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State of multi-player Wayland
54+ min ago (406+ words) I’ve been fascinated by the idea of attaching multiple mice to one computer, and then having multiple mouse cursors inside of one desktop environment! I just spent three weeks investigating how well that’s currently supported on Linux & Wayland. Let me…...
Amiga 1000: ten years ahead of its time
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (559+ words) We all know the original Amiga was far ahead of its time, and the Amiga really doesn’t need more retrospectives and glazing. However, that doesn’t mean we don’t want more Amiga retrospectives and glazing. I’m not sure I even saw…...
“Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM”
1+ week, 1+ day ago (451+ words) The Verge reviewed the latest Surface Laptop, which only comes with 8GB of RAM at a higher price than the previous 16GB model, and they conclude that Windows isn’t really usable on 8GB of RAM. Whether that’s true or not I do not…...
New Intel Itanium emulator boots Itanium version of Windows XP and 2003
1+ week, 3+ day ago (431+ words) It was only a few weeks ago that we got a massively improved Alpha emulator, capable of running VMS, Windows 2000, and Tru64, including X11 support and a variety of other exciting features. Today, we’ve got another major emulation milestone. The emulation space…...
Microsoft releases its weird ’90s IRC client as open source
1+ week, 5+ day ago (333+ words) Out of all the bloody things Microsoft could release as open source, they chose the world’s weirdest IRC client they shipped in the late ’90s that nobody used or even remembered? What on earth is happening? Microsoft Comic Chat is a…...
Haiku gets NetBSD’s NVMM, beta 6 release planned for August
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (509+ words) Haiku has another buy month of development activity to detail, and there’s a big ticket item this time, even if the developers themselves don’t consider it so. The thing that should be the biggest news item this month is that…...
Linux ported to the Atari Jaguar
3+ week, 15+ hour ago (211+ words) Only a few days ago we had Linux on the Mega Drive, and someone took that as a challenge, so now we have Linux on the Atari Jaguar. The Jaguar has a very different architecture than the Mega Drive, but…...
Improved DEC Alpha emulator runs Windows 2000 for Alpha and OpenVMS and Tru64 with X11
3+ week, 2+ day ago (477+ words) Colour me positively surprised, as I had no idea Alpha emulation had progressed this much. As you might know, I’m involved a bit in the OpenVMS community and the Alpha emulation side via AXPBox. AXPBox (github) is a fork of…...
Composite video on the NES: why’s it so wobbly?
3+ week, 2+ day ago (197+ words) The Nintendo Entertainment System. Is it the platonic ideal of an 8-bit video game system? Well, only because it’s so prominent and successful– it’s actually kind of an oddball in its expandability and design. But there’s something else about it....
Vulkan-netbsd brings Vulkan to NetBSD
3+ week, 5+ day ago (363+ words) NetBSD is the only BSD without a Vulkan stack (Mesa and Lavapipe), but that’s about to change. The effort to bring Vulkan to NetBSD is now in beta, with prebuilt binaries coming soon. Mesa configures, compiles, links, installs, and registers…...