Sunday, October 12, 2025

Back to the Southern Hemisphere Commodore 128DCR

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Pretty sure this will end up as one of my longest-term restoration projects, but I'm back in the Southern Hemisphere for a little whil...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

The end of AOL dialup

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America Online has ceased offering dialup access since first doing so in 1991 ( using GeoWorks ), and presumably any systems attempting to d...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

Refurb weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² IMPACT 10000

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It's one of my periodic downsizing cycles, which means checking the hardware inventory (and, intermittently, discovering things that wer...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Microsoft makes 6502 BASIC open source

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It was probably going to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft has officially released the source code for 6502 BASIC . The specific revisio...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU

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Sorry, Doc Brown: we still needed roads in 1985. That meant paper atlases and misfolded roadmaps and a lot of stereotypical male anxiety a...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop

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I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next natural step from the Motorola 68000 fa...
Monday, July 28, 2025

So I saw this headline

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... and the first thing I thought reading it was, "Is he Deommodore 64?" (No, unfortunately, Deommodore Lenoir's jersey num...
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Thanks for reading. -- Cameron Kaiser