RetroLab is AndroidLab's section for living retrocomputing: not a dusty museum, but a lab built around real machines, strange systems, ports, unlikely clients and hardware that still teaches useful lessons.
This is where Amiga, Commodore, VIC-20, C64, Spectrum, AROS, MorphOS, PiStorm, FPGA boards, old CPUs and new bridges belong. The limit is not a defect here. It is the test bench.
What belongs in RetroLab
- development and ports on retro or alternative systems;
- experiments with Amiga, Commodore, Spectrum, AROS and MorphOS;
- technical reflections on efficiency, constraints and machine control;
- real but improbable software stories, including modern clients on non-modern platforms;
- tests, notes and engineering diary entries from the retro lab.
RetroLab starts from a simple idea: retrocomputing is not only nostalgia. Understanding the machine still makes you better when you work on today's systems.
Latest RetroLab articles
Telegram Amiga Gets a GUI: Alpha 0.0.1 on AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS
Telegram Amiga reaches alpha 0.0.1 with a native GUI and packages for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS, AROS i386 and AROS x86_64.
Telegram on Amiga in 2026: Why Start from a Diagnostic Client
Before chasing a full Telegram client on Amiga, the diagnostic client tests the hard parts: network, TLS, JSON, polling, sending messages and portability.
Telegram Amiga Becomes MTProto: The Shift from Bot API to a Real Client
Telegram Amiga moves from a diagnostic Bot API experiment to a real MTProto client: login, local session, dialogs, history and messages on Amiga-like systems.
Telegram on Amiga: Diary of an MTProto Client in C
How I built a Telegram MTProto client in C for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS: from diagnostic client to real login, on real hardware.
VIC-20 and Portfolio: What Efficiency Means When You Have 3.5 KB
The Portfolio program on an unexpanded VIC-20 still teaches a current lesson: efficiency is not a slogan, it is representing the problem well under...
BebboSSH on AROS: When SSH Turns Retrocomputing Into a Real Lab
RetroLab: the AROS port of BebboSSH as practical infrastructure for developing, testing and automating on Amiga-like systems.
Amiga and PiStorm: Why Hybrid Machines Are the Liveliest Retrocomputing
PiStorm does not turn the Amiga into a disguised PC: it makes it a hybrid machine, useful for development, networking and real tests inside...
Telegram Amiga alpha 0.0.2: usability, stability and portability improvements for the MTProto client
Telegram Amiga alpha 0.0.2 brings a more usable native GUI to AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS, with history paging, online chat search, persistent unread badges,...