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Thanks for sharing! What was your role at Hyde Field?

The Sequential Prophet X is another modern synth with a full-blown x86 PC running inside it. You can see the mainboard in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8QDCocnt0M

Really awesome work! A simple OS for retro x86 hardware is a really cool project! I wish I still had some era-appropriate hardware I could test-drive it on.

When the author says 'I tend to run older hardware', how old do they mean? I'm typing this message right now on my Thinkpad x220 from 2011, which is unfortunately too old to run Ze…

One of the coolest projects I've seen in a while! Amazing work! In case anyone missed the write-up^1, it's very well-written. I really enjoyed the chapter about designing the instr…

A lot of effort goes into accurately emulating historic processors in the MAME project, as well as other vintage hardware. It's generally accurate enough that MAME is regularly use…

Very cool! Would you believe I was actually just listening to some of the old Ultima game soundtracks when I saw this? I wonder if they considered writing their disassembly in the …

Thinking about what would be going through Bill Kerman's little head as he approaches the rocket having just seen poor Jebediah Kerman vaporised on the launch pad was pretty funny.…

If I set a folder colour in Finder on my work MacBook, and then plug that USB drive into my personal computer which uses Thunar as a file browser on Debian, nothing would happen.

To me it seems more sensible to store information relevant only to this OS in a specific cache somewhere within that OS. It would even make cache-like functionality such as evictin…

In case anyone doesn't know, Oxyrhynchus is a major source of archaeological discoveries. Particularly ancient (Ptolemaic/Roman Egypt) papyrus fragments recovered from an ancient l…

This isn't the kind of music I'd normally listen to, but I'm enjoying your album! Very well produced. I bought a copy. Thanks for sharing!

The SPARK subset of Ada^1 has a similar kind of move semantics for pointer types^2. 1: SPARK is a formally verifiable subset of Ada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programmin…

> Its unlikely that another platform would be able to reach this state... Is this really true? The computer ecosystem is more open now than ever. The original PC BIOS (which PC-com…

Some of my first experiments with Ada were based on this tutorial series! Great to see it on the front-page of HN. Since this was published, it's become a lot easier to set up an A…

Somewhat related: https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles/b...

Hello! I don't have a website for your webring, but I do run the webri.ng service ( https://webri.ng ), where you can host your webring! Just thought I'd mention it in case it's us…

Speaking as an Australian that works on React CRUD applications because there's nothing else in the market, I've been reading through this thread thinking the exact same thing.

Something about these JS-heavy sites I haven't seen discussed: They don't archive well. Websites that load a big JS bundle, then use that to fetch the actual page content don't get…

At the risk of sounding like a language zealot, have you ever looked at Ada? It was explicitly designed to be very readable, and for use in safety-critical systems. Ada isn't perfe…

Unfortunately the missing ingredient to recreating UO is a playerbase that can see the virtual world with innocent eyes. This HN post[1] always comes to mind. By complete coinciden…

> Tool-wise - refactoring was a bit of a pain. Could you share what tools you were using, and what you felt was missing? I write Ada in vscode, because it's what I use in my dayjob…