The Lunduke Journal - 2022 “State of The Journal”
Looking back at the last year of The Lunduke Journal. It was pretty stinkin’ awesome. ⌘ Read more

2 Days Left to Order the Retro Computer Trading Cards
All orders need to be in by February 1st. ⌘ Read more

LundukeFest delayed one week due to illness
Lunduke got sick. What can ya do? LundukeFest moved to Saturday, February 5th. ⌘ Read more

LundukeFest is two days away!
Linux Sucks 2022, and non-stop nerdy happiness awaits! ⌘ Read more

Nerdy color by number - Commodore PET
One of the coolest looking computers – from 1977 – just begs to be colored. ⌘ Read more

A new text-mode “Psuedo-3D Engine” written in BASH
Imagine an old-school dungeon crawler, first person game. In ASCII art. Running in your terminal. It’s a thing of beauty. ⌘ Read more

DOS + Windows 3.11… on a single floppy!
Seriously! Fully functional Windows 3.11 booting on just ONE floppy! Bonkers! ⌘ Read more

Why the computer mouse was created…
… the reason will *shock* you. ⌘ Read more

Is the Web made for Computers? Or are Computers made for the Web?
A variation on the debate between Thick Clients and Thin Clients. ⌘ Read more

Happy 38th Birthday, Macintosh 128K!
The very first Macintosh was released on January 24th, 1984. 38 years ago. And it was super, duper cool. ⌘ Read more

Nerdy Cross Stitch - MS DOS
The classic MS-DOS logo. In thread and fabric. With the full pattern. Because… why not? ⌘ Read more

Deadline for Retro Computer Trading Cards & LundukeFest approaching!
Only a few days left to get in your Trading Card orders, or get your subscription to get a ticket to LundukeFest! ⌘ Read more

Ways to get 40 year old computers talking to new computers
Need to move files to and from that 1985 computer? These options will do the trick. ⌘ Read more

Nerdy Color-by-Number: Bill Gates posing seductively
What’s more fun than Color-by-Numbers? Color-by-Numbers of really goofy, nerdy things. ⌘ Read more

Syllable : The long abandoned Amiga OS clone
Itself a fork of Amiga clone, Atheos, this OS has been dead for a decade. Let’s see what it was like. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke & Hartley - Jan 21, 2022
Listen now (60 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast #15 ⌘ Read more

Physical “Retro Computer” Trading Cards now available for order!
Want collectible trading cards for classic computers – including a playable trading card game? Trick question. Of course you do. ⌘ Read more

LundukeFest final schedule announced!
Linux Sucks, Retro Computing, and so much more. January 29th is going to be a very, very nerdy day. ⌘ Read more

On NFTs, Retro Computer Trading Cards, and Goofiness
Listen now (30 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast #14 ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Buys Zork (and Kings Quest)… and I have thoughts about it.
Listen now (18 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast #13 ⌘ Read more

Introducing “Nerd Cards” - Retro computing, digital trading cards
Like baseball cards. For computer nerds. ⌘ Read more

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The Proverbening ⌘ Read more

If Linux is not magic…
… then what it is?! ⌘ Read more

Some recently sold Lunduke Journal NFTs
These are like super nerdy baseball cards. And I’m loving it. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s bad history disrespecting classic video games (a firsthand account)
The Redmond giant just purchased some of the most historically significant video games… but will they respect them? ⌘ Read more

Microsoft now owns: Zork, Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and After Dark
And Pitfall! Plus River Raid. Also Heretic and MechWarrior. Wait. Wait. WHAT?! ⌘ Read more

Microsoft acquires Daniel Radcliffe in historic $73 Billion deal
Suggests MS-Radcliffe integration with Call of Duty, World of Warcraft. ⌘ Read more

The most magical words in all of computing…
(Besides “Turn it off and on again”…) ⌘ Read more

“Turn Your Android Phone Into the Ultimate Retro Computing Battlestation” - Jan 29 at LundukeFest
Joining “Linux Sucks 2022”, “The (True) Untold History of the Internet”, and “Weird Tales of Linux Weirdness”. With more announcements to come. ⌘ Read more

“The early days of Unix at Bell Labs” presented by Brian Kernighan
The early history of UNIX… from a man who was there. ⌘ Read more

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Search your feelings. You know it to be true. ⌘ Read more

Remembering the Linux-based Commodore OS
In 2011, Commodore USA LLC released “Commodore OS Vision” based on Linux Mint. ⌘ Read more

Elon Musk decides to make his own Linux distro
Other Space Tycoons had a Linux Distribution. He felt left out. ⌘ Read more

Webamp : Winamp… as a webpage
Fully functional, with support for Winamp themes. Craziness. ⌘ Read more

NFTs: The Good, The Bad, & The Goofy
There are valid criticisms of NFTs… but there are some solidly good (and fun) uses of the technology. ⌘ Read more

