The Curious Engineer

Virtually Fun

2013–2026

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October 2026

  1. AIX 4.3.3 on QEMU with local GUI / X11 & Networking
  2. My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
  3. AIX 4.1.5 on QEMU
  4. Personal Computer Simulator/6000
  5. Data General DG/UX on 86Box
  6. AIX 3.2.5 in QEMU
  7. OS/2 PowerPC Edition on QEMU
  8. Windows NT 4.0 PowerPC on QEMU
  9. Windows NT 3.1 on Alpha AXP Jensen QEMU
  10. Windows NT 3.1 MIPS on QEMU
  11. Windows NT 4.0 MIPS on Siemens RM-200 emulated in QEMU
  12. SINIX-N aka Reliant UNIX on QEMU MIPS
  13. Insignia NTrigue – The Forgotten Citrix X11 Protocol!

September 2026

  1. i960 Unix Workstation – HDS / Neoware @WorkStation

August 2026

  1. Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

July 2026

  1. TTY City – Micropolis (SimCity) For The Terminal!

June 2026

  1. VNC Brave
  2. Pinball on 64-bit Alpha AXP Windows NT

May 2026

  1. Flashing the ES40 Dec Alpha
  2. Brave macOS LAN Access

April 2026

  1. Downgrading the Plexus P20 emulator to Visual C++ 2003
  2. Fun with POSX subsystem on NT
  3. Running back to 2002 (the hard way)
  4. SABRE Fighter Plane Simulator for Windows NT RISC

March 2026

  1. OpenTTD Windows NT RISC
  2. SDLPoP – Price of Persia for Windows NT RISC – Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC
  3. WinTown – Micropolis (SimCity) for NT RISC

February 2026

  1. IM UNDER ATTACK by some kind of weird AI infused DDOS
  2. Yet another GCC 1.40 *SOME ASSEBMLY REQUIRED
  3. OpenVMS 7.3 VAX on SIMH via Docker – With VNC to DEC Windows

January 2026

  1. OpenVMS 9.2-3 x64 now has local console on OPA0
  2. Atari System V UNIX (ASV) virtualized under Hatari

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December 2025

  1. Whitesmiths IDRIS OS for Atari ST Virtualized!

November 2025

  1. MacOS RAR via Finder Quick Actions Extension
  2. OmniOS / Illumos / Solaris / SunOS / ARM64 / AARCH64 on QEMU
  3. MIPS RISC/os on MAME

October 2025

  1. Installing HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) 32bit PA1.1 on QEMU 10.1
  2. rebuilding DOSBox again

September 2025

  1. I just wanted to play Simpsons Hit & Run, or how I really hate Apple peripherals
  2. UNAUTHORIZED WINDOWS/386
  3. How to train your Dragon^H^H AI overlord

August 2025

  1. Today is 30 years since the launch of Windows 95
  2. A quick lookback at Virtual PC for Windows
  3. Microsoft Word 6.0 for PowerPC NT
  4. Web Rendering Proxy 4.9 – Featuring Ultra Fast GIF Render

June 2025

  1. quick note on re-purposing old Windows Hyper-V servers

May 2025

  1. Quick memo from my future self

April 2025

  1. Enjoying some Real Audio on a working Friday
  2. Build your own Apple DTK and save a fortune!

February 2025

  1. Hacking Windows NT 4.0 SMP for more than 2 CPUs

January 2025

  1. Expanding Windows drives
  2. Qemu / GCC / Tiger aka assumptions on GCC v3 performance
  3. Happy 2025!

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December 2024

  1. Merry Christmas 2024!
  2. RCA to HDMI Converter AV to HDMI cable 3 RCA CVBS Composite to 1080P HDMI AV

November 2024

  1. Re-visiting my old favorite cell phone, the Lumia 1520 in late 2024
  2. FrogFind in trouble!

October 2024

  1. Turbo-charging the IBM PS/2 Model 60 286
  2. Manually converting a Proxmox VM to Qemu

September 2024

  1. Windows Server 2008 IA64 (Itanium) guest on HP Integrity VM (HP-UX)
  2. Finding a job in this modern era

August 2024

  1. A modern re-implementation of RCPD (Remote Copy Daemon)
  2. VNCFOX – Better way of browsing modern web on vintage machines
  3. DUX SimCity UNIX aka Micropolis on IRIX 6.5, AIX 4.3, 5.1, HP-UX 11.31
  4. Compiling Linux 0.11 using the December 1991 Windows NT Pre-release

July 2024

  1. Trying to download the latest VMware Workstation Pro?
  2. A quick video on installing Windows NT 4.0 with Wack0’s maciNTosh 0.05
  3. Quick thought on the CrowdStrike outage
  4. Attempting to port Alexander Batalov’s Fallout1-re to RISC
  5. Rairii’s incredible port of ARC & Drivers for NT PowerPC to G3 Macintoshes
  6. WRP 4.8.0 – Simple HTML Mode with Image Support!
  7. RealAudio Personal Server
  8. Installing older version of QEMU on MacOS using Homebrew

June 2024

  1. WRP – Simple HTML / Reader Mode
  2. relax: Segmentation fault
  3. Two things that really annoy me!
  4. Let’s build a Linux kernel from Windows!
  5. Squeezing the bytes out of webhosting & Linux with SquashFS & Overlay
  6. Building MS-DOS 4.00 under OS/2 2.x

May 2024

  1. DooM, GCC & AI
  2. In Defense of the Mac Pro 2023
  3. So everyone is going nuts for free VMware Workstation
  4. Classic Marathon free on STEAM!

