Collaborate Disseminate
Although the game Pizza Tycoon – known as Pizza Connection in Europe – probably doesn’t ring a bell for many folk, this 1994 DOS title is special enough for [cowomaly] to …read more Continue reading How Pizza Tycoon Simulates Traffic on a 25 MHz CPU
It seems to be becoming a bit of a theme that consumer electronics are dying not due to some critical fault, but due to Cooked Capacitor Syndrome (CCS). Case in …read more Continue reading Dyson Vacuums and the Curse of Cooked Capacitors
As unloved as IBM’s PCjr was, with only a one-year production run, it’s hard to complain about the documentation available for it. This includes the x86 assembly listing for the …read more Continue reading Building an IBM PCjr BIOS from Source Using Original Printed Source Code
A lot has been made about a post-quantum computer future in which traditional encryption methods have suddenly been rendered obsolete. With this terrifying idea in mind, it’s reassuring to see …read more Continue reading Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys
One of the nice things about magnetic storage is that as long as the magnetic layer remains intact, the data it contains should stay readable pretty much indefinitely. That raises …read more Continue reading Rescuing the Data on a 1960s LGP-21 Computer’s Disk Memory
Recently Haiku has become a bit of a popular subject of articles and videos, owing perhaps to how close it currently is to be a daily-driver OS and fulfilling the …read more Continue reading How to Install Haiku on a UEFI-Only Modern System
As part of the effort to push Large Language Model (LLM) ‘AI’ into more and more places, Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been adopted as the standard to connect …read more Continue reading How Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol Allows for Easy Remote Execution
Considering that Windows has the concept of so-called ‘subsystems’ whereby you can run different systems side-by-side, starting with the POSIX subsystem and later the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it …read more Continue reading WSL9x: Add an Entire Windows 9x Subsystem to Your Linux
With MCUs becoming increasingly more powerful it was only a matter of time before they would enable some more serious audio-processing tasks. [Danilo Gabriel]’s ESP32Synth library is a good example here, …read more Continue reading ESP32Synth : an Audio Synthesis Library for the ESP32
There’s little point in setting up your own shed-based clean room for semiconductor purposes if you don’t try to do something practical with it. Something like responding to the RAMpocalypse …read more Continue reading Making RAM at Home in Your Own Semiconductor Fab