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In spite of the ubiquity of ferrets like me who are perpetually fascinated by shiny novelties, the retrocomputing community is still alive and kicking, especially here on Lobsters. Observing the steady stream of these posts that have continued more-or-less unabated since I joined three years ago, I would like to (re-)propose a retrocomputing tag. Its description might read something like:

• Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt
• MicroMac, a 128k Macintosh emulated on an RP2040
• Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator
• Wallops: A modern IRC client for classic Mac OS
• Networking in C64 OS
• retrowin32: redoing syscalls
• Wikipedia Reader for classic MacOS (2023)
• dmg-acid2: The Acid2 test, now for the original Game Boy
• Windows 3.11 on QEMU 5.2.0
• Departure Mono
• Minimal 64x4 – DIY computer with 4x the processing power of a C64 or Apple II
• Serena: An experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers
• retrospex: Convert images to fit Commodore 64 graphic modes
• maciNTosh: PowerPC Windows NT ported to Power Macintosh systems
• 84–24
• Virtualizing the 6502 with 6o6 (and The Incredible KIMplement goes 1.0)

I’m sure there are others I’ve lost track of. Additional examples would be welcome.

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In spite of the ubiquity of ferrets like me who are perpetually fascinated by shiny novelties, the retrocomputing community is still alive and kicking, especially here on Lobsters. Observing the steady stream of these posts that have continued more-or-less unabated since I joined three years ago, I would like to (re-)propose a retro tag. Its description might read something like:

• Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt
• MicroMac, a 128k Macintosh emulated on an RP2040
• Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator
• Wallops: A modern IRC client for classic Mac OS
• Networking in C64 OS
• retrowin32: redoing syscalls
• Wikipedia Reader for classic MacOS (2023)
• dmg-acid2: The Acid2 test, now for the original Game Boy
• Windows 3.11 on QEMU 5.2.0
• Departure Mono
• Minimal 64x4 – DIY computer with 4x the processing power of a C64 or Apple II
• Serena: An experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers
• retrospex: Convert images to fit Commodore 64 graphic modes
• maciNTosh: PowerPC Windows NT ported to Power Macintosh systems
• 84–24
• Virtualizing the 6502 with 6o6 (and The Incredible KIMplement goes 1.0)

I’m sure there are others I’ve lost track of. Additional examples would be welcome.

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Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

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