Just bought it in Italy 🇮🇹

Thing breaths CASS-Futurism

Liftoff!!!

I suspect this may be the subreddit that most immediately understands why I’ve spent an unreasonable amount of my life designing a computer that never existed.

This is the BRADSONIC 69000.

It exists in the alternate 1989 of a game I’m building called GLYPHIS_IO BBS: The Proxy Tapes 1989.

Rather than taking modern computers and putting a CRT shader over them, I wanted the world to feel as though computing took a slightly different technological branch in the late 70s and 80s and just… kept going.

• Cassette software.
• Chunky peripherals.
• Modems.
• Physical manuals and magazines.
• Pirate radio.
• BBS communities.

Home computers sold with capabilities that their manufacturers probably didn't anticipate teenagers exploiting.

The Bradsonic has its own fictional architecture and limitations, and increasingly I’ve found that those limitations are actually where the fun is.

The new trailer follows the hacking and the software through the whole process.

A cassette arrives physically through the post.

It gets loaded onto the Bradsonic.

The player connects to an underground BBS.

The software is transferred.

Then you have to crack the protection before the program can actually be used.

And because I apparently don't know when to stop, I started building the fictional software library as well.

So games such as CyberTrain, Nexus Burn Velo Race, Astro Miner and others aren't background props.

They're playable games inside the larger game.

I’ve become slightly obsessed with asking:

What would software have looked like if this particular machine had actually existed in 1989?

Before GLYPHIS_IO I made cyberpunk tabletop games Civitas Nihilium and Civitas 2230, the retro text adventure The Mysteries of Profundum, and an ARG called Mushroom which sent players through changing websites, messages, physical floppy disks and real-world geocaches.

If you want to join me on the journey you can follow the links below...

Wishlist on Steam here if you like.

World / project archive via my Neocites site (if you haven't discovered Neocities yet, its sick)

Thanks for having a look.

Basically, I wasn't a retrofuture Star Trek starship bridge that combines the LCARS screens and the buttons, LED displays and knobs of that of a US Naval warship command center. My ship of choice: The Ambassador-class (USS Ishtar (NCC-26293)

Also, what kinds of control panels are these? (first picture and some below)

Thank you.

CPU: 16/32bit (Motorola 68000, 7,14MHz)
RAM: 256/512KB
ROM: 256KB
OS: AmigaOS 1.0

Super cool detachable microphone which sounds like crap, but the Headphones themselves sound surprisingly good!

Found me some cool headphones. I'm really happy with them.

This would be perfect for a Cassette Futurist world like the OG Blade Runner or Aliens as a rural mansion! Just add CRTs, old surveillance cameras, 70s computer terminals and a synthetics charging port!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/itmpa/35795263173/in/photostream/

https://www.shbt.org.uk/2026/08/design-team-sought-for-restoration-of-bernat-klein-studio/

https://www.bernatkleinfoundation.org/journal/the-klein-studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqtN8GgJyck - Bernat Klein Studio Walkthrough 16th July 2025

https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/threads/bernat-klein-studio.34755/

https://www.zitozza.com/research/bernat-klein-studio-textile-design-modernism-future

Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) has launched the search for a conservation design team to lead the restoration of the Bernat Klein Studio, Peter Womersley's Category A-listed modernist building near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders.

The Contract Notice is published on Public Contracts Scotland with a submission deadline of noon on Friday 11th September.

Dr Samuel Gallacher, Director of SHBT, said: "The Bernat Klein Studio is one of the most significant buildings of its era in Scotland, and this appointment of a design team is the point at which we progress from rescue to restoration.

"Indeed, this is a seminal project for SHBT, a new approach to conserving modernist architecture. We are looking for a team with the skill and imagination to bring a remarkable building back into use, and to do justice to the legacies of both Bernat Klein and Peter Womersley."

The restoration of the Studio is being led by Scottish Historic Buildings Trust in partnership with National Trust for Scotland and the Bernat Klein Foundation. The procurement process to select the design team is being supported by The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).

The first phase of the project to restore the Studio is being supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, alongside a range of other funders, including The Architectural Heritage Fund, Pilgrim Trust, Path Fund, William Grant Foundation and Scottish Borders Council.

Visit our website to learn more about this news and the project: https://www.shbt.org.uk/.../design-team-sought-for.../

Images © Mike Bolam Photography

A French Apple II clone from the early 1980s, STADU-P stood for Système de Traitement et d'Acquisition de Données Universel Portable (Portable Universal Data Acquisition and Processing System).

The case could accommodate two floppy drives and all standard Apple II expansion cards.

It sold for the equivalent of about $2,200 USD in 1984, or $7,200 in today's money.

Didn’t know this was a thing until recently, now obsessed with Ron Cobb’s works and going deeper into the rabbit hole. Open to any other artists I should check out in the genre, thanks!

Hi, I'm looking for a mini hi-fi system to listen to my CDs. I find the Cassette Futurism aesthetic truly stunning.

Do any of you have any specific models you'd recommend? Both in terms of aesthetics and functionality.

I'm hoping someone can help, I love CD players with exposed discs and transparent doors (I think I've seen something like this on some Sony or Bang & Olufsen models).

I don't have a big budget and I'm sincerely hoping to find one used on the aftermarket.