Some of my articles and mastodon threads of interest
Long reads
Mastodon threads
Notes/rants
RAM
DIY tapes and floppies
Pixel?art
Orihime Project
Misc
Screenshots and hacks
Rare/unusual stuff
- Pocket Computer SHARP PC-1246, and a Hamurabi game for it
- Pocket computer SHARP PC-1248 with a printer CE-126P
- Hacking around FiwixOS, a hobbyist Linux clone
- Windows 95 with EGA and CGA - including Quake running on CGA
- Converting Windows 95 MINI.CAB pre-install environment into a full desktop without using Windows distributions
- Windows 1/2/3 display driver backwards compatibility
- VisiCorp VisiOn (1983) - videos of the user interface
- Philips Ease Desktop for MSX, 1988
- BK-0010, soviet desktop PDP-11 clone, running all sorts of soft
- Windows 95 running on a monochrome 386SX VGA laptop
- Japanese operating system B-right/V version 4.5 running Chokanji system - BTRON implementation
- Japanese operating system EOSystem 3 for PC98
- Chinese operating system UCDOS and shell UCShell - Windows 3 simulacrum
- Soviet operating shell MASTER/МАСТЕР, plus Lexicon and Word&Deed text editors
- GEOS/NewDeal Office on 80286
- Kyocera Keitai 2, an imported Japanese flip phone running
Android
- PC98 various editors, DOSShell, Win3, Win95
- GEM/3 on Apricot
Old stuff
- Music making on Pentium 2 / Windows 98: Guitar Pro, microLogic, Fruity Loops
- Ubuntu 4.10 is a Knoppix derivative?! Plus Morphix and rare Knoppix 2.0 and 3.2 screenshots
- Visual Basic 1.0 tour + Turbo Pascal for Windows
- Windows 3.1 with true color VESA driver, Calmira XP shell and unusual apps
- Minix-vmd running XFree86 and Chimera web browser
- Plamo Linux 3.3 and Gnome 2.2 on PC-9821
- Installing Plamo/98 3.3 Linux/98 on PC-9821 Nw150 laptop
- Installing FreeBSD 8 on PC-9821 Nw150 laptop
- Dragon 32 - Welsh home computer from 1982. Booting up
- Olympia SM4 typewriter - overview
- NEC Versa - music making on i486
- NEC Versa - media and creativity
- NEC Versa - Windows 95 install
- Windows 2.x history - comments thread
- Importing colourful images to stock Windows 1.x/2.x
- Slackware 3.0 from 1995, XFree86, Andrew ATK and ez word processor
- Debian 2 and Debian 3 - XFree86 setup, Gnome 1.4, Gimp 1.x, some KDE 2.2 apps, Mozilla 1.0, WindowMaker,
IceWM, FVWM95
- Debian 0.91 BETA - Linux 0.99, X11, gcc 2 and GIMP 0.60
- MS Word on Mac Classic
- Minix 2 for Apricot PC Xi
- Trying to figure out how win100.bin created
- Windows 1.03 for Apricot PC/Xi
- Norton Commander patch for Apricot Xi - broken
- OS/2 Warp 3 screenshots
- Internet Explorer 5 and Windows 95 installer using CGA driver. Bonus: EGA Win95
- Windows NT 3.51 screenshots
Tech teardown and repair
Primitive? tech
Are simple things as simple as they seem?
Random experiments