Collaborate Disseminate
[Michael Kohn] started programming on the Motorola 68000 architecture and then, for work reasons, moved over to the Intel x86 and was not exactly pleased by the latter chip’s perceived …read more Continue reading Comparing x86 and 68000 in an FPGA
YouTuber My Developer Thoughts, a self-confessed middle-aged Software Developer, clearly has a real soft spot for the 6502-based 8-bit era machines such as the Commodore 64 and the VIC-20, for …read more Continue reading Using Kick Assembler and VS Code to write C64 Assembler
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
When life hands you a mysterious bit of vintage avionics, your best bet to identifying it might just be to get it in front of the biggest bunch of hardware …read more Continue reading Inside a Mystery Aerospace Computer with [Ken Shirriff]
These days, when most folks think of a computer they imagine a machine with multiple CPUs, several gigabytes of RAM, and a few terabytes of non-volatile storage for good measure. …read more Continue reading CH32V003 Makes for Dirt Cheap RISC-V Computer
Twenty years before the 1997 release of Riven – Cyan’s sequel to the critically acclaimed title Myst – a fruity company in California released the Apple II, a 6502-based microcomputer …read more Continue reading Walking Through a Scene from Riven on the Apple II
At one point, the Motorola 6809 seemed like a great CPU. At the time it was a modern 8-bit CPU and was capable of hosting position-independent code and re-entrant code. …read more Continue reading The 6809 Lives On in an FPGA
Intel processors, at least for PCs, are ubiquitous and have been for decades. Even beyond the chips specifically built by Intel, other companies have used their instruction set to build …read more Continue reading A System Board for the 8008
According to Smithsonian Magazine, a salvage company in London was cleaning out a property and found an odd-looking computer device. No one knew what it was, and they couldn’t find …read more Continue reading One Man’s Trash is… a Rare $60,000 Historical Computer
As those of us who worked in the consumer software world back when physical media was king can attest, when a master disc has been sent for duplication and distribution …read more Continue reading How A DOS Format Blunder Revealed Some Priceless Source Code