🪐 Welcome to the Neon Systems

The planet where your retro computer can feel at home.

Especially if it's a Commodore Amiga, 64 or a vintage Macintosh.

Latest Update

2025-11-21

Quote of the day

The diligent fool is the biggest ordeal - Unknown

Locations

🏙️ Copperworld

The most populous settlement around here. You can find my retro computing related writings, reviews, guides, resources here, mostly related to the Commodore Amiga and vintage Macintosh computers.

🕹️ Recreation zone

It's been some time since the last shipment arrived, so you find quite dated stuff here. These games even though once cutting-edge, now look obsolete. But somehow still feel inviting. Virtual worlds with no distractions or hidden agenda. You notice a highscore board on the wall of the best Elite players and a poster with the best vintage Macintosh games of all times.

🗼 Radio tower

The radio tower's antenna stretch high into the sky and despite being old, it's still broadcasting waves across the planet.

🔗 Link hub

Some of the capsules I found particularly useful or just enjoyed visiting:

🗂️ Administration office

I've been using the pseudonym neongod since the 90s. It came from an old music module’s title I found on a computer magazine cover disk back then. Unortunately I can't find it any more and have no idea who made it. As a kid looking for a cool online nickname, I started using it. I still think it sounds cool. The expression "neon god" is also a noteworthy theme in Simon & Garfunkel's Sound of Silence, where the lyrics goes:

And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made

It's a critique of our times I resonated with for as long as I can remember.

I'm a software engineer, retro computer nerd, hobby gamedev and a dad, not necessarily in this order. I've been hanging out online and around computer geeks since my youth, mostly on IRC and web forums, but also IRL in computer clubs and demoscene parties, until I became one myself.

You can often find me with the same nick on IRC (IRCnet and Libera.Chat). I'm also checking into the Particles BBS from time to time.

=> mailto:neongd_[at]_tuta.io Email: neongd at tuta.io

The content of this capsule is also available on the web with an early 2000s aestetics:

Even though I tend to update the Gemini version first.

Licence

Writings in this capsule are licenced under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, unless stated otherwise. Training models using my work is strictly prohibited.

System Information

HW: Raspberry Pi, running in my closet

Uptime: up 17 weeks, 5 days, 4 hours, 54 minutes