Videos: The Heathkit story, how orchards became Silicon Valley, and a propagation monitor
The mistake that built Heathkit I hadn’t heard the story about the boxcars of electronic components before. How orchards became Silicon Valley I worked in Silicon Valley right after I got out…
setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10
time for another Sun Ray blog post! I've had a few people email me asking for help setting up a Sun Ray server over the last few months, and despite my attempts to help them get it going there's been…
Why does Altered Beast need the CD-ROM² System Card 1.0?
When it comes to PC Engine CD-ROM² System Card compatibility, the answer is usually "The Super System Card 3.0 will play every game... except for one". That exception is 1989's PC Engine…
GNU Mes and the expertise buildup
Catching air in the middle of the deep-dive on Scheme bytecode interpreters.
Fiddling around with a Dell Latitude E6320
A few weeks ago I was given an old Dell Latitude E6320 laptop that my mum had for a while. It has an Intel i5-2520M with integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000, and 8GB of RAM. A perfectly fine mid-range…
A 1988 performance comparison of PC LAN servers
In our 1980s networking research, we came across this: a 1988 paper out of the National University of Singapore where Gee-Swee Poo and Tiow-Seng Tan benchmarked the file server performance of 3Com…
As X-Pected
Well, the results are in from the MSXdev 25 competition . The verdict? Operation Hibernation was selected as the 16th best of the fifty entries, while Eye Brawls nipped at its heels in 17th place.…
Family Preparedness, 1951
Seventy-five years ago, this scout, shown in the May 1951 issue of Boys Life, took the scout motto seriously. As a result, his family was prepared for just about anything. The accompanying article…
Pocket Chaos: Coding (and Decoding) on the R36S
Intro There's something slightly absurd about turning a tiny retro handheld into both an app development platform and a weak-signal radio decoder. The R36S - cheap, hackable, and rough around the…
The vi family
Polls of Linux users suggest that vi family editors are the most popular. The vi editor is a terminal-based text editor which dates back to 1977. If you’re wondering why so many people would choose…
Otis King’s calculator
Compact precision at its best The post Otis King’s calculator appeared first on Nathan's Possibly Interesting web site.
Nightdive, Stardock and the Business of Saving Classic Games: Larry Kuperman – The Retro Hour EP529
The former Nightdive Studios legend joins us The post Nightdive, Stardock and the Business of Saving Classic Games: Larry Kuperman – The Retro Hour EP529 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.
Unique features of the 8088 CPU
Unique features of the 8088 CPU We continue on our effort to build an 8088 CPU emulator, as well as emulating the rest of the original IBM PC. Last time we looked at some high level features of the…
Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU
The TD4 is a famous 4-bit CPU featured in the book How to Build a CPU by Kaoru Tonami . The book focuses on constructing a functional processor entirely from basic 74-series TTL logic ICs. While the…
Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64
Did you wonder ever why explosions and other effects looked so much cooler on the original PlayStation than they did on the Nintendo 64? “Silent Bomber“ for the PSX “Star Fox 64“ for the N64 The…
Creating level maps for Turok
This post is part of the Game Boy series (#10). In my last post, I wrote about how retroachievements.org works, and I am currently creating achievement for the GameBoy game Turok: Battle of the…
Have You HURD The GNUs?
Those of us who have been extremely online for a very long time will remember that Linus Torvalds announced his Linux kernel to a usenet newsgroup (or “froup”, as the internet lexicon had…
The Hotliner
The Hotliner by Carl Pitts released in 2000
¥ Great Orange
¥ Great Orange by Joshua Belland released in 1997
Teaser - Battlestations old hardware and unfinished projects
Episode coming soon! Dust off your old hardware or pull it back out of the recycling bin. News of the death of your old hardware was greatly exaggerated! Associated show notes and articles will be…
Computers and upgrades
My first computer was a Desktop with AMD Sempron processor which used to run at 1.6GHz. It was blazing fast! (Atleast until my neighbour got a better one.). It came with Windows XP and 512GB HDD. I…
Console Archives Round-Up: Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Price: $7.99 USDConsole Archives Release Date: April 23rd 2026Original Platform: Nintendo Entertainment SystemOkay, here we go. The last handful of Console Archives releases have had limited appeal…
Cydintosh: Tiny classic Mac Plus emulator for displaying weather data
If you like classic Macs and home automation, you’ve got to check out the Cydintosh project: https://github.com/likeablob/cydintosh I assembled mine and it’s working great! It’s…
F# Weekly #18, 2026 – Game Boy Emulator in F#
Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: Microsoft News Videos Blogs Highlighted projects New Releases That’s all for now. Have a great week. If you want to help keep F#…
My 10 Favorite Games: Game Boy Color Edition
It feels like it’s been a little while since I did the last one of these, but it’s time to get on with it again. In the past, I picked my favorite games for the original Game Boy. At the…
VCFe25.0
VCFe25.0 has been awesome, as always. This time, all the talks have been recorded and will be available soon. The slides for our talk about our ATF150x toolchain are available here
FujiNet Firmware 1.6.0 Released!
New firmware is available in the flasher! It’s a lot of changes and bug fixes! All Platforms Atari 8-Bit Apple II Coleco ADAM Commodore IEC CoCo MS-DOS / RS232
Trenton Sweeper Moves
Thanks to Bill Wall and Wesley Paulson for sending me updates of recent news on the last surviving piece of equipment from the Trenton & Mercer County, New Jersey Transit 5246 , a snow sweeper built…
Running Adobe’s 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser
The HP C2089A “PostScript Cartridge Plus”, a 1991 add-on for the LaserJet II/III, adds PostScript Level 2 support through Adobe’s own reference interpreter (version 2010.118) on a 2…
My new Pebble watchface - a vibecoding update
Back in December, I posted about vibecoding (I'm really sorry) a new Pebble watchface, mainly to see how 'easy' it is to do this using an LLM that has ingested the SDK and knows how to structure…
THEC64 Handheld
There are a lot of Commodore 64s out there. We are blessed with an abundance of options. There are the motherboard reproductions that you can populate with original chips, like the C64 Reloaded.…
Why do PC Engine CD-ROM² games have a second data track?
If you look at the layout of a PC Engine CD-ROM² game, you will probably find a disc that has two data tracks: I thought this was pretty unusual - as someone mostly familiar with home computers and…
felix86 26.05
This month we worked on ptrace, fixed some bugs, and are patiently waiting for new hardware.
Quarx Vinyl Soundtrack is Here!
Side A contains the original SID music from from Noelle composed for the Commodore 64 version, plus a couple of tracks that were composed for the game but never actually used. As well as the dual-SID…
Fixing a Timex Sinclair 2068 and Porting the Bond Maze
I picked up a boxed Timex Sinclair 2068 that wouldn’t boot. An oscilloscope, a BackBit tester, and a fresh Z80 later, it was running. Then I ported Charles Bond’s 1981 maze algorithm from…
April News
Great Eastern Railway 1899 4 Wheel Brake Third 853 (BRONZE) Painting of the lettering of this vehicle is progressing steadily, with completion of the vehicle and a return to traffic expected in June.…
GLQuake IRIX MesaFX port
GLQuake port with MesaFX backend, with dual TMU support. -driver sources (SST1 and CVG support on IP32) https://github.com/sdz-mods/tdfx_irix-glide2x IRIX port (SST1 on IP32)…
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