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   C:\KKJ\>:idle: (w84death@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 12:09:48 JST C:\KKJ\>:idle:

   I've got my birthday present earlier. A working unit of Compaq Contura 430C!

   A 486DX4/100 notebook with a trackball 🐁 ~30 years old.

   What is most important is that my latest engine works absolutely flawless and with full speed! Success!

   p.s. the sound it makes is pure ASMR (floppy, hard disk, beeps.)

   #asm #msdos #gamedev #retrocomputing #retrogamedev

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     C:\KKJ\>:idle: (w84death@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 12:09:47 JST C:\KKJ\>:idle:

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     It got Windows 95 in German. I formatted that quickly 😉

     Now trying to install FreeDOS from a floppies! 💾

     Fun fact: most of the time when I swap floppy it stops recognize them, I need to push a sleep button, then wake it up (few seconds!) and then the floppy works as normal. During the installation I needed to do this magic trick few times.

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     Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 12:12:35 JST Ethan Black

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     @w84death That's a great birthday present. For Christmas I got a ThinkPad X41 tablet! 2005 technology, and cooler than what we have (raw power aside).
     Now I just need a battery that lasts longer than 7 minutes and I can switch from my current ~2010 Dell Latitude computer for note-taking....