Friday, January 27, 2023

Here be four bits of dragons: the Mattel Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth Game and the TMS1100

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When my parents sold the house and moved to the great white north, they dropped off a few boxes of my stuff that was still in the garage. ...
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Sunday, January 22, 2023

Bringing TLS to the Magic Cap DataRover

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Today we're adding TLS 1.3 to the one and only web browser on a 36MHz MIPS handheld running Magic Cap , the most unique mobile operati...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Solbournes in space

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Did a few updates to the Solbourne Solace thanks to new stuff people have sent in, Solbourne of course being one of Sun's most nota...
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Sunday, January 15, 2023

SAIC Galaxy 1100: a pre-CDE VUE of the PA-RISC with a security clearance

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Even though I'm a Power ISA bigot through and through (typed on ppc64le !), to this day I still have an enduring sweet spot for Hewlet...
Friday, January 6, 2023

MacLynx beta 4: now with scrollbars and dialogue boxes

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Some things you just gotta get off your Quadra 800's desktop and out to the people. Plus, the Q800's Barracuda SCSI drive is getting...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

The MOS 6502 is (mostly) Turing-complete without registers

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It is known that the x86 MOV instruction is Turing-complete (PDF) all by itself, and is even a compiler target . More usefully, x86 can...
Friday, December 30, 2022

Another weird MOS Pong console: 1976 Allied Leisure Name of the Game II

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If you've ever wanted to play Pong on a miniature Babylonian ziggurat, have I got the machine for you. However, what particularly int...
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