Who remembers this?
eBay was firm and not polite in rejecting GameStop’s unwanted advances after the smaller company made an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire 100% of eBay. In a letter on May 12, 2026, eBay Chairperson of the Board Paul Pressler told GameStop’s Ryan Cohen that his proposal was “neither credible nor attractive.”
https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2026/05/13/ebay-rejects-gamestops-unwanted-advances/
eBay will begin hiding Apparel & Footwear listings beginning in July unless they conform to its size requirements. eBay informed developers of the change, calling it a Size Standardization Update: "Apparel & Footwear listings with non-standard, missing, or incomplete size information may be blocked or hidden starting July 2026. Normalization begins in June."
https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2026/5/1778860921.html
The Sega Master System and SG-1000 are both 8-bit systems, and both run on a Z80 CPU, yet have wildly different graphical limitations. How can this be? Today we will find out! Interesting note, the Colecvision and first lineup of MSX computers also share incredibly similar hardware to the SG-1000, so anything mentioned here about the SG-1000, also applies to those systems as well (for 99% of all cases anyway).
Classic 7 is Windows 10 LTSC cosplaying as Windows 7
Uncanny rebuild resurrects the 2009 desktop, complete with support, updates, and licensing questions
For those who miss what Windows looked like in 2009, Classic 7 is a heavily modified version of Windows 10 IoT LTSC, reworked to make it look as much as possible like Windows 7, while still being in support and receiving updates.
This has been accomplished thanks to a large compilation of skins, themes, add-ons, tweaks, and so on – some of which are real components from older versions of Windows, adapted and modified to run on Windows 10.
We were not sure whether to cover Classic 7, because while it is impressive and fun, we are not at all sure it is legitimate to use. But we can see a target audience.
Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at what appears to be another insane rambling from a community long abandoned. The GTA community has resorted to astral charts and astronomical science to somewhat determine when Rockstar will release any more info on a game we're all dying to see. Thanks for watching!
When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History often treats tubes as a dead-end technology that was suddenly swept away by the transistor in the 1950s. But the reality is much more interesting. Vacuum tube technology did not simply stop evolving when the transistor appeared. In fact, some of the most sophisticated and technically impressive tube designs emerged after the transistor had already been invented.
During the final decades of mainstream tube development, manufacturers pushed the technology in remarkable directions. Tubes became smaller, faster, quieter, more rugged, and more specialized. Designers experimented with exotic geometries, ceramic construction, metal envelopes, ultra-high-frequency operation, and even hybrid tube-semiconductor systems. Devices such as acorn tubes, lighthouse tubes, compactrons, and nuvistors represented a last gasp of thermionic electronics.
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/11/the-vacuum-tubes-last-stands/
After a seven year hiatus it is once again time for the Pacific Northwest to take on the role of hosting a Vintage Computer Festival. This time the event took place at the Tukwila Community Center on the weekend of May 2nd and 3rd and after multiple years of the Interim Computer Festival we were all excited to see what would happen with a full-blown show.
Carbonyl is a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminal.
It supports pretty much all Web APIs including WebGL, WebGPU, audio and video playback, animations, etc..
It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.
Carbonyl originally started as html2svg and is now the runtime behind it.
Usage
Carbonyl on Linux without Docker requires the same dependencies as Chromium.
Was curious how AI would handle an audio project. I had to measure the frequencies myself to get them dialed in right, and ChatGPT didn't get the semigraphics right. But overall, it did a decent job here.
The result is still a bit rough, but the journey here showed a lot of the challenges in trying to make use of the 6-bit DAC.
Code, binary, CAS and README.TXT with details is available here:
Why Wiby?
In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.
The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance.
Assuming I can get this working properly, is there any way to expand the frequency range, beyond what it does from the factory. I have cleaned some of the pots, so improvement there.
I was going to leave it on 4m calling frequency but I don't think there is anything near me (And I live in a LG flat,so that does not help )
| Type: | HF/VHF/UHF receiver/scanner |
|---|---|
| Frequency range: | 26-88 / 108-180 / 380-514 MHz |
| Tuning steps: | 5 KHz (26-58 and 108-180 MHz)12.5 KHz (58-88 and 380-514 MHz) |
| Frequency stability: | 26-180 MHz: Within 300 Hz380-514 MHz: Within 1 KHz |
| Mode: | AM / FM |
I wish I had sold my AOR 3000 plus years ago.
I Put Lara Croft Into a VGA BIOS from 1995! (BIOS Mod)
In this video, I'll show you the ultimate VGA mod: how to hack a 1995 BIOS to display a custom Lara Croft splash screen on boot.
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Speaker announcement : Professor Steve Furber
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Modern Magic on Vintage NABU Hardware (English)
Talk Description:
The NABU Personal Computer was a Canadian-made 8-bit machine from Ottawa, launched in the early 1980s with a bold vision: delivering software over cable networks to homes—decades before cloud computing became reality. But despite its innovation, the NABU platform disappeared after the company went bankrupt, leaving behind a fascinating glimpse of what could have been.
In this talk, DJ Sures shares how he reverse engineered the NABU’s protocol and hardware, breathing new life into the system with a modern suite of software. From real-time 3D raycasting games and online multiplayer to MP3 playback, live color camera feeds, and a fully interactive cloud-based CP/M operating system—now enhanced with a windowed graphical user interface—DJ demonstrates just how far the NABU can be pushed today.
This is more than retrocomputing—it’s a technical and creative reimagining of what the NABU might have become if its journey hadn’t ended prematurely. Whether you’re a developer, hacker, or vintage computing enthusiast, this is a rare look at modern magic on truly vintage hardware.
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