#retrocomputing

TinyBubbles won a 4 KB C64 game competition. Here are the tricks that make it fit in 3,810 bytes of 6502 assembly.

A Cisco CP-9951 was supposed to be an office phone. Mine now runs DOOM. Not a video of DOOM. Not a...

Maker KB Sriram rebuilt a 1928 mechanical number sieve using 30 ATtiny412 chips and an RP2040, and the century-old math still checks out perfectly.

Introduction: The Vision Behind Visual6502 The Visual6502 project began as a conceptual...

Olimex's Neo6502kbd Hides Real: Olimex put a genuine WDC W65C02 under a wedge-shaped keyboard, paired it with an RP2040 for video and USB, and priced the Apple II tribute at 50 euros.

ESP32 CHIP-8 Computer Runs: No battery, no wall wart. A Stirling engine and a candle push enough current to run an ESP32 CHIP-8 machine with an OLED and a 16-key hex pad.

Transformers on Retro Consoles: Running Real LLM Inference on a 1.79 MHz NES and a 93 MHz...

Homebrew Motorola 68000 Gets: A 1979 CPU and a 1990s bus, wired together by hand: 10 MHz 68000, an FPGA host bridge, and PCI graphics and Ethernet cards that actually work.

Discover how a developer revived Microsoft Word 1.1a for Windows 11, download the emulator and relive the classic word processor without AI bloat.

A Cambridge Student Writes an Operating System In the late 1970s, a Cambridge computer...

August 12, 1981: The Day the PC Was Born 45 years ago today, on August 12, 1981, IBM...

Working Apollo DSKY Replica: A maker rebuilt the Apollo DSKY with a Raspberry Pi, Arduinos, and open-source VirtualAGC. Every CAD file and schematic is free, so you can build one too.