"The penalty with LLMs is that you eventually run out of people's work to steal"

Now the #zest UI supports text input from the keyboard. #fpga #atari #atarist #retrocomputing

Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source." https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html #geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi

#zest release: important bug fix, MIDI logging https://zest.sector1.fr/posts/release_20260103/ #atari #atarist #fpga #retrocomputing

Happy new #zest release! Now with a virtual disk drive, RTC clock support, and various fixes. https://zest.sector1.fr/posts/release_20260101/ #atari #atarist #fpga #retrocomputing

I am currently debugging #zest's upcoming GEMDOS drive. This is taking longer than expected! A release should come once all bugs are solved. #atari #fpga #retrocomputing

LFT keeps LFTing. Yes, you want to listen to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGbGGllQoE #bolero #8bit #chiptune

Quand éclatera la bulle IA… Et de la saturation technologique https://ploum.net/2025-11-01-eclatement-bulle-ia.html lire sur #gemini #geminiprotocol : gemini://ploum.net/2025-11-01-eclatement-bulle-ia.gmi

Le Ulule de DEMO a dépassé les 105 000 €, tous les backers recevront donc une copie des jeux développés pour le film ! Plus que 5 jours ! Par Alex Pilot et Overscan Committee https://fr.ulule.com/demo-par-alex-pilot

Whaou, la scène démo sur le canal YouTube du Ministère de la Culture française! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_skK...

Le crowdfunding du nouveau projet d'Alex Pilot est lancé ! = DEMO - Un film double face / double densité par Alex Pilot = https://fr.ulule.com/demo-par-alex-pilot/ #demoscene

Nouvelle version de mon pilote de clavier PC pour #atarist, qui supporte désormais la disposition #ergol. https://zerkman.sector1.fr/index.php?post/2025/09/23/ZKBD-v1.4 #atari #retrocomputing #ergonautes

AI on zeST, my #fpga #atarist clone. Turbo mode helps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOV1Hz0Gmys #atari #retrocomputing

This video shows a game engine some might recognize, running on an unmodified* Atari Falcon from 1992. Doug Little, a.k.a dml, is the true G.O.A.T. *) It has 14MB RAM, which is the maximum you could upgrade to at the time and fully originally supported, as well as an FPU in the FPU-socket […]

Yesterday I finished the Galactic Panic game for #atarist ! The overall quality is really good. It is clear @I_am_I put a lot of passion in it, with particular attention to detail and a desire to ensure we have a good time playing. I had a lot of fun playing the French version :) The dialogues […]

New release for Shifter Inside, your screen resolution expander for the #atarist. It mainly fixes problems and bugs from the previous version. https://zerkman.sector1.fr/index.php?post/2025/08/30/Shifter-Inside-v1.1 #atari #retrocomputing

New #zest release: Faster turbo, improved ACSI, Wi-Fi Get your update now! https://zest.sector1.fr/posts/release_20250814/ #atari #atarist #fpga #retrocomputing

640x276 pixel resolution on a plain #atarist. 672x276 on a STe. All that using software tricks ; no hardware mod required. Here is Shifter Inside! Enjoy! https://zerkman.sector1.fr/index.php?post/2025/08/11/Shifter-Inside-v1.0 #atari #retrocomputing

Life is a clafoutis #ataridemotitlebutwithclafoutis

I managed to get Wi-Fi running on the #zest 's #fpga board, thanks to a USB Wi-Fi dongle. Now let’s write some UI setup code and find useful stuff to do with it! #atari #atarist #retrocomputing

I'm stuck in Galactic Panic.

I have improved the hard disk “firmware code” in #zest, so now it supports most standard ACSI/SCSI commands and error codes. Now partitioning tools work, so you can configure new drives from the running Atari without the need of an emulator on PC. zeST is also ready to support multiple drives […]

You had me at "Prioritizes non-commercial content" The Marginalia search engine. Not a front end for other indexes but has its own crawler. https://marginalia-search.com/

"35% of the US stock market is held up by five or six companies buying GPUs." Ed Zitron, The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

Have you ever come up with (according to you) such a clever name for a project that you feel the need to actually go through with the idea just because of it? There's no performant open source hard disk driver for the retro Atari ST platform. We have the absolutely awesome HD Driver from Uwe […]

If you want to have some good fun, go and get "Galactic Panic: A Questionable Adventure" by @I_am_I . It works on #zest ! https://oldbytes.space/@I_am_I/114851586142275461 #atari #atarist #retrogaming

The #zest Atari ST FPGA implementation is absolutely awesome. Running it on a MicroPhase Z7-Lite from Aliexpress and it's just perfect. Additionally, I have a #deskhop built up that I connected it to which means I now have an Atari ST connected to one of my main workstation monitors that uses […]

I'm back from Sommarhack... had to finish the demo on the party place so it's kind of glitchy and not quite what I had in mind originally, but heck, at least i made the deadline! And yes, some people will hate it, I'm used to that 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePhf...

turboerer #zest #atari #atarist #fpga #retrocomputing

btw, turboer #zest #atari #atarist #fpga #retrocomputing

I moved all my public Git repos from #github to #codeberg. This was my last dependency to enshittified AI-powered/#GAFAM services. #enshittification

Finally, a new #zest release! It's a big one with turbo mode (50 MHz!), MIDI support and various fixes. Enjoy! https://zest.sector1.fr/posts/release_20250627/ #atari #atarist #retrocomputing #fpga

Help fund mikro who's currently out-of-pocket having sponsored sending off the Atari Falcon 030 custom ICs for decapping/delayering/die-shots. All results will be published openly so I hope the #atari retro collective can come together footing the bill. https://mikrosk.github.io/decap/

This was a post leaking the fact that SYNC will release something at #sommarhack 2025. #atarist

Progress!

Here is what a naive "change to med res", "wait a bit", "change to low res", "wait a bit", and loop, looks like on my STE. Ship it!

There could be some new #zest features in there. Worth checking! https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ggn/114637645480126578

turbo #zest #atari #atarist #fpga #retrocomputing

I've finally set up my Matrix account! I couldn't find any public #retrocomputing, #atarist, #fpga or #demoscene chat rooms though. I can just wait and count on the Discord enshittification process to see the different communities switch to Matrix. Not sure how long it will take though.

Macron is another kind of liar full of himself. He's dismantling public services while pretending France would be a safe heaven for US scentists.

MIDI is a specialised serial interface to connect music equipment such as keyboards, synthesisers and computers. On #atarist it was not only used for music, making the ST one of the most effective machines to manage a home studio, but also as a generic communication interface between a group of […]

Why do I prefer hardware hacks among all the #revision2025 releases ? Here is a "video" to be shown on an oscilloscope in X/Y mode. But the X and Y signals also are the L and R audio. So you can display cool, animated stuff using WAV files […]

RISC-V as a #demoscene platform is becoming reality. Here is Kaleidoscopico, a demo running on #raspberrypi Pico 2, presented at Revision Party last weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhhLoVBpg48 #riscv

#AtariST arrived at #revision2025 @revisionparty

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power. https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

The AI bots that desperately need OSS for code training, are now slowly killing OSS by overloading every site. The curl website is now at 77TB/month, or 8GB every five minutes. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/