April 2024

  1. Compiling MS-DOS 4.0 from DOS 4.0, on a PS/2!
  2. MZ is back, baby! – Source to MS-DOS 4.0 / European DOS / Multi-tasking DOS drivers released!
  3. Rebuilding Darwin from source: Part 3 Debian makes the world go ’round
  4. Rebuilding Darwin from source: Part 2 Building the kernel
  5. Rebuilding Darwin from source: Part 1 Qemu
  6. Adding the missing part of DoomNew – audio
  7. [PC-98] How an obscure fighting game for Japanese PCs can ruin your day

March 2024

  1. Looking at UnixWare 7.1.1 on VMware & Qemu yet again!
  2. Using MIT PC/IP with SLiRP & a virtual Cisco Router
  3. Announcing Cockatrice III 0.5g
  4. Building MIT PC/IP, or making apple pie
  5. So, I used to think Lan Manager Domains and early NT Domains were the same thing
  6. The world vs NetBEUI
  7. Setting up SNA networking with Hercules using DLSw
  8. So, I finally sat down and beat Space Quest II
  9. Installing NetManage Chameleon on Windows 3.0!
  10. Can you run other OS/2 Presentation Managers on other versions?

February 2024

  1. An actual look at Microsoft OS/2 2.0
  2. Everyone has a theory on why OS/2 failed, and here is mine: The PS/2 Model 60
  3. Porting Sarien to OS/2 Presentation Manager
  4. Thunking for fun & a lack of profit
  5. Announcing EmuWoW Beta 1 (AXP Preview1)
  6. New version of the MS-DOS Player
  7. Getting Graylog onto the internet
  8. Targeting OS/2 with Visual Studio 2003
  9. Porting GCC to 32bit OS/2
  10. Modernising the National Geographic CD-ROM collection
  11. Totally unfair comparison of Microsoft C
  12. Apparently talking about DOS Extenders is too hot for Twitter: AKA Phar Lap 386

January 2024

  1. Phar Lap’s 286/DOS-Extender: why nobody used it for games
  2. Too many hard disks? The smiley face boot crash
  3. Check out Julio Merino’s article on real mode memory allocation:
  4. so I was excited to try this protoweb thing!
  5. Because I hate losing my mind with Apache
  6. Using an AIM-VPN EPII Plus in a Cisco 3845 or how to convert an EPII to HPII
  7. So it turns out GCC could have been available on Windows NT the entire time!
  8. The Rise of Unix. The Seeds of its Fall. / A Chronicle of the Unix Wars
  9. Win32Emu / DIY WOW
  10. In some weird twist almost all the old NetBSD source code is gone. again
  11. SINIX-Z 5.42 on 86Box

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December 2023

  1. Happy 2024
  2. 86 DOS Version 0.11 found!
  3. Merry Christmas 2023!
  4. Sun Ray adventures pt1
  5. NASA Saturn V LVDC
  6. Cross compiling to BSD on Windows (BOW) from Win32
  7. Both Johns reunite for a 30th anniversary celebration of DooM!
  8. BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
  9. Running Graylog on Windows

November 2023

  1. Zork for the PDP-11 / RT-11 recreated
  2. Don’t waste money on a math coprocessor they said;
  3. Another G5, Another SSD nightmare
  4. SoftWindows on OpenVMS

October 2023

  1. 32bits of disappointment, upgrading the IBM PS/2 model 60
  2. DVD-RAM? More like DVD-WRONG
  3. Building OS/2 apps from QuickC for Windows
  4. Since there had been some confusion on how to install MacOS 9 on OS X
  5. Knights of the Old Republic PowerPC
  6. Re-visiting Red Ribbon Linux on the PS3
  7. Inside Windows 2000
  8. Stadia controllers can be re-flashed to generic PC controllers
  9. Patching Touhou 6 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil) to run on a 3dfx Voodoo 2
  10. Windows NT 3.1 on DEC Alpha AXP

September 2023

  1. More PS/2 upgrades! More RAM, More advanced SCSI!
  2. A wild PS3 appears!
  3. Installing the IBM SCSI / A ‘tribble’ card in an IBM PS/2 model 60, using BlueSCSI, and a tale of painful lessons.
  4. Installing a Gotek floppy emulator in an IBM PS/2 model 60
  5. Today is Starfield day!

August 2023

  1. Surprise Firmware update & BitLocker
  2. Another Canadian from the great white north fights a vintage Macintosh
  3. Windows NT on IBM RS/6000 – Definitive Guide
  4. Slacktivisim + IA
  5. Peter’s Sun3 Zoo (restored)
  6. Building MS-DOS 2.11
  7. Come meet Tenox & check out the NT RISC collection over at VCF
  8. OS/2 2.0 Technical Library on archive.org

July 2023

  1. Joining NT 4 to a SAMBA Domain Controller
  2. Monitoring temperature of ancient hardware
  3. Connecting NT 4.0 clients to a SAMBA 4.17.9-Debian server
  4. Installing Windows XP on a Lenovo S20
  5. FOSBIC1 compiler
  6. Since people were asking for xMach binaries
  7. Bill Nye, the Microsoft C 6 guy
  8. 64bit computing on a budget

June 2023

  1. Bungie to make a NEW Marathon!
  2. AXP64 2210 Installation Media Reconstruction
  3. CDE on WSLv1
  4. Citrix 2 on Qemu!
  5. Windows NT demo on the DECstation 5000
  6. Re-visiting VM/386
  7. Microsoft’s Netware emulators
  8. Building a 100% virtual SNA network on your desk!
  9. 68katy-musashi
  10. SDLC attempt #1
  11. Fun with Windows ePDK NT 3.1 build 196 & Some Xenix fun!

