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Kinda impressed that this old brick still (mostly) works 😄

It was my very first computer that I got from my dad for playing around with when I was 8 years old after he bought a new one for himself.
Has an Intel 486DX2 with 50 MHz, 4MB Ram and a 340 MB hard drive inside .

Unfortunately the floppy drive seems to be somewhat broken...

Cool blog post on Leaded Solder (one of my favorite blogs), where they make a space shooting game with Nintendo Family BASIC on the Famicom.

From unboxing to programming to the finished video of the game on YouTube, everything is carefully pictured, linked and documented-- an amazing post that really shows why I dig this blog so much.

leadedsolder.com/2025/03/11/fa

Leaded Solder · Let’s Make A Space Shooter With Nintendo Family BASICNintendo’s Famicom game console had an implementation of the BASIC programming language available for the system. The Family BASIC cartridge is studied, and a space shooter game is programmed with it.

'The cover of MAD magazine No. 258 from October 1985 announces a “special computer section featuring the MAD Computer Program”.'

Somebody typed in all the source-code to draw your own vectorised Alfred E. Neuman on your 8-bit microcomputer of choice, so you can render it yourself. They also explained all the Sergio Aragones cartoons in the margins, because cultural references have drifted a bit in the past forty years.

meatfighter.com/mad/

meatfighter.comThe MAD Computer Program