Two major collections of hobbyist and constructor's books from the UK. There are freely downloadable PDFs of all kinds of radio and electronics related stuff here.
It's an audio player for Windows that keeps the Winamp dream alive.
The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles - preserving raster typography from pre-GUI times. Includes 8-bit and 16-bit fonts as well, including Atari, Tandy, and even some BIOS' characteristic typefaces.
TrueType (.ttf), bitmap (.fon) and web (.woff) remakes for 200+ character sets. Both pixel-perfect and aspect-corrected reproductions of the original raster fonts. Multi-lingual Unicode enhancements of selected system character sets. Free to use under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
T-shirts sold by the Connections Museum in Seattle.
Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.
Do you remember Saturday nights in Pittsburgh? Do you remember "Chilly Billy" Bill Cardille and Channel 11's Saturday Late Show Chiller Theater? Chiller Theater was Pittsburgh's favorite place to see Horror, Fantasy, and Science-Fiction movies on television.
Nathan Anderson did some beautiful concept art of Neuromancer for his senior thesis.
Browser port of the classic xneko/oneko program. Puts a cute little kitten on your webpage, which chases your mouse cursor around. When it catches up it gets bored and takes a nap. It's a classic screen toy.
oneko.gif is the sprite sheet, if you want to change the graphics.
VHS is a tool for creating GIFs that can be used to demo CLI tools. But what if we used it to do something different? Like re-create some classic scifi movie scenes. Such as Trinity using NMAP in the Matrix or hacking WOPR in War Games? This project has some VHS tapes that generate:
- Neo receiving messages from Trinity in the Matrix
- Trinity hacking using NMAP
- Hacking WOPR in War Games
- WOPR realising Thermonuclear war is a mugs game
- Dennis Nedry's terminal in Jurassic Park
- Ripley asking about Special Order 937
This is a free online edition of Mirrorshades, as edited by Bruce Sterling. Posted by Rudy Rucker, September 28, 2022.
Summercon is one of the oldest hacker conventions, and the longest running such conference in America. It helped set a precedent for more modern “cons” such as H.O.P.E. and DEF CON, although it has remained smaller and more personal. Summercon has been hosted in cities such as Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Atlanta, New York, Washington, D.C., Austin, Las Vegas, and Amsterdam.
The Transactor was started life in 1978 as a Commodore Business Machines publication used to explain low level details of the Commodore PET. In 1982 it was reborn as a bimonthly independent magazine published out of Milton Ontario (Toronto) covering all 8bit Commodore’s. This revised magazine used the slogan new slogan was “The Tech News Journal for Commodore Computers” and was paid for through advertising and subscription prices. A quick scan of the covers below and you will be able to see when this change occurred. The Commodore Transactors were mass produced using a very inexpensive mimeograph technology while the independent magazine was created using a proper printing press.
Both publications were known for their depth. They covered hardware hacking in detail and were read by serious users. One issue even boasted that it was 95% advertising free right on the cover.
A collaborative encyclopedia about the Blaster Master series.
This eBay seller stocks payphones and mounting components for same.
Hanna-Barbera SoundFX Library is jam packed with more than 2,200 royalty free sound effects - available on either 4 CDs or as a download. It features all the great sounds that have become synonymous with legendary cartoon shows like The Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, and all the rest of the cartoon sound effects gang. The comprehensive comedy sounds collection also includes, for the first time, Hanna-Barbera's top-ten list of the most popular sounds used at their studio and a fascinating booklet containing priceless behind the scenes interviews with cartoon pioneers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Hanna-Barbera's team of editors and Sound Ideas' engineers worked hand in hand to select only the very best cartoon sound effects for this collection. All of the effects have been digitally re-mastered with state-of-the-art noise reduction techniques to make them cleaner and funnier, than ever before. Sound Ideas is proud to be the exclusive distributor for the Hanna-Barbera SoundFX Library.
The story of Mel (a real programmer). Annotated.
I got to wondering... Could we have built an 8080 microcomputer, like the famous Altair 8800, but in a pocket-sized package? No "wizard behind the curtain" modern chips to make it work. It had to be built with vintage parts and through-hole techniques; just as it would have been back then. It must be user programmable; not simply running a fixed program like the HP-35. And, it's got to have a real front panel, like the Altair with its classic switches and blinkie-lights!
The kits are linked near the end of the page.
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
- RSS 1.0 (full text): http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risksrss1.xml
- RSS 2.0 (full text): http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risksrss2.xml
- ATOM (full text): http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risksatom.xml
- RDF: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/rdigest.rdf
- JSON feed: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks.json
Comes out weekly.
Oneko is a screenmate for X written in C. It has different skins e.g. cat cat, dog dog, tora (striped cat) tora, Cardcaptor Xakura chasing your mouse cursor. Images used are .xbm (X bitmap) files.
l0phtcrack is now open source.