May 2023

  1. How do I re-install all the deb’s I had from an existing Debian/Ubuntu install?
  2. Everyone seems to be losing their minds over the Windows XP Professional Key
  3. Ghosts in the mainframe!
  4. Word & Excel for MIPS
  5. Windows 2000 64-bit for Alpha AXP / AXP64 / ALPHA64 (build 2210)
  6. It’s really awkward when your mistakes are public
  7. OpenBSD 7.3 on the es40 Dec Alpha emulator!
  8. Hiding in plain sight: The 64bit Dec Alpha C compiler
  9. Adding multiple PCnet NIC’s to a Windows NT 4.0 Terminal server under Qemu
  10. Not as fun as Win64 Itanium, the earliest AMD64 Windows I can find

April 2023

  1. Fun with RF & PAL TVs
  2. Happy Friday!
  3. ERYING HM570 Motherboard with i9 11900HA
  4. When 0 is greater than 1.0
  5. OpenVMS x86 hobbyist finally here!

February 2023

  1. A wild Macintosh Plus appears!

January 2023

  1. 39 years ago, the dawn of home 32bit computing.
  2. Old Qemu builds
  3. Apple Lisa source released
  4. 86Box PS/2 model 60 emulation
  5. Looking back at MS-DOS 4.00M, or in the beginning before there was OS/2
  6. IBM OS/2 2.00 UK edition

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December 2022

  1. Happy New Years!
  2. SimCity for Unix Liberated
  3. Merry Christmas 2022!
  4. Running the SWGEMU server on WSL
  5. Unicos CD-ROM’s found!
  6. Web Rendering Proxy v4.6 released

November 2022

  1. Valve complete pack on sale!
  2. pptp always ignoring localip on Ubuntu
  3. When YYLEX shouldn’t be confused with yylex
  4. Missing Neko98
  5. Networking on AIX 4.3
  6. Revisiting AIX 4.3 on Qemu
  7. GNU Chess ’87
  8. On the trail of PCC for the 8086
  9. Project Monterey aka AIX IA64 Updates

October 2022

  1. Extracting warc files
  2. Windows scp to remote machines with spaces in the directories
  3. So there has been a problem

September 2022

  1. IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) aka Project Monterey runs again!

July 2022

  1. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol – Operational issuesÂ
  2. DooM in DooM!
  3. Happy 4th of July!
  4. VOGONS.org turns 20 years old today!

June 2022

  1. NetHack now part of the Software Collection at MOMA
  2. Launching Patreon
  3. Much regrets to all my loyal fans

May 2022

  1. Sinclair Spectrum+ Tape emulation: Métal Hurlant
  2. Lenslock: annoying DRM of the 1980s
  3. Server in a can: Unbridled rage
  4. How to fix rsync slowing down over time (SOLVED)
  5. UK is over the edge: archive.org blocked at the telecom level

April 2022

  1. Microsoft Ends the Bethesda Launcher
  2. Ready to run OpenVMS VM – Student Kit from VSI
  3. Re-visiting an install of 386BSD 0.0
  4. Bill Jolitz passed last month..
  5. Microsoft Windows 95 Launch with Bill Gates & Jay Leno (1995)

March 2022

  1. The slap heard around the world
  2. Silent Partner – Space Walk
  3. Setting the time machine for June 20th 2011
  4. Я человек, а кто ты? / I am human, who are you?
  5. 2,000 monthly downloads!

February 2022

  1. So I have a splitting headache.
  2. Manually migrating NT 4.0 on VMware ESX to Hyper-V or what is a ‘flat’ vmdk anyways?
  3. I just wanted to thank everyone for their kind words
  4. Her name was Christine

January 2022

  1. Ruffle the Flash feathers!
  2. VIDEO Capture USB 2.0 Video Adapter with Audio
  3. The arrogance of Silicon Valley is astounding: or the death of 6to4
  4. Nothing

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December 2021

  1. Closing out 2021
  2. Undocumented Madness – 2.9BSD on XHomer
  3. PETSCII Robots released for the ZX Spectrum
  4. Linus DECUS ’94 talks found!
  5. Merry Christmas
  6. Can you trust a man in a van with your virtual plan?
  7. Microsoft OneDrive & SharePoint Library dropdown menu insanity!
  8. nonsensical benchmarks

November 2021

  1. Cloud Functions Bucket File Editor
  2. Otya128’s WineVDM (Win16 on Win64)
  3. YouTube Monday video Extravaganza!
  4. Revisiting Windows NT 4.0 MIPS on QEMU

October 2021

  1. zeeDooM Xenix!
  2. Playing Mel Kaye’s LPG-30 Black Jack
  3. Chasing more 386 OMF
  4. Fun with Nano Server
  5. Compiling Mach under Windows
  6. WSLg aka the killer feature of Windows 11
  7. Good news! Windows 11 leaked a day early!
  8. Space Cadet 3D Pinball reverse engineered!
  9. 32016 stand alone planetfall!
  10. lsblk for Windows released

September 2021

  1. So I was missing Windows 10 Phone, so I fired up the emulator
  2. Aaru 5.3LTS Launch Party
  3. Happy Mid-autumn Festival
  4. So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?
  5. On trying to extract files from a Texas Instruments S1500
  6. Missing link for Basilisk I found
  7. As reported a few days ago the Windows patches for FreeDOS were committed!..
  8. AMD64 Pinball extravaganza!
  9. Re-visiting Gopher on A/UX
  10. The REAL Story on Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)
  11. Qemu’s Macintosh Quadra in alpha usability! (runs A/UX!)

