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I'm currently cooking up PicoIDE, a hardware IDE/ATAPI emulator, launching on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide I also made PicoGUS: https://picog.us Also on Fedi at https://chaos.social/@polpo In Colorado, USA
A grid of 9 video game artworks: Katamari Damacy Disco Elysium Tetris Effect Outer Wilds Wing Commander Wipeout XL Super Metroid Celeste Shadow of the Colossus
Here are my #9games which are all over the map. my9games.com
Wowwwww!
A dithered black and white dot matrix printout of a tuxedo cat with a “breaking news” style chyron with the text URGENT / Cat / meow meow meow meow meow …
Best print I’ve gotten on #GlobalTalk so far this year #meowmeowmeow
Friend to Macintoshes everywhere @mac84.bsky.social has put the PicoIDE through a gauntlet of vintage IDE-equipped Macs (and a couple PCs for good measure)! See how it fared: youtu.be/e00F8KIFc6A
Attempting to follow everyone active in the IBM PCjr community - if you see this, let's get connected. #PCjr
@gutbomb.net is about to premiere a video featuring the PCjr youtu.be/BkrHsFHXhDE
Good on ya for putting in the effort!
I have no way to convey how strange it is for me to be able to see this from an FPGA.
The “Introduction to Computer Programming” book on the bottom there was what got me into programming when I got it from the library as a kid. Literally changed my life.
PicoIDE is a bit of a special case because the PCBAs are being made and the device is being assembled in the EU. So people there may actually get a better deal buying from a seller where the product doesn’t leave then return to the EU…
Yep, Crowd Supply will continue to sell it, and other sellers like JCM-1 in the US, Flamelily in the UK, and Serdashop in the EU will start carrying it!
$300k with 9 hours to go! 😵💫#PicoIDE www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
hey Alice!
That's awesome to hear you'll be trying some out!
I'd like to offer that kind of kit in the future. When it could become available, I don't know. The demand would be pretty small, though - if you look at the "X claimed" numbers at the bottom of the Crowd Supply campaign page, you'll see not many people are buying the Base version!
YouTube thumbnail of a 90s PC on a desk running Quake with the text "O.D.E. for PC" overlaid and an obligatory Big Red Arrow.
New Video: The PicoIDE is a brand new IDE optical and hard drive emulator for classic computers. Based on the Raspberry Pi RP2350 and ESP32, it's easy to use, open source, low cost, fully featured, and set to be an absolute game changer for the vintage computing hobby.
youtu.be/MG_t0Ti3_rY
As the #PicoIDE campaign on Crowd Supply enters its final hours (www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...), @ctrl-alt-rees.com has come out with a fantastic video all about the PicoIDE! And wow it looks good in that baby AT case. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_t...
LGR has a video out covering my #PicoIDE project and the ZuluIDE. We are officially in a awesome new era of drive emulators!
youtu.be/td6QdOnMvnk
Fresh new hardware for aging old computers on LGR!
youtu.be/td6QdOnMvnk
The ZuluIDE and PicoIDE optical drive emulators replace your old CD/DVD drive with a MicroSD card solution for loading ISOs, including support for Redbook CD digital audio! Among other features like virtual hard disks and more
I wish my cats would do this! They merely tolerate one another at best.
Someone is REALLY unhappy that I woke them up after too many years in storage for #MARCHintosh . 😬
Image of a board screwed to a metal plate showing a power line with a cord coming off it on stark black and white, there is a gold pattern lines across the image and the image is on a white painted background on the board
now seems like a good time to post my new piece
Binding Spell Against The Internet #1: Fiber To The Home
IR photograph, screen print of XY display, ink transfer onto acrylic
I literally said "wow" out loud
A Macintosh SE/30, a compact all in one Mac with 9” black and white screen. It’s running The Print Shop and a certificate design is on the screen
A printed out copy of the certificate, saying “Certificate of ImageScribbler ownership / presented to Eric’s Edge by Polpo” with a pixelly illustration of a ringed planet and shooting star
If you have an ImageScribbler and have it online on #GlobalTalk, let me know and I’ll print you an official certificate of ownership designed in The Print Shop from my Mac SE/30!
The insides of an InageWriter II dot matrix printer with a PCB inside - that’s the ImageScribbler card.
Want a hardware-y way to get your ImageWriter II up on #GlobalTalk in time for #MARCHintosh? Last year I reverse engineered Apple’s LocalTalk option card and made the design available, naming it ImageScribbler: github.com/polpo/images...
and pre-built ones are for sale: jcm-1.com/product/imag...
Instead of turning a clock into a vintage Mac, I turned a vintage Mac into a clock!, I though it would be fun given its #MARCHintosh The program can be downloaded here: github.com/retrotheory/...
It supports US/EU month day order AM/PM, Invert display, 'grey' background and alarm function
Yeah, that's the challenge. Do you match against a pristine unyellowed beige or shoot for average state of yellowing? It's hard to decide 😅
A beige PicoIDE sitting in front of a fanned out book of color swatches opened to various shades of gray/beige
FINALLY found my Pantone books. Now I can dial in the final color match for the #PicoIDE enclosure and buttons. I’m thinking of a darker beige for the buttons for some contrast, since a perfect match is basically impossible due to different materials.
A dot matrix printout of a WSJ dot style “hedcut” portrait of John Sculley
And here is a beautiful portrait of the man himself:
A Macintosh SE/30 showing the Finder with a number of different AppleTalk zones, with my zone “the polpo zone” selected, with a printer called ImageScribbler selected
A dot matrix printout on tractor feed paper. It’s a letter/memo. Contents: Apple Computer Inc., Adranced Technology Group News Dear Apple Evangelists, During the past several weeks, it has come to my attention an extraordinary amount of information and rumor about Apple has been appearing in local newspapers, trade and business publications and posted in on-line newsgroups. Although there's usually some truth in most everything that's printed about Apple, rumors both inside and outside of Apple are surfacing more frequently these days. I’d like to take a moment to clarify these zumors and set the record straight
One day before the start of #MARCHintosh and the polpo zone and its ImageWriter II are back on #GlobalTalk! About 5 minutes after getting online I got a letter from John Sculley himself. I’m honored