🪐 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
2026-03-25
Review of the ACA500Plus + X-Surf 500 + Acrylic case for the Amiga 500
The Best 2 player Amiga OCS/ECS games
2026-03-19
Formatting and link fixes in the Workbench 1.3 - Enhancements and programs article
2026-02-20
Added some new quotes to the roster
Quote of the day
Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know. - Donald Hamilton
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.
Review of the ACA500Plus + X-Surf 500 + Acrylic case for the Amiga 500
Review of the M68EC020TK CPU accelerator card designed by Matze
Making ALPA (Assembly Language Programming Aid) work on C64
Workbench 1.3 - Enhancements and programs
Making new system ROMs for a Macintosh Classic II
AmigaNOS (KA9Q) TCP/IP configuration
BlueSCSI v2 on an A590's external SCSI port
BlueSCSI v2 and Internet on a Mac Classic II
WebOne Proxy for vintage computers
ODV-GBS-C scan converter and ODV-II Composite/S-Video adapter review
Classic II (Performa 200) Restoration
Connecting the Amiga 500 to an HDMI display
Transfer files between PC/Mac and Amiga with a GOTEK drive
Why buy an Amiga 500 today?
Bringing the Amiga 500 online - The Comprehensive Guide
Soft-kick and dual boot on an Amiga 500
CD32 - Console Review
CD32WB - Making a Workbench CD for the CD32
Complete Fred Fish Disk Catalog
🕹️ 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.
The Best 2 player Amiga OCS/ECS games
Fixing the We Are Stardust game (Lukhash tape, C64)
How to play Frontier: Elite II (Amiga version)
The Best B&W Macintosh Games - Top 20
🗼 Radio tower
The radio tower's antenna stretch high into the sky and despite being old, it's still broadcasting waves across the planet.
Retreat from the Online World
BRG MK27 portable cassette player and recorder
The case for cassette tapes
Discover new music (without algorithms)
🔗 Link hub
Some of the capsules I found particularly useful or just enjoyed visiting:
Kennedy - Search engine
TLGS - "Totally Legit" Gemini search
AuraSearch - Search the small web of Gemini, Nex, Spartan, and Scroll
Collaborative Directory of Geminispace
Fumble around - A webring on Gemini, discover a random new page
BBS - Discussion forums, microblogging, and Git issue tracking for the Gemini community
Station - Microblogging with likes and replies
Hidden Nexus - A social place in Gemspace!
Antenna - Feed aggregator from across the Geminispace
Cosmos - A Super-Aggregator that collects posts from various other aggregators and groups threads of discussion together into "constellations"
Discogem - Discover new gemini capsules every day
Hashnix Radio - Community-driven icecast internet station
Hashnix Misfin Messaging - Like email just for the small web
Smolzine - Zine with a curated list of interesting capsules
Astrobotany - A community gardening experience on Geminispace
Lasso - Read it later service for Gemini
Gemi.dev Heavy Industries - Read news sites, Wikipedia, Weather service
Daily xkcd comics
Coldcars Fragments, a personal poetry capsule from Finland
Vi Grey's personal capsule about 6502 assembly, NES gamedev and many other things
Nivrig's capsule - Amiga games, gamedev
inky's live sets and performances
🗂️ 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). I'm also checking into the Particles BBS from time to time.
email: neongd at tuta.io
misfin: neongd@hashnix.club
station log
mastodon: @neongod@mstdn.social
irc: neongod on IRCNet
xmpp: neongd@movim.eu
matrix: @neongd:private.coffee
The content of this capsule is also available on the web with an early 2000s aestetics:
http://neongd.com
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.
HW: Raspberry Pi, running in my closet
Uptime: up 36 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours, 54 minutes