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Andrei Warkentin retweeted
New exiting guest post!! My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/… – at Renfrew, Scotland
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1991 NT on a MIPS DEC 5000 facebook.com/share/v/1EB2gbN… Mindblowing.
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virtuallyfun.com/2023/06/15/… so now we have proof in 2026 it was real! Just need a guide…
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Kernel taken from "jeffpar-wow-reversi-mips" for the R3000 mips cpu, apparently.
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Andrei Warkentin retweeted
Here's an almost impossible question: What's the best game ever made by MicroProse? Silent Service (1985) Gunship (1986) Pirates! (1987) Airborne Ranger (1987) F-19 Stealth Fighter (1988) Red Storm Rising (1988) M1 Tank Platoon (1989) F-15 Strike Eagle II (1989) Railroad Tycoon (1990) Silent Service II (1990) Knights of the Sky (1990) Civilization (1991) Gunship 2000 (1991) Darklands (1992) Master of Orion (1993) X-COM: UFO Defense (1994) Master of Magic (1994) Colonization (1994) Transport Tycoon (1994) Civilization II (1996) Master of Orion II (1996) Grand Prix 2 (1996) Falcon 4.0 (1998) Alpha Centauri (1999) RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999) B-17 Flying Fortress (2000) Note: That's just a selection... they created even more than that.
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i486をx86命令でLチカさせようと思ったらこんな大掛かりに😇
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The initial version of the Prolog WinDbg extension is out there: github.com/DumpAnalysis/Prol… The accompanying book will be published later today. Finally, I resumed work that I started more than 15 years ago... dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.…
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Andrei Warkentin retweeted
the Sinclair QL GCC cross is currently frozen at GCC 2.95.3.. I cheated on Linux by saying I was a Dec Alpha as Linux to Linux & it's already a 64bit Little Endian targeting a 32bit Big Endian system. But macOS being its own thing, of course it breaks. .. a quick debug session and Astra nails the problem in 38 seconds. I still can't believe people are in such doubt of the power of this stuff! I ask it nicely to go find and fix the others. Not even 6 minutes. For people interested in old / fringe tech the value of AI cannot be a better value/addition to tooling! Sure, it didn't come up with the idea of saying 'Hello, I'm a Dec Alpha', but it totally ran with it! Stuff like this usually ended up with me running tools under so many layers of emulation and now.. Wow. It's almost a crisis of purpose, like what am I even here for? Giving hints to the system?
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Bought a Numworks calculator - native uPython and OSS firmware, right? Then it turns out, courtesy of public education outrage, new versions lock fw updates down, and removed CAS. Because think of the kids…
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Be like SwissMicros. Don’t be lke Numworks.
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@NumWorks how about selling an adult-rated (“engineering”) version?
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It’s a shame too. The Numworks calc is nice, but I have the gimped version - N0120.
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Andrei Warkentin retweeted
One of the hidden benefits of reading old books is that they rescue you from the arrogance of the present.
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Andrei Warkentin retweeted
"Vibe coded stuff 'almost' works right." Me: Have you missed the last 50 years of human-developed software?
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Andrei Warkentin retweeted
Ported the USB CH375B DOS driver to Book386 Linux (2.2.26) - now you can enjoy USB storage on your Book386 Linux as well :) Sources, binary and howto here astr0baby.online/Book386/ch3…
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So the productivity boost from AI coding tools for systems stuff is obviously great, but it only works when used by folks who’ve actually done stuff and can review and guide/prompt. Ie basically can lead others.
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Humans and AI need specs, but why would it need to be an industry spec and not YOUR OWN requirements? Is using an industry spec always the right choice?
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Anyway, the other thing that might happen is realising proprietary software really is too expensive for what it is. Given that it is getting dangerously easy to clone anything you like…
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