1+ hour, 49+ min ago  (524+ words) Hackaday Ever since it was called Open Be OS, Haiku has targeted the x86 platform That makes good sense: it's hard enough maintaining a niche system on ubiquitous hardware But x86 isn't the only game in town anymore Apple's doing very well…...

1+ day, 34+ min ago  (1694+ words) {"0":"Original Play Station Brought Up To Date'Hackaday In a satisfying blend of classic console restoration and modern modding, [Elliot] from the Retro Future channel has transformed a broken, dirty Play Station into what they call the "ultimate PS1." Pico Station Zero…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (446+ words) What can you do with a laptop enough to drink even in the Puritan ex-colonies? 21 years is a long time for computer hardware" but [Chris] is using his early-2004 i Book G4 for game dev thanks to Net BSD. Some of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1038+ words) Recently [ETA Prime] felt a bit underwhelmed by the raw performance of his Mac Book Neo when it came to running for extended periods under full load, such as when gaming. Thus the obvious solution is to mildly over-engineer a…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (651+ words) Long ago, in the aftermath of the UNIX wars, three kernels emerged from the rubble: BSD, Linux, and Hurd. BSD, being UNIX, was held back by legal wrangling in the aftermath of the wars, and that allow. .. Long ago, in…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1902+ words) The holidays are rapidly approaching, and you probably already have a topic or two to argue with your family about. But what about with your hacker friends? We came upon an old favorite the other day: whether it "counts" as…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (903+ words) This project gives a whole new meaning to DIY PC. We don't know how capable you were as a teenager, but'could you have designed your own Ryzen-based mini PC? Whilst we're on the subject of building PCs, here's a DIY…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (521+ words) Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn't need another operating system, but [Scott Baker] obviously disagrees. He has come up with a brand new, from scratch OS called Nost OS for the Z80-based RC2014 h. .. Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn't need another…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (471+ words) [caption id="attachment_1075618" align="alignright" width="396"] A Taito Egret II mini arcade cabinet. [/caption] A while back [Jack] came across a Taito arcade game that neither he nor any of his mat. .....

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (632+ words) Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this week, he mentioned his favorite kind of hack: the community-developed open-source firmware that can be flashed into a commercial product that has crappy fi. .. Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this…...