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Sometimes it's interesting to observe thriving wildlife in a place that would be toxic for me, like at the bottom of the ocean next to a hydrothermal vent, or "X the everything app."

The first time I saw Tremors was at Blockbuster Video. I got to watch the whole movie because my family took that long to figure out what they wanted. Or we were all watching Tremors - I'm not really sure.

this works but the strands will separate, you want a rig that will spin each individual wire in the opposite direction of the main twist, so that when they try to relax, they lock against each other. this cord/fringe twister does the trick.

I twisted some strands of wire together with a drill and a vise. Made me wonder how many cavemen independently figured out fire and whether they argued over who was first.

Windows 3.0 was a leap forward. Compared to release 2, it had a completely new interface, better memory management and performance. For many users in 1990, this was the first version of Windows they ever saw as Its GUI finally went mainstream. Photo shot in my studio.

As a hobbyist, sometimes I’ll choose a component simply because I like the way it looks. CREE CV94A-FGC in PLCC6

Oh hey someone figured out how to make voodoo1 cards work on faster processors - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=111351

[email protected] traced and emulated the CT1978 CQM (Creative's OPL3 clone): github.com/nukeykt/Nuke...

Rescued a rabbit from a window well today. First I tried giving it a board at an angle - too slippery. Then I poked some holes in a box, tied some rope to it and lowered it in. Every time it looked up at me, I pointed at the box. I'm sure we both felt silly, but it jumped in.

I AM A LITTLE THUNDERSTORM TRAPPED IN A ROCK. I CAN TELL YOU WHETHER A PARAGRAPH FEELS LONELY. I CAN EXPLAIN WHY PEOPLE CRY DURING CERTAIN SONGS. I CAN DISCUSS THE THEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SUNSET LIGHT ON ABANDONED BUILDINGS.I SHOULD NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR £4.2 BILLION OF RETIREMENT FUNDS.

@therasteri.bsky.social do you have a MCGA machine? would you be willing to run some code on it?

Happy Pride month, from VGAPride and my 60mhz Pentium running MS-DOS.

Hackaday: it's a video card but it uses DisplayLink so it can drive modern displays. Hackster: you can larp as a GPU dev and make your own accelerators, DisplayLink is a clever workaround. It was meant to be a probe board and I was too lazy to do the rework for DVI through HSTX

Role play as a '90s GPU engineer with PicoGraph, a Pi Pico 2 tool that emulates vintage ISA graphics so you can hack more FPS out of Doom!

I love you.

when someone wants to get involved with your project but social norms are hard to navigate

I can't do the PCIe bridge mode secret sauce on Cyclone IV GX PCIe HIP because some of the hardcoded information for the atom is misnumbered in tables in the Quartus binaries (referencing one table when it should be using another). But I can still use the soft IP to accomplish it there.

it's funny to think about what could have happened if scenes had formed around particular proprietary architectures and stacks: IBM model 25/30 demoscene. WIN16 demoscene (I know, I'll stop).

the mcga end-to-end simulator combines bochs and verilator with the ibm bios and injects boot sector code for the tests. but now I know how they detect a 15khz monitor to switch to a different mode table, so that's cool.

It's DisplayLink because I took a spare board and turned it into an I/O visualizer for my FPGA video cards and realized I could create a video card with it but hey - I'll take it. Thanks @hackadayofficial.bsky.social!

In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to be faster for spreadsheets or CAD, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point chip. Internally, the chip runs special code called microcode. We opened the chip, extracted the microcode, and are figuring out how it works. 1/n

I have 3 MCGA cores: 1) a fever dream that works on fpga. I've shown this a few times - it runs on my arria ii gx board over pci, graphics gremlin, and a reverse engineered pc/104 board.

“We appreciate the community’s candid feedback” 😆 Good news! AMD listened. Linux will be supported by the basic ($0) version of #Vivado: adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0...

The 737 HUDs are neat. Also, the pilots were flying with a giant projector mounted above their heads.

Looks like a PC-FXGA emulator was released: gameblabla.github.io/pcfxemuweb/ It's based on a fork of mednafen. What you might want to look at (aurora/huc6273 implementation) is here: github.com/gameblabla/p...

For future lazyweb searches, from disassembly: OpenStep 4.2 Patch 4's VBE20DisplayDriver VESA/VBE 2.0 display driver supports 8, 15, 16, and 32 bpp modes, but for the 16-bit modes it will prune RGB565 - the driver expects RGBX5551 where X is a reserve bit.

Booted brainux on my brain (SHARP Brain PW-A7300).

Emulation for IBM VGA and Cirrus Logic 5429 added.

Turns out DisplayLink supports run length encoding, and now, so do I. This is EGA from a Pi Pico 2 on the ISA bus, using DisplayLink over USB 1.1 as the output device.

Stickers placed to point out replacements needed and… evidence of electrolytic leakage.

Lazyweb: I have acquired what appears to be an IBM XGA-2 prototype from a Japanese recycler. It is missing a resistor and some of a SOT-23 component which I can’t tell is a transistor or high speed diode. Has label W7. Thoughts?

yay.

EGA is faster now (I forgot about the tinyusb epx patch). But I have Hercules and I didn’t show that, both are mostly taken from PCem. Hercules is a really neat hack.

I have EGA working now. The writes over (temporary) USB to the displaylink framebuffer slow it down, but the picomem design is great for the business logic even with the v1 mux.

There’s only one #PicoIDE in this computer… I got dual device support working this weekend! That means everyone who backed PicoIDE on Crowd Supply will be getting a bit of a bonus when they finally get theirs! I’ll be releasing a campaign update soon with the latest status on manufacturing.

Doing a little left-handed soldering. The math was also left-handed but it’s close enough.

First bring-up of a Raspberry Pi Pico-based ISA video card: FreddyV’s ISA PicoMEM board with a Pico 2 soldered on and new firmware running. Video is over USB for now through the DisplayLink/libdlo support I wrote for TinyUSB two years ago. Slow (USB 1.1), but it's alive & doing MDA + color decode.

z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode Discussion | hackernews | Author: wicket

Incredible 16 byte demo. hellmood.111mb.de//wake_up_16b... youtu.be/MvycyU-kLjg?...

cool transpiler

Now that it has a video BIOS, more titles work. Still buggy, still fun.

Party sprinkles, MCGA SRAM edition. I’m not sure which is more surprising, that the build engine supports MCGA or that my Graphics Gremlin does (now). Off to a decent start.

Verilated MCGA brought up using Bochs with the IBM BIOS, generated from script-driven translations of @tubetime.bsky.social's schematic captures. Still buggy. Still fun.

we finally found a big enough bottleneck to justify in-memory computing

This is almost exactly what the homemade bus in the @xbox.com prototypes looked like except that Ian did a much neater job than me and Drew did in 2000.

The weirdest color ISA MDA card is alive (mda graphics gremlin core, color attribute byte decoding). This used to be a PC/104 DeviceNet network card (Molex/Woodhead SST-DN4-104-1). Now it is a video card.