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Coasty is a computer-use agent designed to automate interactions with legacy software, mimicking human operation.
A detailed technical blog post about the process of building the open-source game Principia for Windows XP by creating a custom cross-compilation toolchain.
The 0patch team created micropatches to fix security vulnerabilities in Microsoft's abandoned Equation Editor, enabling users to safely continue editing equations without upgrading to costly alternatives.
The article examines the reality behind the popular story that NASA's Voyager spacecraft run on Fortran code that no one can read, clarifying that the onboard software is actually assembly language for specialized hardware, and discusses the challenge of maintaining 1970s-era systems with a shrinking team of aging engineers.