'll be there, it'll be your best chance to get one.

polpo, 2 months ago to random

This is one of my favorite weird mice: a Bluetooth combo mouse and number pad with built in calculator, made by Canon. There’s a button you can use to send the result of your calculations to the computer.

polpo, 2 months ago to random

My favorite e-waste place (Earthbound Recycling in Eureka MO - I don’t even live in the state but I go when visiting family) has an in-box IBM 5150 with MDA monitor and keyboard. It looks like the bottom tier spec one that doesn’t even have floppy drives.

Inside one of the boxes, the original IBM PC. There’s a weird large blanking plate where the floppy drives usually are.
Looking in the box the keyboard came in - it’s an IBM Model F. It’s packed in the original styrofoam.

polpo, 2 months ago to random

The new #Pocket386 is keeping it real with the #PicoGUS Femto! It plugged right in and was ready to rock right away. Playing Keep it Real by Soda7, the massive track from the Deep Meet Amiga demo released at Revision 2024

A small laptop-like computer with a couple speakers, playing a tracker mod file. I flip the screen down so you can see the small PicoGUS board plugged into the back of it

polpo, 2 months ago to retrocomputing

Kevin Moonlight just released a video demonstrating his Pi Pico-based PCMCIA card that can emulate NE2000 over Wi-Fi, serial port, and Sound Blaster for retro laptops, handhelds, and other computers. He's gauging interest in the project for a future build, so if you're interested in one there's a link in the description to a form.
Kevin is great, he was responsible for the bulk of the SoundBlaster DSP support that was just released on #PicoGUS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoJ12leojwo
#retrocomputing #pcmcia

polpo, 2 months ago to random

I went to buy this weird luggable 486 PC with Trinitron monitor and the seller also had a Compaq Portable so I had to just get it too. As soon as I opened each one up to take photos, my cat Oscar decided they were his and jumped on top of them.

The same cat sitting on top of a different luggable PC, this time a Compaq Portable. He is also looking down at it.

polpo, 2 months ago to random

The "Book386" (a Hand386 in the Book8088 case) that I've long wanted was just released (called the Pocket 386)! https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805356267711.html

polpo, 2 months ago to random

This is a big one! After being teased for a long time, #PicoGUS now supports Sound Blaster 2.0! https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v1.2.0

polpo, 2 months ago to random

#PicoGUS firmware v1.1.0 is released and is avaiable at https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v1.1.0 !

This release fixes a tricky hardware bug that affects ~10% of PCM510xA DAC chips that results in silent audio at 22.05kHz sampling rate.
It also adds an experimental mode that runs the GUS emulation at fixed 44.1kHz, similar to an Interwave (experimental because it's not perfect in all titles – for example it stutters in Doom).

polpo, 2 months ago to random

Just got my signed copy of @jmechner’s graphic novel memoir Replay in the mail today! I’m not sure what I should do first, play Prince of Persia or read the book…

polpo, 3 months ago to random

Can’t wait to use the new, high-performance network software included with this Macintosh LC Ethernet card to get this Performa 400 online as my new #GlobalTalk router

polpo, 3 months ago to random

Not sure why it took me so long to realize I could browse #GlobalTalk on my iMac G4 running MacOS 9.2. Much more screen real estate than the SE/30 (which is still being the router) 😅