August 2021

  1. The Gould SEL Concept 32/87
  2. Mass produced consumer goods are neither rare, nor valuable.
  3. Double Agent, WSLv2 and named pipes
  4. Cross compiling to AIX: or missing shr.o
  5. Installing Debian Linux 5.0 on the Qemu Dec Alpha
  6. Zir Blazer’s latest QNX update
  7. Citrix South Beach: aka the missing link from text to graphics
  8. Conventional RAM aka that old foe

July 2021

  1. FreeDOS running Windows 3.1
  2. Installing SCO Unix 4.2, part 3: LBA disks
  3. Installing SCO Unix 4.2, part 2: the devsys
  4. Installing SCO Unix, part 1
  5. EA pulls Syndicate from GOG

June 2021

  1. IBM OS/2 J2.1 Beta Release (aka 90’s CD-ROM done right)
  2. Legally Buying Duke Nukem 3D in 2021
  3. A mildly annoying 32bit adventure, also happy 30th PGP!
  4. Xmach
  5. Running VMWare ESXi on Raspberry PI
  6. Is reddit finally dying?
  7. Elijah Miller’s NEC v30 on a Pi hat

May 2021

  1. Enable Hyper-V on Windows 10 Home
  2. oneAPI Base Toolkit from Intel [free as in beer]
  3. Epyx games on Steam!
  4. Ultra rare IBM OS/2 ad featuring OS/2!
  5. irc drama v2021
  6. Pinebook Pro first impressions
  7. Presentation Manager for Windows NT
  8. A weird EBay interlude on the way to Extending DOS.
  9. All in the Family
  10. Wlink-ing for fun & … profit?
  11. GCC 2.5.8 failure on 32bit ARM
  12. Continuing with Ancient Microsoft C/Linkers
  13. Interesting? Maybe. October 1991 NT SDK uses the OS/2 toolchain
  14. New(ish) R-type shooter for the Amiga, Inviyya

April 2021

  1. GXemul 0.7.0 released!
  2. Infocom: The Documentary
  3. The Oregon Trail for FORTRAN 77
  4. Presenting MacFlim

March 2021

  1. Web Rendering Proxy (WRP) 4.5.2
  2. [TUHS] 4.4BSD sparc, pmax binary recently compiled
  3. New 65scribe video on the Power Macintosh 8100
  4. Netscape 3.02 aka hiding in plain site
  5. Windows Dev VM
  6. Yedit – The missing edit.com replacement for modern Windows

February 2021

  1. Reverse-engineering QNX 1.2 to boot from HDD

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December 2020

  1. Virtualization Challenge IV – Act II – QNX 1.2 HDD Boot ($2000 prize)
  2. It’s that time of the year again, another blog migration.
  3. UnixWare 1.0 on 86Box
  4. QNX 1.2 Virtualized
  5. Dell Unix on 86Box

November 2020

  1. Fun with VP/ix under INTERACTIVE UNIX 3.0
  2. Fun with OpenServer 6 and MergePro
  3. HFS Utillities
  4. Fun with Caldera WABI
  5. Fun with OpenServer and Merge

October 2020

  1. Cockatrice III 0.5a update
  2. Virtualization Challenge IV – QNX 1.2
  3. QNX 1.1 Demo Disk

September 2020

  1. Minecraft on the loongson-3A4000 / Lemote A1901
  2. Adding a Radeon RX 570
  3. Adding a 32bit runtime to UOS
  4. Annoyance with the MIPS linker: relocation overflows
  5. A modern RISC workstation for a modern (government) era.
  6. Microsoft to buy Bethesda
  7. Building OSKit

August 2020

  1. Thanks to shadyjesse Philpem’s FreeBee can now run the C compiler!
  2. Ну вот-Ну вот?
  3. It was 25 years ago today
  4. Couldn’t reserve space for Cygwin’s heap
  5. Re-visiting the SUN-2 emulator: Adding SLiRP!
  6. How not to write a web scraping engine
  7. Found a mirror of the old MS Ftp site
  8. Patching GCC 4.1.2 to build under GCC 8
  9. Digital.com purges DIGITAL
  10. Microsoft to delete legacy updates in the great SHA-1 purge
  11. The lost history of PReP: Windows NT 3.5x and the RS/6000 40p

July 2020

  1. Using Qemu in 2020
  2. So yes there was an outage
  3. Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 4
  4. UML Linux on WSL2

June 2020

  1. So Apple is finally moving to ARM
  2. Upgrading to WSL2
  3. Sandboxie went GPL3!

May 2020

  1. PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000
  2. Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C
  3. Discord channel added by popular request
  4. Making MacOS Mojave more like MacOS
  5. Free386 (386|DOS-Extender – RUN386 compatible)
  6. Qemu 5 was recently released
  7. Best video documentary on the G4 Cube I’ve seen so far
  8. New Amiga trojan spotted on Aminet

April 2020

  1. Yamanote Style:
  2. Stop Mojave from updating to Catalina
  3. So I was offered a MacPro 6.1 aka the trashcan.
  4. So Fallout 76 came to steam
  5. Dealing with air gapped Windows 10.
  6. Pi1541 adventure!
  7. Waiting for the deadtest

March 2020

  1. Big plans going nowhere
  2. Edilbert Kirk’s Z-Machine for CBM computers
  3. Internet archive to fully open up during “Covid19/SARS 2/武汉肺炎”
  4. Amongst all the DooM and gloom, DooM 64 was released for PC!
  5. Bare Metal Vice
  6. Anglofying & running Japanese Lemmings for Windows
  7. Philip Pemberton’s 3B1 emulator moved
  8. The price of Commodore 64’s is getting out of control.
  9. Thanks to LGR I just found out about SimCity for palm pilots was a thing!
  10. Are you Japanese?
  11. GCC moved to git!