Finding our Nerdy Happy Place
I’d like to take a step back from my regular Mega-Nerdy ™ articles for just a moment… To talk about things from a more personal point of view. Today was a rough day in the news. I won’t go into the details here, but things were happening out there in the world that made me pretty sad. And frustrated. And afraid. Things that hit close to home. ⌘ Read more

daedalOS - the crazy Desktop environment in the browser
Complete with emulators, terminals, media players, live desktop wallpaper… and DOOM. All in a web browser. It’s both disturbing and wonderful. ⌘ Read more

“Weird Tales of Linux Weirdness” at LundukeFest, Jan 29
Joining “Linux Sucks 2022” and “The (True) Untold History of the Internet”… with more announcements to come. ⌘ Read more

**Long time Linux YouTuber tries to use Windows. **
Determines Windows “not quite ready for average user”. ⌘ Read more

Windows XP was named after Leonardo da Vinci?!
True story. ⌘ Read more

The House of Lunduke BBS
Classic BBS gaming, 24x7 telnet access, fancy-pants ANSI graphics ⌘ Read more

Whoever named “NFTs” really missed a great opportunity…
Can we all just agree to call them this from now on? The Lunduke Journal subscriber exclusives as of this moment: 7 books, 2 games, LundukeFest pass, + articles and podcast episodes. You can subscribe here on Substack or join The Lunduke Journal Community at ⌘ Read more

Real men don’t comment their code…
Insert manly grunting. The Lunduke Journal subscriber exclusives as of this second: 7 books, 2 games, LundukeFest pass, + articles and podcast episodes. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke Journal about to hit subscriber goals… for NEXT month.
Woah. Apparently people really like articles about Linux and retro computers! ⌘ Read more

“The (True) Untold History of the Internet” – only at LundukeFest
Think you know the story of TCP, WWW, and the Internet? Think again. ⌘ Read more

**New Free Adventure Game for all Lunduke Journal Subscribers **
“2299: Episode One” is an adventure game, set in space, for Linux and Windows. And it’s free for all full Lunduke Journal subscribers. ⌘ Read more

Most outstanding! The Lunduke Journal smashes subscription goals in just 3 hours!
3 hours! That’s crazy! ⌘ Read more

Linux Tycoon Classic for Windows & Linux
Free for all Lunduke Journal subscribers. ⌘ Read more

Linux Tycoon for DOS
We hit our subscriber goals, so I am releasing Linux Tycoon for all subscribers! ⌘ Read more

Just for today: $15 for one year of The Lunduke Journal
Including a full pass to LundukeFest, tons of free eBooks and more goodies… plus Linux Tycoon if we hit our goal! ⌘ Read more

Linux Sucks 2022 - Jan 29, 4pm Pacific
Streamed live at LundukeFest. This is going to suck more than anything has sucked before. ⌘ Read more

Pine64’s e-Paper tablet now booting mainline Linux
That’s right. An e-Ink tablet that you can run Neofetch on. ⌘ Read more

Game Boy gets WiFi… and video streaming! Seriously!
Why? Because it’s awesome. That’s why. ⌘ Read more

Announcing the first LundukeFest - “Make Computers Fun Again”
The January 29th virtual conference will include “Linux Sucks 2022” and many other fun-filled presentations and breakout sessions. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Nerdy New Years Resolutions
My 2022 New Years Resolutions. Spoiler: They’re a bit nerdy. ⌘ Read more

Compiling QuickBASIC’s Gorillas on Linux… surprisingly tricky
Even with QB64 and FreeBASIC, compiling the classic GORILLA.BAS is not easy… but it works! ⌘ Read more

How did the programmer escape from prison?
I give up. How *did* the programmer escape from prison? ⌘ Read more

2021 is over! Huzzah! Get Lunduke Journal yearly subscription for $15.
7 free eBooks: including a Choose Your Own Adventure, Nerdy Dad Jokes, & a Kids Book ⌘ Read more

Laptops Powered by AA Batteries (Seriously)
And some of them run an impressively long time on a single set of Double-A’s. ⌘ Read more

The History of the Graphical User Interface – 1945 to 1980
A visual, historical tour of the early years of computer GUI’s… starting in 1945. ⌘ Read more

The CDE-look-a-like desktop gets a 2.0 release
The Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) has old-school looks… and it is gorgeous. ⌘ Read more

NFTs, Net Neutrality, & Emotional Reactions to Technology
A few years back I came under fire for expressing a viewpoint so controversial, so repugnant, so… so… evil that I received, quite literally, thousands of angry messages. That viewpoint: “Net Neutrality: Not that big of a deal” I didn’t advocate for, ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Dad Jokes About Computers, vol. 1
Comic strips. Containing dad jokes. Very, very nerdy dad jokes. ⌘ Read more

Make the Linux shell look like DOS.
Why would you want to make your Linux terminal look like DOS. Well. Why not? ⌘ Read more

Why is “Spaghetti Code” called “Spaghetti Code”?
The answer will shock you. ⌘ Read more

First NFT sold for “Tux on Tour”? The Amiga one. Naturally.
%5 of every “Tux on Tour” transaction (sales and re-sales) is donated to Open Source projects. ⌘ Read more

“Operating System Not Found” - a nerdy Choose Your Own Adventure
The story of a man, his newly built PC, and… FroYo. ⌘ Read more

