Collaborate Disseminate
These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. …read more Continue reading Remember the Tri-Format Floppy Disk?
In a recent video, [Chris Edwards] delves into the past, showing how he turned a Commodore Amiga 3000T into a wireless-capable machine. But forget modern Wi-Fi dongles—this hack involves an …read more Continue reading Retro Wi-Fi on a Dime: Amiga’s Slow Lane Connection
Serena OS is not just another operating system—it’s a playground for hackers, tinkerers, and Amiga enthusiasts pushing vintage hardware to new limits. Born from modern design principles and featuring pervasive …read more Continue reading Amiga, Interrupted: A Fresh Take On Amiga OS
To be an Amiga fan during the dying days of the hardware platform back in the mid 1990s was to have a bleak existence indeed. Commodore had squandered what was …read more Continue reading The Amiga We All Wanted In 1993
Developing for the Amiga used to involve reading dense programming manuals and trial and error. In contrast, developing these days can be as simple as barking orders at ChatGPT to …read more Continue reading Large Language Model Can Help You Develop For The Amiga
Back on the theme of learning to program by taking on a meaningful project — we have another raytracing demo — this time using Rust on the Raspberry Pi. [Unfastener] …read more Continue reading The Juggler: In Rust
If you were the type of person who might have read Hackaday had we been around in the late 1980s or early 1990s, it’s a reasonable guess that you would …read more Continue reading It Wasn’t DOOM That Killed The Amiga
The Commodore 64 has been pulled apart, reverse engineered, replicated, and improved upon to no end over the last four decades or so. The Amiga 500 has had less attention, …read more Continue reading You Can Now Order a Brand-New Amiga PCB
llvm-mos adapts the popular LLVM compiler to target the MOS 6502 processor (the 1980s microprocessor used in early home computing devices like the Apple II and the Commodore 64). So developer Onno Kortman used it to cross-compile semu, a “minimalist RI… Continue reading Can You Run Linux On a Commodore 64?
Replacing their main machine, long-time Slashdot reader shanen had a sobering thought. “Considering how many years it’s lasted and adding that number to my own age, I wouldn’t want to bet on who will outlast which.” And this prompted a look back at all… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Longest-Lived PC?