February 2020

  1. emulator-sun-2
  2. GCC from ’87 on the 68000
  3. The Jingsha x79 redeemed itself
  4. Cross compiling SDL 1.2.15 for ARM Win32

January 2020

  1. Congruent (Toolbusters) GCC 2.4.5 for Windows NT
  2. Living with ARM for a week
  3. Random fun with video cards
  4. Happy CNY 2020!
  5. Roy was right, GTR PSU’s are terrible.
  6. Because I hate myself
  7. What is with the price of retro Japanese software?
  8. Building with the finest Chinesium
  9. Atermiter x79 Mini-ATX Xeon bundle
  10. Bill Gates on the future of Xenix
  11. Just made a drunk purchase… Not too mad
  12. Linus Tech Tips looks at the Jingsha
  13. WindEmu

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December 2019

  1. Happy 2020!
  2. Sourcetrail is now GPL!
  3. Apparently I’m notable on Gopherspace
  4. Merry Christmas
  5. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the office
  6. Curse of the Azure Bonds
  7. We Can Remember your electric sheep for you Wholesale, prices start at $8.99
  8. Christmas came early!
  9. Wasteland 2 Director’s Cut Digital Classic Edition: Now on giveaway

November 2019

  1. How much DooM is there in the Doom 3: BFG Edition version?
  2. No Final Fantasy Sale for You!
  3. Quake 2 for the RTX just got updated
  4. So Intel being Intel decided that preserving it’s past isn’t worth the few hundred GB.
  5. Web Rendering Proxy – Full Page Scrolling
  6. It’s crazy how old computer hardware holds no value
  7. Playing Blu-Ray discs with VLC
  8. The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long…

October 2019

  1. VMware 12.5.9 on Windows 10 build 1903 / version 18362
  2. On the road to the Outer Worlds, aka thanks for the ‘soft’ regions
  3. Unix50 – Unix Today and Tomorrow: Future of Compute & Platforms: The Kernel
  4. December 14th, the end of Yahoo! groups
  5. Finally got a case for my Xeon, the Cougar Gemini S
  6. Games! Games! Games!
  7. Happy Friday Gamers!
  8. What is so bad about games anyways?
  9. Apple kills 32bit software
  10. RSS update?

September 2019

  1. Mega Drive Mini
  2. Speaking of citations!
  3. Quick and dirty i8080 emulator in BASH!
  4. That feeling when you find out you’ve been cited in a PhD Thesis!
  5. Adobe FrameMaker 5 for UNIX
  6. Multia under Thermal Camera

August 2019

  1. Joe Rogan Experience #1342 – John Carmack
  2. Macintosh Application Environment (Failure pt 1)
  3. AVGN reviews Chex Quest
  4. How not to store optical media
  5. Slackware finally goes to Patreon
  6. Ion Fury released!
  7. As goes Linux, so goes Microsoft
  8. So I wanted to compare the new NCC vs the old one, and found that my CVS was broken.
  9. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
  10. GXemul for Win32
  11. Confessions of a paranoid DEC Engineer: Robert Supnik talks about the great Dungeon heist!
  12. Scored what I hope is an awesome motherboard for $30
  13. Sometimes translation software provides unique insights

July 2019

  1. Remember when the PowerPC 620 was going to rule the world?
  2. Bethesda DooM for the PC
  3. C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
  4. Reviving 20 year old web forum software
  5. 386BSD 0.0 on sourceforge
  6. Mach ’86 on the SIMH VAX
  7. Gmail on NT 3.51 with IE 1.5 via WRP
  8. WRP 4.0 Preview
  9. Mach 2.5 Independence day
  10. Mach386: MACH and BERKELEY UNIX for i386

June 2019

  1. I’m not dead
  2. Moving offices again
  3. WRP 3.0 Beta ready for testing
  4. Apple releases the Cheese grater MK II!
  5. WRP Runs on Windows

May 2019

  1. Web Rendering Proxy – Overdue Status Update
  2. WDF_VIOLATION on Apple Macintosh
  3. Using BCP to export data from SQL Server 2016 to SQL Server 4.21
  4. PCem v15 released!
  5. An un-edited view of Saturn
  6. Not having fun with Python/Debian 9.1
  7. Welcome to 2001: The year the internet was IE 6
  8. Running SWGEmu Core3
  9. OS/2 Museum back online!
  10. Running TME on Linux Subsystem for Windows (v1?)
  11. Go fly a kite!
  12. Just picked up a sealed copy of Captain Blood!
  13. I think I’m chasing a struct packing issue
  14. First steps.

