Retro computing
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A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator
tool
12 min read
A Bulletin Board Service (BBS) has been successfully hosted on a Casio VX-4 calculator. The developer has created four software applications for the Casio Pocket Computer calculators, with one already published on GitHub and the others planned for open source release.
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
tool
5 min read
os8088 1.0 is a graphical operating system designed for the IBM PC/XT, featuring a Macintosh System 1-style desktop. It supports overlapping windows, pull-down menus, pre-emptive multitasking for up to 12 tasks, and operates in various display modes including VGA with 16 colors at 640x480 resolution.
10 REM"_(C2SLFF4
tool
6 min read
The Wizard's Castle is an 80s microcomputer BASIC game originally written for the Exidy Sorcerer platform. The source code includes a comment line that features a seemingly nonsensical string, which appears verbatim from the original code.
We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
opinion
4 min read
In the 1990s, playing a computer game often required understanding the underlying computer system, including editing files like autoexec.bat. Users sometimes created boot disks specifically configured to launch a single game.
Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch
opinion
15 min read
A DIY x86 BIOS has been developed to run MS-DOS on Behringer's DDX3216 digital mixer. This project allows users to utilize the mixer with legacy software, enhancing its functionality.
Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64
tool
5 min read
A transformer model with approximately 25,000 parameters is implemented on an unmodified Commodore 64, utilizing hand-written 6502/6510 assembly. This 2-layer decoder-only architecture features real multi-head causal self-attention, softmax, and RMSNorm, and can be loaded from a floppy disk.