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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
Computers

Confessions of a Pirate BBS SysOp

March 30, 2026 The Retro Hour

Step back into the underground world of 90s dial-up piracy as we’re joined by Beast of Quartex, SysOp of Arcadia, once the largest pirate bulletin board system in the UK. From trading disks in the post to running a five-line elite BBS packed with the latest cracked Amiga games, Beast …

Highretrogamelord89
Games

Deluxe Butt Plug Simulator for the TI-99/4A

March 30, 2026 Highretrogamelord89

Came also out for: — Game description: A homebrew game and parody of fixed-screen shoot’em ups. The player has to hit the butthole with a butt plug and that for a certain amount of times. After that there is a bonus level where the player has to catch poop with …

Highretrogamelord89
Games

Deluxe Butt Plug Simulator for the TI-99/4A

March 30, 2026 Highretrogamelord89

Came also out for: — Game description: A homebrew game and parody of fixed-screen shoot’em ups. The player has to hit the butthole with a butt plug and that for a certain amount of times. After that there is a bonus level where the player has to catch poop with …

CuriousMarc
Computers

HP 3968A Instrumentation Recorder Restoration – Part 1

March 30, 2026 CuriousMarc

We start working on an HP 3968A 8-channel instrumentation recorder. Although it looks like an audio tape recorder – and could be used as such – it’s made to record instrumentation data. We want to use it as our flight voice and telemetry data in our Apollo setup. And thanks …

Sub-Etha Software
Blogs

Farewell, M-Audio iControl!

March 29, 2026 Sub-Etha Software

In 2005, I bought this M-Audio iControl USB interface from the local Apple Store. It was a real-world mirror of the on-screen controls in Apple’s GarageBand recording software. It was super cool and useful. For the past decade, it has been collecting dust in a storage bin. I decided to …

Highretrogamelord89
Games

Demon Attack for the TI-99/4A

March 28, 2026 Highretrogamelord89

Came also out for: Atari 2600 Atari 8-bit family Commodore 64 Intellivision Odyssey 2 PC Booter TRS-80 CoCo VIC-20 Videopac+ G7400 Game description: Demon Attack is an arcade action game with gameplay similar to Phoenix. You control a laser cannon at the bottom of the screen and need to destroy …