April 2019

  1. Cross compiling to the Atari ST
  2. NT RISC Apps
  3. Megarace for a buck!
  4. Installing AIX on Qemu!
  5. Fun with the DooM RNG
  6. Finally got a Gotek
  7. So the Infocom source code base was just ‘released’.
  8. T’is the season for upgrades!
  9. Found more system16 source
  10. Playing old 68000 tracks via sc68
  11. French national Internet Referral Unit tries to shutdown archive.org
  12. 68000 and i386 C Compiler Version III on Windows
  13. Yori: CMD reimagined
  14. Messing with the Monitor
  15. DooM 8 second Hanger speed run (E1M1)
  16. Got some new processors!
  17. Wasting some cycles on FrontVM

March 2019

  1. ReBirth RB-338 v.2.0
  2. Early MSDN CD’s on archive.org
  3. Elder Scrolls 25th Anniversary
  4. Hypnospace Outlaw
  5. AsiaBSDCon 2019
  6. Added UDP to Qemu0.90
  7. Degrading qemu performance in DooM Part II
  8. Adding DOSBox’s MPU401 to Qemu 0.90
  9. Proot, defeating security by ignoring it in user-space
  10. End of an era, Linux to Deprecate a.out support
  11. VC6 Ultimate updates
  12. Linux hits version 5.0!
  13. Degrading qemu performance in DooM
  14. So I was building a Windows 2019 server

February 2019

  1. VC6 Ultimate
  2. Anyone with forum access to nextcomputers.org?
  3. Oldlinux.org got updated!
  4. PCem ported to FreeBASIC
  5. BUILDING A 10BASE5 “THICK ETHERNET” NETWORK
  6. SharpShooter3D
  7. Comcast / AT&T Router and SNMP
  8. Huananzhi X79
  9. New Year! New Machine!

January 2019

  1. Virtual Xenix & the internet pt 2
  2. Stanford uploads 111 lectures by Donald Knuth.
  3. Test video of Fallout 76 on a 2006 MacPro
  4. OSnews hacked.

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December 2018

  1. Quake 2 for MS-DOS full playthrough
  2. NCC / K&R C compiler for the AMD64 platform
  3. Installing Windows 10 pro onto an older Mac Pro
  4. Booting a PC over serial port via ROM Basic!
  5. Merry Christmas!
  6. Remember to upgrade your SSD firmware!
  7. Visual Studio 2003 on Windows 10 & Errors with Desktop Compositing/Themes
  8. PC/GEOS source released
  9. 8086tiny BIOS patch update
  10. QEMU Advent Calendar 2018

November 2018

  1. Why BSD/OS is the best candidate for being the only tested legally open UNIX.
  2. Fallout 76 on trajectory to be free to play by Christmas?
  3. Fallout 76
  4. Running VMware ESX Server 2.5
  5. Microsoft Bookshelf (1991)
  6. Soon 2
  7. Installing Classic (MacOS 9.2.2) from OS X 10.4

October 2018

  1. Microsoft XENIX 286 BASIC Compiler
  2. ttyplot – a real time plotting utility for the terminal
  3. Gopher kills the LC
  4. Shadow Warrior 2 for Free!
  5. Source to the Apple-II MIT Logo recovered
  6. So I picked up this Nokia 1020, and decided to downgrade it to Windows 8.0

September 2018

  1. MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 Source Code now on github
  2. the easy way bundle
  3. Wileyfox Windows phone back in production!
  4. Loading the MS SQL 6.5 drivers on Windows 10
  5. Installing .NET 1.1 on Windows 10
  6. Found this great Novell sticker
  7. OpenNT 4.5 revisited
  8. VMware Player and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible!
  9. SQL 2017 from 4.21a..
  10. win86emu: the greatest thing for Windows RT that Microsoft should have made.

August 2018

  1. Compiling Microsoft Word 1.1a for Windows
  2. So while out today I found a Windows RT Surface for $25
  3. Reading older SQL Server 6.5 books online
  4. Origin of the Windows XP ‘Bliss’ wallpaper
  5. So yeah, my crappy blog host doesn’t like Let’s Encrypt
  6. IRC turns 30!
  7. WineVDM 0.5.0 released!
  8. Go back to classic Gmail
  9. MSDN from October 1994
  10. Unloading some BSD/OS CD’s
  11. 20 years of iMacs
  12. Excel Working Model
  13. MASM386 & why you shouldn’t do this
  14. Windows/386 v2.0(3)
  15. Re-enabling WinHelp on Windows 10
  16. Microsoft Fortran PowerStation for NT 1.00
  17. I was looking for something from the old Microsoft FTP

July 2018

  1. WineVDM is improving at a dramatic rate
  2. Compiling rsync for VMWare ESXi 6.5
  3. Running CP/M on the Commodore 64!
  4. So Google is starting to ‘shame’ sites for not using HTTPS
  5. So close, and yet so far away
  6. Virtualization Challenge III – Acorn ARM Minix
  7. The power of a PC in the palm or your hand.
  8. WineVDM
  9. A week with the Microsoft Lumia 950
  10. Delivering WordPress in 7KB
  11. SimLife for Windows

June 2018

  1. BBC releases its computer history archive
  2. So I picked up a couple Super Impulse Tiny Arcade machines
  3. Program in C
  4. Open Quartz
  5. Jet Set Radio Future now at 60fps on CXBX Reloaded
  6. 2ine updated to have preliminary 16-bit .exe support!
  7. Quake 1.01 / Shareware
  8. Testing WP-Web1.0 theme
  9. So my old machine’s 16GB memory limit is becoming a problem

May 2018

  1. Using UnixWare 2 to Set Up a Web Server: A Case Study
  2. Adding an Xserve RAID
  3. Where the heck is rc.local in Debian 9?
  4. Excellent archive of Watcom C/C++ CD-ROMs on Archive.org
  5. Unsurprisingly my adventure in containers failed. again.
  6. IOCCC 2018 Best of show, aka PDP-7 emulation in under 4kb!
  7. BattleTech musings
  8. Animated GIF’s from Qemu

