blackcharcz

Floppy disk backup station featuring 5.25" and 2.5" floppy disk drives.

Last weekend, I was at representing @hernihistorie.bsky.social at ByteFest, a Czech meet for 8-bit microcomputer affectionados. And I was working there saving old data from bitrot by digitizing floppies!

Here's mine. Only starting to get into RA, but it would be neat to have someone to chase after 😁

I just upgraded my Anbernic to newest muOS version and moved my Retroarch setup from Switch. While testing, I found out that there are some romhacks that even have #retroachievements support and had to give it a try. Pokemon Adventures is one of neater ones I came across. Walkthrough comes in handy!

I was refurbishing my old #3dprinter and wanted to get some parts on the cheap. So I got a last spool from clearance sale. Wasn't sure about the color at first but I gotta say it looks 𝓕𝓪𝓫𝓾𝓵𝓸𝓾𝓼

(2/2) ... digitizing and archiving all we can, with the intent to publish everything after clearing it with original owner. There's mostly printed documents and home computers, but also a lot of custom hardware and some software never before seen in Czechia, let alone the world.

(1/2) For context - in gamearchive.cz (sorry, English website is very much WIP), we were donated a motherlode of materials from a homebrew computer club operating in the 80s - a wonderful snapshot of computing and gaming history behind the Iron curtain. We're currently going through the archive, ...

Let's start with something I'm currently working on - trying to stretch my proverbial #retrocomputing fingers. Desktop PC from 2010s trying to communicate with 1997 SCSI tape drive in order to - hopefully - dump data from tapes going all the way to early 90s. First test looking good.

Hello world! 👋 Decided to give another chance to social networking, after near-decade-long hiatus. First finding: Instead of writing a self-review at my day job, I installed a private BlueSky server. Getting into habit of *writing* about stuff in addition to *doing* stuff will be tough.