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**Hacker News** @h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 1. Juli

Hacker News @h4ckernews@mastodon.social

Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack

https://celso.io/posts/2025/06/28/toastrack/

celso.io · 28. JuniRestoring a ZX Spectrum+ ToastrackI talk a lot about Commodore machines in this blog; they left a bigger dent in me growing up, but like most kids of my generation living in Portugal in the 80s, the first computers I played with were actually Sinclairs—first my friend’s ZX81 and then a ZX Spectrum 48K that my parents offered me. I have many memories of playing games like the Horace series, Manic Miner, Jetpac, or Chuckie Egg on my Spectrum.

#HackerNews #Restoring #ZX

**Christoff, the human** @deadbeef@oldbytes.space · 25. Juni *

25. Juni *

Christoff, the human @deadbeef@oldbytes.space

Hey, I'm chasing that early computing life I wasn't able to have myself and was fascinated by, and ultimately what got me into computing and keeps me in computing.

Not ashamed to admit it.

- Working on learning to code #C64 assembly and #8BitComputing in general.
- Working on learning exactly all a #BBS actually is and coding one.
- Reusing existing skillsets for coding/sysadmin/dba/hacker for it, but in this origin story #nostalgia I never got in its entirety.

I saw a tape deck at a 2nd hand store the other day and was reminded of a math teacher showing me it could be used for data storage with computers.

I also feel fortunate that at this stage in my life I'm secure in my career (as much as I can be anyway), so I can relax a little on the hustle of skill improvement solely for work and all that.

**Sidde** @sidde@bitbang.social · 1. Mai

1. Mai

Sidde @sidde@bitbang.social

A new #Mega65 #FPGA Core released today. The 10th Anniversary Edition.

Installed it together with the new rom as my new default and it works great. Lots of bug fixes and improvements.

And a new intro disk to go with the new system software. It's a bundle of new software, demos and games.

#Commodore #8bitcomputing #C65

**Nikhotmsk** @nikhotmsk@vmst.io · 27. Feb.

27. Feb.

Nikhotmsk @nikhotmsk@vmst.io

Being an orga of an event, I can assure you that the UNDEFINED computer arts and homemade electronics festival, that I manage, will indeed happen on March 1. in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. The festival features a lot of #demoscene related stuff, including videocalls to various celebrities and also some programming sessions.

The webpage is here: https://undefined.chaosconstructions.ru/index_en.html

#retro #8BitComputing #demoparty