Friday, June 19, 2026

Bobby Prince has died

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Bobby Prince, '90s FPS game musician extraordinare and longtime id Software associate, has died at 81 . Now, early on, there were things...
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Saturday, June 13, 2026

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

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Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but it's been getting pretty old dragging ...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Ahoy, DECmate II! the little PDP-8 that could

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In 1982, as we mentioned at length with our history of the DEC Professional , Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep their PDP-11 m...
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Saturday, May 16, 2026

The Tomy Tutor and the state of 1983 home computers

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The Tomy Tutor was my first computer, in late 1983. I was seven and we got it at Federated . I've acquired several more since then, but...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

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It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network Server , Apple's first through-and...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years

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I almost never buy e-books, but I decided to spring for an electronic copy of David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I eve...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

6o6 v1.1: Faster 6502-on-6502 virtualization for a C64/Apple II Apple-1 emulator

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I'm doing periodic updates on some of my long-term projects, one of them being 6o6, a fully virtualized NMOS 6502 CPU core that runs ...
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