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GUI64 – GUI for the Commodore 64 running on top of the built-in ROM

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-11-02 Cached

GUI64 is a graphical user interface for the Commodore 64 that runs as a layer on top of the built-in Kernal ROM, offering windowed file management for floppies and SD2IEC disk images, with version 2.1 adding Windows-like and other interface variants.

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My Favourite Laptop

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-11-02 Cached

A personal blog post praising a second-hand 2015 ThinkPad X250 as the author's favourite laptop, highlighting its size, battery life, repairability, keyboard, and low cost as a Linux daily driver.

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The future in old computer magazines (1984–2004)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-11-02 Cached

A retrospective look at how old computer magazines from 1984–2004 envisioned the future, from smart-home controllers and online services to AI-powered software, illustrated with vintage ads and reviews.

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5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-30 Cached

A five-year retrospective on OqtaDrive, a hobby project that emulates Sinclair Microdrives and later became an internet gateway for the vintage Sinclair Network, covering its evolution from an Arduino Nano prototype to a mature tool with 34 releases.

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My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-29 Cached

A developer details their ongoing project porting classic Mac OS to Nintendo's ArtX-based PowerPC hardware (GameCube, Wii, Wii U), successfully reaching the desktop on the Wii for what's likely the first time outside Apple since the CHRP clone era, covering OpenBIOS porting, EXI-bus disk drivers, and boot challenges.

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16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-29 Cached

Sixteen Colors (16colo.rs) 是一个在线 ANSI/ASCII 艺术档案库,收藏源自 90 年代 BBS 文本模式时代的 artpacks,并提供标签、搜索、上传、协作绘图、SAUCE 元数据编辑和社区聊天等功能。

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Extremely brief history of PDP computers

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-29 Cached

A brief historical overview of DEC's PDP computer lineage, tracing how the PDP-1 through VAX shaped early hacker culture and directly influenced the development of Unix, C, Emacs, Lisp, and other foundational software.

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Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-27 Cached

Cuis Smalltalk is a free, simple and portable Smalltalk-80 environment, with recent news covering the Cuis 7.8 release, a community demo meeting on AI-assisted development, and the project's presence at Smalltalks 2026.

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16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-27 Cached

winevdm (otvdm) 是一个 16 位 Windows 模拟器的修改版,移植到 64 位 Windows 上,可在现代系统中直接运行 Windows 1.x/2.x/3.0/3.1 等 Win16 程序和部分 DOS 可执行文件。

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Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-26 Cached

一个技术博客探索了能在 Windows 11 上不加修改直接运行的最古老 GUI 程序,最终发现 1992 年 11 月链接的 CDPLAYER.EXE(来自 NT 3.1 预发布 Build 347)仍可运行,甚至用 otvdm 模拟器还能运行 1985 年的 REVERSI.EXE。

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Commodore 1600 VICmodem

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-26 Cached

A retrospective on the Commodore 1600 VICmodem, launched in 1982 as the first modem priced under $100, which brought affordable online access to VIC-20 owners despite its manual-dialing limitations and noisy signal.

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LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-25 Cached

An exploration of how much you can do with LISP when limited to 64K bytes of memory, comparing modern Kilo LISP to historical implementations on the IBM 704 and DEC PDP-1, including vintage sample programs.

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Assembly Nights

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-25 Cached

A personal account of spending nighttime sessions on a 2007 Asus eeePC porting Richard WM Jones's JONESFORTH from GAS to NASM syntax, sharing the setup, motivations, and challenges of learning x86 assembly language.

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MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-25 Cached

A release of the MacOS Extensions Pack v1.0 that fixes or works around many preproduction ROM issues on the 1996 Apple Network Server, enabling working on-board video, MACE Ethernet, and proper restarts while preserving AIX boot support.

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Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-25 Cached

1998年洛杉矶时报报道了南加州的BeatDown等LAN派对潮流,玩家们自带电脑通宵联机,探讨虚拟社区对线下互动的需求。

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A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-24 Cached

A nostalgic deep dive into the history of SDF (Super Dimension Fortress), a public-access UNIX system and online community running continuously since 1987, tracing its roots back to the BBS era of the 1980s.

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Four Years with Decker

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-20 Cached

John Loomis 的年度回顾,总结 Decker(受 HyperCard 启发的创作环境)过去一年在 1.61 到 1.71 之间的进展,包括 gamepad 支持、Lil 语言改进、新的 IMG3 图像压缩编码以及用户社区作品亮点。

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ZX Spectrum Next Laptop

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-19 Cached

一位爱好者展示了自制的 ZX Spectrum Next 笔记本电脑第二版,采用 3D 打印外壳、原装 Next 键盘、14 英寸屏幕和自制 PCB,解决了初代设计在铰链、屏幕兼容性与键盘方面的问题。

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The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-19 Cached

Annotated disassembly and documentation of the original 8 KiB VT100 terminal firmware, covering its workings, bugs, oddities, and an 8080 coverage checker tool.

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BBC Master Pi 1MHz Domesday

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-19 Cached

Dominic Plunkett updated the BBC Micro PiMHz software to emulate most of the BBC AIV hardware, including the LV player, enabling the Domesday disc to run with a trackball/mouse and PiTubeDirect. The video explains the PiMHz implementation, setup, and demos the Community and National Discs.

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