Tux on Tour - Raising money for Open Source projects using nerdy NFTs
A percentage of all sales (and re-sells) goes directly to Haiku and PCLinuxOS. ⌘ Read more

Christmas Demos of the 1980s (for C64, Atari, Apple II, DOS, & Amiga)
Christmas demos were a staple of 1980s computer culture. Here are some of the best. ⌘ Read more

10 Stories that Rocked the Tech Industry in 2021
From the Apple App Store to Bill Gates’ poop, it’s been a pretty nutty year. ⌘ Read more

The 10 Awesomest Linux stories of 2021
These Linux news stories from 2021 will, like, totally make your head explode. ⌘ Read more

“Road-Sign Hank & The Aliens” available for free to all Lunduke Journal subscribers
Family friendly, Sci-Fi adventure comic book series… with some nerdy jokes mixed in. ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation releases Linux as NFT
Each Linux kernel source code file will be auctioned off as an NFT on the Etherium blockchain. ⌘ Read more

Creator of Javascript apologizes for “screwing up a good thing and ruining, like, basically everything”
“Yeah. That’s my bad.” ⌘ Read more

Local man switches to Arch, tells no one
Yesterday, at approximately 5:05pm, a Seattle area man installed Arch Linux on his home computer and has yet to tell anyone. “This appears to be the first occurrence of failing to tell someone that you run Arch,” stated a representative of the Seattle Sheriff’s Department. “We are actively investigating whether or not this is a crime. It definitely is a violation of norms.” ⌘ Read more

Binary 101
I only know 10 binary jokes. Here’s half of them. ⌘ Read more

My thoughts on log4j summed up in one picture…
(One very snarky picture.) ⌘ Read more

50% off Lunduke Journal subscriptions until the 26th
Because it’s December. And why not. ⌘ Read more

FreeDOS 1.3, the first major release in 5 years, edges closer to a full release
The last major FreeDOS version (1.2) was released in December of 2016… five years ago. ⌘ Read more

Man. Life on the Oregon Trail was rough!
So many ways to die. ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
Where does the Linux Foundation spend the rest of its $177 Million in revenue? Let’s take a look. ⌘ Read more

Sonic the Hedgehog for the C64
Seriously. ⌘ Read more

I have no idea what I’m doing… let’s sell some NFTs!
Time to see what this NFT fuss is all about. ⌘ Read more

Visi On : The failed 1983 GUI that came before Windows or Macintosh
The legendary company behind VisiCalc produced a graphical desktop for PCs that shipped before Windows or the first Macintosh. ⌘ Read more

“Small Team Closed Source” vs “Large Team Open Source”
Which is better? ⌘ Read more

GitHub is the hub of the entire Open Source world?
… ⌘ Read more

Give your programming career a boost by moving to Mexico
You’re welcome. Hey, want to support The Lunduke Journal? There are ways. Oh, yes. There are ways. ⌘ Read more

How to support The Lunduke Journal (& where to buy Lunduke’s books)
Multiple ways to support this nerdy publication and become part of the community. ⌘ Read more

Turbo Rascal : Pascal Compiler & IDE for tons of classic systems
One language for: C64, VIC-20, NES, Gameboy, ZX Spectrum, Atari 2600, 8086AT, Amiga 500, Atari 800, BBC Micro, SNES, Apple II & Atari ST + MORE ⌘ Read more

The last programming project from Bill Gates: Microsoft BASIC for TRS-80 Model 100
This Operating System was the last project that Bill Gates played a major role in programming… and it’s actually pretty amazing. ⌘ Read more

Space Quest: The Movie
The original, EGA adventure game from Sierra… turned into a movie. Seriously. This is worth checking out. ⌘ Read more

The amazing, fake Macintoshes of NanoRaptor
None of these are real… but if they were… I would buy each and every one of them. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Windows 1.0 : Not as bad as you’d think
Multitasking. Virtual Memory. Tiled window manager. Turns out the very first version of Windows (from 1985) actually has some good points. ⌘ Read more

DESQview/X : The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
X11 client and server. DOS. Windows 3.1. All with preemptive multitasking. ⌘ Read more

A brand-spanking-new Windows 3.1 mouse driver. Seriously.
It’s for use in VMWare. You know. So you don’t need to grab and ungrab the mouse. ⌘ Read more

DevOps thrown out in favor of DevTesJanOps.
DevOps takes ultimate form as “Developer + Tester + Janitor + Operations”. ⌘ Read more

Using Perl and RegEx is like riding a bike…
THE COMIC ⌘ Read more

Tigers and Bears and Programmers.
That’s a comic strip. You like it very much. You probably want to send it to everyone you know. If you aren’t currently a subscriber to The Lunduke Journal, I highly recommend it. It is so choice. The free edition is great. If you pitch in a few bucks you get ⌘ Read more

Linus Sebastian attempts to install Linux video editor, entire universe implodes
“We kind of all saw it coming, you know?” says one fellow YouTuber. ⌘ Read more

Germany planning to start using Linux, then stop using Linux again. Again.
Linux users applaud the move… until Germany switches back to Windows in a few months. ⌘ Read more