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This is a downloadable support bundle for the Retro Collective 2025 museum project work as featured in our episode on YouTube.

All money raised through the sale of this bundle will be used to expand our museum facilities in the garage space. This includes a filming lab, workshop space for large items like arcade cabinets, and a safe inventory storage area to look after the museum artifacts.

By purchasing it you will help us to create the best vintage computer, console, arcade and gaming museum we can while treating yourself to some amazing games, art, music and more from the retro community.

Ralph Grabowski was the technical editor of CADalyst magazine in the 1980s. He writes about how they created screenshots of graphical programs of the time

The Commodore 1702 is one of the best monitors around. The only negative thing about it is the CRT is not very high resolution. Let's try to fix that by swapping in a high-res CRT from a Commodore 1084.

To many, SereneScreen Marine Aquarium screensavers are most well known by the versions for Windows XP. Or perhaps the Aquatic Life version on Roku 4K devices. But there were many more releases and editions in the 2000s, plus a whole history going back 40 years to the Commodore 64 and Amiga days!

Cool project to pull together all kinds of retro hardware documentation

Who is ready for a true "long form" diagnostic and repair video? This SCAT386SX motherboard had one of the most difficult to find faults I've dealt with. I wanted to give up on it, but I kept at it.

All notes on the jumper and switch configuration has been saved to The Retro Web.

The Family BASIC keyboard was a peripheral that was built for programming on the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom. As [Linus Åkesson] demonstrates, though, it can do so much more. Meet the Family Bass.

The core of the project is a special adapter which [Linus] created to work with the Family BASIC keyboard. Traditionally, the keyboard plugs into the Famicom’s expansion port, but [Linus] wanted to hook it up to the controller port on a Nintendo Entertainment System instead. Getting them to talk was achieved with an ATtiny85 which could cycle through the 72-key matrix in the keyboard and spit out a serial stream of data the controller port could understand.

Scientists have just resurrected "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well.

Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these "software archaeologists" discovered defunct code that had been lost for 60 years and brought it back to life.

Opinion Windows 1 and 2 flopped almost as badly as OS/2 did. How did Microsoft stage one of the greatest comebacks ever with Windows 3?

Earlier this month, we took a look at how Microsoft learned important lessons from the failure of OS/2, even though less than a decade later, it had already started forgetting what went wrong and why. Such organizational amnesia has a long history. For instance, in the middle of the 1700s, the Royal Navy worked out how to cure scurvy, but by the end of the 1800s, it had forgotten again.

via https://www.osnews.com/story/141484/one-dog-v-the-windows-3-1-graphics-stack/