April 2018

  1. Qemu now supports the HPPA in softmmu mode!
  2. Booting my PowerMAC G5 from SSD
  3. My crappy CVS archive of old crap is now online via pserver!
  4. Darwin 0.3 & 1.0 on Qemu
  5. Mac OS X Server 1.0 installs on Qemu
  6. Japan get’s all the neat looking SONY PC’s AKA the trouble with early SSDs
  7. so here we go again.
  8. Previous 2.0 release!
  9. WinFile comes back from the dead.
  10. So the source code to the Macintosh port of System Shock was just released
  11. Anyone in need of bash?
  12. 1.1.1.1

March 2018

  1. Re-building old GCC distribution tars AKA patching backwards
  2. Fun with Empire EFI & OS X 10.6 on Intel
  3. Computer Show – Printers
  4. Fun with Docker
  5. Windows 10 ARM64 on QEMU
  6. Microsoft Editor
  7. Building MAME 0.1 for MS-DOS / DJGPP
  8. fread and fwrite demystified: stdio on UNIX V7

February 2018

  1. 2ine the OS/2 emulator
  2. And we’re back
  3. Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows
  4. Crimson Editor and Metapad for Alpha AXP NT
  5. More cross compiler assertion fun
  6. BBSs and early Internet access in the 1990ies
  7. Cross Compiling 386BSD 0.1pl23 from Windows 10

January 2018

  1. Revisiting a UnixWare 7.1.1 install on Qemu/KVM
  2. Date and Time on UNIX V7
  3. Updated my DooM port
  4. MinGW and missing DLL’s
  5. Teaching an old IRC dog some new tricks
  6. Teaching an Almost 40-year Old UNIX about Backspace
  7. Converting a Physical disk to a Virtual disk with Qemu’s qemu-img on Windows
  8. Life in UNIX® V7: an attempt at a simple task
  9. dosdoom 0.2 recovered
  10. Imagemagick really is.. Magic!
  11. zeeDoom updated to use latest Freedoom assets

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December 2017

  1. Putting the 2015 Romero DooM level release to use
  2. Links 386 Pro
  3. Source code to EXXOS / ERE Informatique Captain Blood not exactly released
  4. DOSBox 0.74 can run Windows 3.0/3.1 in 386 Enhanced mode!
  5. Welcome to the uncanny valley
  6. Happy Life day
  7. Calamus for Windows NT RISC
  8. Commodore Programming Languages
  9. OS/2 2.00 CGA on PCem v13
  10. learn: Ancient troff sources vs. modern-day groff
  11. OS X Server 1.0 on Qemu (almost)
  12. Ultimate Christmas! Ultimate DooM! giveaway!
  13. Coherent 3.0
  14. Thinking about doing something different about monitization
  15. OPL2LPT
  16. 100% pointless stream!
  17. PCem v13 released
  18. Messing with the Microsoft JDBC Driver
  19. Revisiting a Solaris on Qemu install
  20. And we’re back.
  21. Run Windows 2000 in your browser!
  22. Building the Original Commodore 64 KERNAL Source
  23. SimCity under Windows 3.0

November 2017

  1. Microsoft Game Shop
  2. Citrix Multiuser 2.0
  3. Soon
  4. AT&T 3B2 400 emulated
  5. For all my American viewers
  6. IRC necromancy
  7. Installing and using Citrix Multiuser v1.0 on BOCHS
  8. Everyone is going nuts over the CompuServe forum shutdown.
  9. VMWare Player is too small on Windows 10! Also what is 1036521??
  10. Unboxing Citrix Multiuser 2.0
  11. 8-Bit guy vs PE6502 Hobby Computer
  12. Another free trip around the sun
  13. 4.2BSD TCP/IP networking

October 2017

  1. EtherDFS
  2. How do you know someone is in MENSA?
  3. Boeing 777-300 vs Apple charger
  4. BoxedWine
  5. Microsoft C KnowledgeBase articles online
  6. 8 bit boy & JS-DOS
  7. What is a VLAN (part 6)
  8. What is a VLAN (part 5)
  9. What is a VLAN (part 4)
  10. What is a VLAN (part 3)
  11. What is a VLAN (part 2)
  12. What is a VLAN (part 1)
  13. OpenBSD 6.2 shipping
  14. GCC 1.27 & MS-DOS
  15. DooM for the VIC 20
  16. AOL Instant messaging to end service.
  17. Messing around with Vistapro 4.0
  18. Building Synchronet on Debian Stretch
  19. Great rename in progress
  20. UX lessons from the Magic Screensaver aka After Dark
  21. When you think your job sucks, there is retail
  22. So to celebrate 20 years of Fallout, Fallout 1 is free

September 2017

  1. I built an AROS machine out of scrap!
  2. Trying to debug an ancient Linux 0.11 kernel with GDB
  3. Escargo the replacement MSN messenger network
  4. Commodore Lemonade
  5. BASIC language subset/dialect in C++
  6. SQL Server 2000 on Windows 10
  7. Upgrading Debian 8 to version 9
  8. Platform SDK & DirectX for Visual C++ Express Edition 2005
  9. Early Direct X SDK’s
  10. NetHack in your browser via Moxie CPU
  11. More pointless site updates…
  12. Finished rebuilding my MS-DOS machine
  13. Quad core by Singular Crew / C64 demo
  14. Fashion over form aka the lofree keyboard
  15. Jerry Pournelle RIP (1933-2017)
  16. Definicon DSI-32 co-processor emulation
  17. Tyne RISC PC Deskstation
  18. Warpstock 2017 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  19. Quasijarus integrated source available on github!
  20. SUN Solaris is effectively dead.
  21. PC-MOS/386 v5.01 released under GPL v3.0!
  22. Started to re-build my MS-DOS machine

