#retro software

[gaspardos]

It's raining outside. Your family is watching TV and the computer is free. You open up the image editing software your dad recently installed and want to copy that space pirate girl you saw in your favorite weeaboo magazine. It's a bit hard to draw with the mouse and the loading times of that Pentium MMX processor, but you're happy.

Study of Ryoko Hakubi, from the anime Tenchi Muyo!, Done in Adobe Photoshop 4.0.1 on Windows 95

[alphachromeyayo]

Got a CD-ROM full of glorious 90s FX 💿💥

These effects were apparently used in Duke 3D, wondering if the start of this one was for the octobrain attack 🪼

(apparently this exact effect was also used to fake a UFO vid pretty recently too)

[skwinklesgd]

Cirno fumo in kid pix deluxe 4

[basic-retro-programming]

Post #258: Advanced Bullshit Wizard, First Class Retro Software, 2023.

[greenbreeches]

Bakku No Oni - lovemissile (1999)

[digitalismmm]

How to hide wires in your workplace

[retrogamingblog2]

[n64retro]

[sixofclovers]

fight flight freeze

[acquired-stardust]

Kuon Playstation 2 2004

[zman80]

Computer Metropolis

[gaspardos]

I made some videos capturing Mazecraft, a 1996 software created by Swedish developers Patrik Alm and Bo Ljungberg. Thanks to the user Whengreg who uploaded it to Archive dot org and I was able to get it working in a Windows 95 emulation.

[river-taxbird]

Have you got an old Mac that is no longer supported by Apple? It's time to give it a new life.

How to install the latest MacOS on Mac hardware that is no longer officially supported using OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

I recently discovered this and it has been a game changer. Recently my partner needed a Mac for her music course, so we bought a 2012 Macbook Pro as it was cheap and on paper still had decent hardware for working with music. We were then disappointed to find out that it is no longer supported by Apple, and therefore can't run the latest version of Logic, which she needed to inter-op with the school comptuers. Just as we thought we had bought a less than useful computer, I found this video about OpenCore Legacy Patcher from Youtuber Action Retro.

It's a community made piece of software that allows you to install the latest version of MacOS on any Intel Mac, from the late 2000s onwards. All you need to do is download the application on a mac, it will then allow you to make a bootable USB drive for any version of MacOS you want, and you just need to choose the specific mac you are targeting from a list, and it "blesses" the bootable drive, allowing you to install it on your unsupported mac using the normal install process.

I tried it and it it worked perfectly on the 2012 Macbook Pro, and the latest version of MacOS Sonoma is running perfectly well on the 12 year old hardware. It also allowed us to install the latest version of Logic, so it's working great.

Props to the team for making this and allowing hardware that would otherwise be e-waste to continue to be usable with the modern internet and software. If you end up using it, please consider donating to the team as apparently they had to jump through some serious technical hoops to get this working. Here is the link again if you need it: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

[mushroomyhouse]

NFTs? AI? What the hell is a Crypto???????? I miss simpler times 😢

Go back to the days of dial up and CD-ROMs 🥹 Old computer washi tape!

💾mush.house/margotfink💽

[digitalismmm]

Eyes in the sky

[awwfulsounds]

Microsoft Office Professional + Bookshelf CD-ROMs designed for Windows 95 1995 (x)