Category: AROS
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Guru Meditation
I spent several hours today in silent meditation, although I haven’t been able to clear my mind for even the span of a single breath. On the plus side, I discovered that I’m able to sit cross-legged with a straight posture for extended periods of time. The original Amiga OS had a unique crash screen […]
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Can You Write 8-bit Code?
Have you ever tried to write software for a 6502 or other 8-bit processor? I tried so many times, since I was a child, to write anything of significance, and it is just so tedious. Nowadays, I’m curious the sort of psychology of someone who wants to go all the way back to the 8-bit […]
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Fun Facts About AROS
Before I got sidetracked by writing dozens of posts about the things I’d been posting to Twitter before I deleted my Twitter account because of Elon Musk, I was really excited about my plan to port AROS, the open-source clone of AmigaOS, to run on QEMU’s Mac Quadra 800 emulation, as a stepping-stone to running […]
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Too Many Hobby Projects on GitHub
I started this blog mostly to rant about how cryptocurrency is a scam and a fraud. I think I can now safely bask in the correctness of everything I’ve written on that subject. “Crypto” was and is entirely a scam and a fraud, and more people are waking up to the scope and scale of […]
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AROS for Mac
I’m hoping to make some progress this weekend on my AROS (AmigaOS) clone for QEMU’s Mac Quadra 800, which apparently runs too quickly to boot a normal Mac Toolbox ROM? I mean, that’s my theory because I don’t care to run 68k MacOS, but it would be a testament to Apple’s poor software quality control […]
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The Soul of The Amiga
I’ve been fascinated by computers ever since I was a little kid, as with many of my generation, the first to have the opportunity to own their own computers that we could write software for. There was a lot of brand loyalty, mostly because different brands weren’t compatible with each others’ software (until IBM PC […]