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Category: Retrocomputing

Retrocomputing Series: Overview

Amiga 500 Plus

An overview of the list of old (pre-2010) computers that I plan to talk about in future blog posts.

Published 2022-01-17
Categorized as Retrocomputing Tagged Acorn, Amiga, ARM, Atari ST, BASIC, BBC BASIC, Commodore, IBM Z, OpenVMS, OS/2, PowerMac, retrocomputing, RISC OS, Solaris, UltraSPARC, VAX, X68000, z/OS

Fixing C++ Exception Handling on NetBSD/vax

Repost from my old blog on fixing C++ exception handling for NetBSD/vax. Originally written in Mar. 2016.

Published 2022-01-14
Categorized as Retrocomputing, VAX Tagged C++, GCC, NetBSD, retrocomputing, VAX

Status of My Amiga 4000 Emulator Project

This post is mostly links to Twitter threads where I wrote about the progress of my new Amiga 4000 emulator (work in progress), along with an introduction.

Published 2022-01-10
Categorized as Amiga, Retrocomputing Tagged Amiga, Amiga 4000, emulation, QEMU

Coming Up: Amiga to IBM Z

I have a few more posts to write about the current Bitcoin and cryptocurrency situation, but first I want to write about a few topics that are dearer to my heart: retrocomputing and the hybrid of old and new that is IBM Z, an architecture that’s backwards compatible with software written for the original System/360,… Continue reading Coming Up: Amiga to IBM Z

Published 2022-01-06
Categorized as Mainframes, Retrocomputing Tagged Amiga, IBM Z, mainframes, z/OS

Retrocomputing: PowerPC Part 1

In this post, from Apr. 5, 2021, I describe some of my adventures with retrocomputing which helped me to land the job I have now at Zwift.

Published 2021-12-27
Categorized as Retrocomputing Tagged Gentoo, Linux, POWER9, PowerMac, PowerPC, QEMU, retrocomputing

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