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Though the Atari ST was a superior machine.

According to users of the Kaypro II from that time, it was a very robust machine. It was even used on the 1984 Paris Dakar edition.

So, LZEXE was written on an Amstrad PC1512 (of course in 8086 assembly).

One of the best pieces of advice about software engineering as well.

"The A1200 is essentially a Linux single-board computer running emulation, possibly one of the UAE (Ultimate Amiga Emulators) that have been around for decades. What makes The A120…

One great musician to listen to during late coding sessions.

"Can we use a distributed database instead? If the answer is ‘Yes’, why go for blockchain at all? Indeed, blockchain is slower and more resource-intensive." The key factor when ass…

From at I remember, at least in Europe, it's only from 1994-1995 that you could start thinking having a better proposition with a PC than with an Amiga/Atari ST. In order to surpas…

We often hear about the seminal Popular Electronics magazine, but interesting to see that some others have had also a huge influence. The Radio-Electronics TV Typewriter magazine i…

To be honest, I find it sometimes pleasing, like when introducing some new programming libs: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui-concepts/explo...

French readers are blessed with Abandonware Magazines and more than 20k scanned magazines: https://www.abandonware-magazines.org/

Glad to see those valuable principles written, even if it seems we are heading in the complete opposite. At least we can try to apply them on our side business. These were also tru…

Yes, the Coursera title was "Cryptography I", so I was expecting another part, but ten years after, I still do not see any. A great course anyway.

As a regular user of this wonderful archive.org project, I found it a pitty that no agreement could be found with editors such as Hachette regarding old books. Without archive.org,…

Beautiful. And so ambitious, when you realize there is even one to teach assembly language to kids. They were also translated in French and quite popular.

Yes, maybe something like that (preview only): Usborne introduction to electronics: https://archive.org/details/usborneintroduct0000beas Fun with electronics: https://archive.org/d…

"In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unveiled Zealandia, a long-lost continent submerged beneath the ocean's surface for 375 years."

Go almost instant build time is a huge productivity boost when compared to Java. You get both the solidity of a typed language, and the development speed of interpreted languages (…

The five gold ingots, used as currency by Chinese traders, were among the treasures picked up by some discreet divers around 1975 from the ocean floor off the coast of France. The …