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2025 2

  1. p-tracker
  2. Site update

2022 4

  1. CP/M-65
  2. programming
  3. CP/Mish
  4. Cowgol 2.0

2021 9

  1. EmuTOS on the AlphaSmart Dana
  2. b-tracker
  3. A simulator for the OBP spaceflight computer
  4. POLF: a game for the Commodore PET
  5. Polf
  6. Fuzix on the Raspberry Pi Pico (update)
  7. Fuzix on the Raspberry Pi Pico
  8. Porting Fuzix to the ESP8266... on video
  9. Writing 800kB Mac disks with FluxEngine

2020 6

  1. WordGrinder 0.8 released!
  2. WordGrinder
  3. 6303 arithmetic: more dull than you think
  4. Cowgol 2.0: this time it's useful
  5. Jumping ahead with Cowgol 2.0
  6. Old but freely distributable compilers

2019 16

  1. Building a keyboard from an old portable (electronic) typewriter
  2. My new book
  3. Child of the Sea and the Stars
  4. Writing a lunar lander game for an actual lunar lander
  5. Live coding a compiler for CP/M, from scratch
  6. Live coding a vi for CP/M, from scratch
  7. Performing a brain transplant on a Toshiba T1000
  8. R.T. Russell's Z80 BBC Basic is now open source
  9. Resurrecting CP/M, or at least CP/Mish
  10. Live coding an assembler for CP/M
  11. A small, portable and thoroughly evil Forth interpreter
  12. Demonstration and teardown of a Canon TypeStar 4 portable typewriter
  13. TypeTalk: smalltalk about Javascript
  14. The Brother LW-30: a typewriter, not a computer
  15. FluxEngine demo reel
  16. FluxEngine released!

2018 16

  1. Christmas in Scotland (again)
  2. Seven CP/M programming languages on one floppy (and a game)
  3. WordGrinder 0.7.2 released!
  4. 13kg of IBM electric typewriter
  5. Replacing the motherboard on a Psion 3a organiser
  6. How to write a game on a ZX81
  7. Rapidly rendering fractals on stupidly unsuitable machines
  8. A twelve second Mandelbrot on the BBC Micro
  9. Adventures in video editing
  10. Cowgol 0.5 released!
  11. Z80 arithmetic: also surprisingly terrible
  12. Cowgol 0.4 released!
  13. jpegfinder vs. the Hubsan H107D
  14. 6502 arithmetic and why it is terrible
  15. Cowgol 0.2 released!
  16. Calculon

2017 3

  1. Cowgol 0.1.1 released!
  2. Sunday walk: Innerthal to (near) Niederurnen
  3. Minix QD

2016 1

  1. Narcissus

2015 5

  1. Fuzix port for the MSP430
  2. WordGrinder 0.6 released!
  3. 2015 04 23 cyprus
  4. Narcissus 0.1 released!
  5. Ancient BBC Micro software

2014 2

  1. A Random Walk Through Ada
  2. Flooded Moon

2013 13

  1. Flooded Moon
  2. PiFace v0.3
  3. thickishstring
  4. Conway's Game of Life (as a GNU Make macro)
  5. Luje
  6. Return of the comments
  7. Just found some Cybiko software
  8. Random Cybiko hacking
  9. Luje 0.1 released!
  10. PiFace: a bare metal boot loader for the Raspberry Pi
  11. WordGrinder 0.4 released!
  12. Clue
  13. Calculon 0.1 released!

2012 6

  1. The Water Horse's Fireplace
  2. Iceland
  3. Cowjac
  4. Cowbel 0.2 released!
  5. Cowbel
  6. Cowbel 0.1 released!

2011 11

  1. Cowj 0.2 out now
  2. Cowj GWT library
  3. Cowj released
  4. Prime Mover, spey updates
  5. Prime Mover
  6. Spey
  7. Hacking the Kindle
  8. Hacking the Kindle
  9. 2011 04 01 twiny
  10. System graphs
  11. Anstruther in winter

2010 8

  1. Susan Cooper's Wales page update
  2. Giveaway gallery
  3. Transflector 0.1
  4. WebSocket Transflector
  5. LBW 0.1: Linux Binaries on Windows
  6. Linux Binaries on Windows
  7. Prime Mover 0.1.5
  8. Scotland, snowbound

2009 24

  1. 2009 12 23 ruins
  2. Objective Lua 0.1
  3. WordGrinder 0.3.3
  4. HershTrans 0.1
  5. HershTrans
  6. Go, going forward
  7. On Go
  8. By appointment only
  9. Return to Korea
  10. Objective Lua 0.0.1
  11. Objective Lua
  12. Cowlark 2.0
  13. gaim-citadel
  14. Melissa 0.3
  15. Melissa
  16. A short guide to building a gcc cross-compiler
  17. Welcome to Korea
  18. Dallas photos, unclassifiable
  19. A first look at the SheevaPlug
  20. Hjal's explorations
  21. Special Effect
  22. Winter in Lochcarron
  23. Dallas gallery
  24. Ulysses 31

2008 12

  1. Clue 0.5
  2. R2 0.1
  3. R2
  4. Spey 0.5.pre1
  5. WordGrinder 0.3.2
  6. GEOS software
  7. Bryan Krubb
  8. Melissa 0.2
  9. Batman Reborn
  10. Rozzie Potatoes
  11. Illegal Music Downloads
  12. How to set up a Hercules Graphics card under Linux and still stay reasonably sane

2005 2

  1. ALSA MIDI Mapper
  2. The Giant of Ytric

2004 1

  1. Random Musical Stuff

2003 1

  1. Amstrad Hardware Recyling

2002 5

  1. My Diary
  2. Foo Fighter
  3. Meta
  4. Susan Cooper's Wales: A Literary Pilgrimage
  5. Miscellaneous Unix Software

2001 4

  1. Silicon Castles
  2. Vbcc z compiler
  3. Bazic
  4. Sqmail

1999 1

  1. DOS software

1998 1

  1. Mercat

1995 2

  1. Conversation with a Stranger
  2. The Most Ancient Mariner of All

1994 1

  1. Protostar