15 Messages found

Blog: Commodore, IBM, OS/2, ARexx - Deal or No Deal? (04. Feb. 2026)
In the latest of his blog entries, Carl Svensson investigates the unsubstantiated claim that Commodore received a REXX license from IBM in exchange for using design ideas from the Amiga Workbench in the development of OS/2 2.0. His conclusion, though: thi...

Blog: Tube monitors, pixels, and signal quality (15. Oct. 2025)
A new article entitled "The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)" has been published on Datagubbe.se, in which Carl Svensson delves into the technical and cultural aspects of CRT displays. He covers topics such as signal processing, pict...

Worth a read: More retrocomputing, less nostalgia (05. Aug. 2025)
Swedish developer and blogger Carl Svensson has published a new article on datagubbe.se. In "More retrocomputing, less nostalgia", he takes a critical look at the concept of retro nostalgia. He questions the widespread assumption that old technology was i...

Worth a read: The Meaning of Icons (03. Jun. 2025)
In his latest blog post on datagubbe.se entitled "The Meaning of Icons", Carl Svensson explores how we interpret icons in graphical user interfaces – and why their meaning is often less obvious than we think. Using numerous examples – fro...

Worth a read: Why computers were more fun before (22. Apr. 2025)
In his latest article, "Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before", published on Datagubbe.se, Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson reflects on the development of computer use and argues that computers were more f...

Worth a read: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS (25. Mar. 2025)
In the latest blog post on Datagubbe.se, entitled "BRA and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS", Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson takes a look at an often-overlooked detail of AmigaDOS: using the rarely documented terms BRA and KET...

Worth a read: A history of user interface design (21. Mar. 2025)
The Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson analyzes the development of user interfaces in a new article on Datagubbe.se entitled "Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design" - with a special focus on futuristic interface desig...

Experimental test: The Annotated Hacker Test (24. Sep. 2024)
Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson regularly covers topics related to Amiga, development and retro culture in his blog at datagubbe.se. In his new post "The Annotated Hacker Test" under the title link, users can expect an amusing, nost...

Worth a read: Cosy Computing - On the soulful qualities of home computers (03. Sep. 2024)
In the blog post "Cosy Computing - On the soulful qualities of home computers" on datagubbe.se, Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson describes the homely atmosphere when using old home computers. He emphasizes the simpler technology and ...

Blog: The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (06. Aug. 2024)
The Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson has published a new article entitled "The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art" on his website datagubbe.se. In it, he discusses how CRTs smoothed out the hard edges and block structures of old video...

Blog: Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers (07. Jun. 2024)
Swedish technology nerd and software developer Carl Svensson has published a new article on his website datagubbe.se, entitled ‘Stupid Slow: The Perceived Speed of Computers’. This article deals with the subjective perception of computer speed...

Blog: 'Tables' and 'Strings' in programming language COBOL (25. Mar. 2022)
Carl Svensson, author of the ARexx tools RxEnv, deals in his latest blog entry with 'Tables' and 'Strings' in the COBOL programming language in response to a corresponding article on The Craft of Coding. A (no longer maintained) compiler is also availa...

Philosophy: The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years" (08. Jan. 2022)
In early 2021, engineer, writer and lecturer at the École Polytechnique de Louvain, Lionel Dricot, wrote an essay titled 'The computer built to last 50 years' in which he ponders how a long-lasting computer could be developed to save both one's finances, ...

Tools for ARexx development: RxEnv V1.2 (13. Nov. 2021)
At the beginning of September we reported on Carl Svensson's project RxEnv which is supposed to add a 'REPL' to the ARexx development environment. REPL is for 'Read, Eval, Print, Loop' and offers the option to enter any ARexx code in an interactive wi...

RxEnv: Tools for the ARexx development environment (update) (07. Sep. 2021)
Already for a longer time Carl Svensson has been dealing with ARexx programming language and for example had released a minimaltic GUI 'mp3Play' for the MP3 player "MPEGA" or a little WWW server 'gW3S'. Meanwhile these tools are not available any longer s...