August 2017

  1. Porting Catacomb3D to MS-DOS (DJGPP v1/GO32).
  2. unresolved symbol __imp____iob_func aka SDL 1.25 & Visual Studio 2015
  3. Installing Borland C++ 3.1 in DOSBox: Too many subdirectories!
  4. Quakecon 2017
  5. 26th anniversary of Linux!
  6. Spending 10k a month for Quake I
  7. Setting up Windows environment variables for DJGPP (& other GCC based compilers)
  8. Uploaded my cross DJGPP v1 environment to sourceforge

July 2017

  1. RETROTECHTACULAR: ASCII ART IN THE 19TH CENTURY
  2. Null DooM, GCC 1.39, GO32 and DPMI
  3. DECUS links to ancient GNU software
  4. Sometimes the 80’s never end.
  5. Hsiao & Hunter, Inc.’s GIF News
  6. Cray J90 emulation online!
  7. Setting up an SRX branch office
  8. Various Zork design documents, and fun stuff
  9. Calling MSSQL library from protected mode
  10. Summer Steam Sales…..

June 2017

  1. Using Voodoo 2 emulation with PCem / 86Box
  2. SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics Summer STEAM sale
  3. SEGA to lauch SEGA Forever tomorrow!
  4. New ‘redir’ / ‘hostfwd’ syntax for Qemu
  5. Hacking Flight Simulator 4 for multiple monitors
  6. Galaxy Patrol Cosmofighter

May 2017

  1. One of those days.
  2. GopherVista
  3. Peter Godiwn’s Gopher Server
  4. Multiplayer Macintosh Plus via Javascript/
  5. 10 years later…
  6. MachTen 2.2
  7. Previous 1.6
  8. Darwin 0.3 booted multiuser!

April 2017

  1. Updated Darwin 0.3
  2. Darwin 0.3 single user mode test drive
  3. Reading .toast image files
  4. Darwin 0.1 + Rhapsody DR 2 booted!
  5. Building the Darwin 0.1 kernel
  6. Getting the first side of Dark Side of the Moon onto a floppy diskette
  7. Running Netware 3.12 on Qemu / KVM 2.8.0
  8. 4.3BSD syslogd for Windows
  9. TACACS for Windows
  10. Cflow
  11. CTI Keynote, Cliff Stoll – (Still) Stalking the Wily Hacker
  12. Research UNIX v9

March 2017

  1. Research UNIX v8
  2. Manually adding ncurses & VDE support to the Linux Qemu build
  3. 2013-2017 Aclock Binary Contributions
  4. Python command line network speed test
  5. BackOffice Server 4.5 aka how to get the best of 1990’s Microsoft Server Tech!
  6. Sourcecode to Darwin 0.1 located!
  7. Installing VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 3 on KVM
  8. Running VMWare ESXi 6.5 under Linux/KVM!
  9. Getting started with cisco VIRL L2 virtual Ethernet switches
  10. FreeBSD 12 to cut support for iBCS / SYSV binaries

February 2017

  1. Just upgraded some RAM
  2. Personal AltaVista + UTZOO reloaded
  3. The Harris HCX-9 aka TAHOE platform
  4. Moving to Debian 8
  5. PCem v12 released
  6. Meet the superfans who spent a decade bringing Daikatana back to life
  7. WSAPoll & MinGW
  8. COMDEX/Fall’93 program & exhibits guide-on-disk
  9. OS X 10.12 to Win32 MinGW cross compiler

January 2017

  1. cisco router spotted in the wild with over 20 years uptime
  2. Happy CNY
  3. The old school analog TV pack
  4. Gravity Rush 2 promo video for Hong Kong/Japan
  5. Firefly-Host-6.0-CloudSDK fun in “modern” times
  6. Need Windows XP with IE 6?
  7. Nested VMWare ESXi
  8. Shout out to Json.NET

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December 2016

  1. Merry Christmas from China!
  2. I just connected to a terminalmserver
  3. GCC for Windows NT / Dec Alpha?
  4. Just for you, lucky Spanish user, GCC 3.0.4 for Windows NT (MinGW)
  5. IPIP tunnel to SLiRP
  6. Adding some of the GNU 1989 source ‘tapes’ into sourceforge
  7. Holy crap did I get the most annoying trojan attempt ever!
  8. Found some more ancient GNU software
  9. SQL 4.21a on Windows Server 2012

November 2016

  1. Building and using GCC 0.9 aka the first public version
  2. More idiots stealing my posts
  3. Adding virtual disks to User Mode Linux
  4. LibVNCServer + UAE
  5. Found EMX 0.8b
  6. Vampire 500 v2 demo & talk
  7. Digital teamlinks demo diskette
  8. Cross GCC from Windows to AmigaDOS
  9. building binutils-2.8.1 on ‘Modern’ systems
  10. On the talk of Europe & Tapes…
  11. NOS clone datassettes!
  12. Cross compiling to the Amiga with Sozobon
  13. Cool PDP-1 emulator: Ironic Computer Space Simulator

October 2016

  1. Back onto HECnet
  2. Installing Windows NT 3.1 on a physical computer
  3. EMX 0.9d rehosted on Win32
  4. SQL Server 6.5 on Windows 10 x64
  5. Hitting it big time: aka content scrapers
  6. N64 cross GCC / Binutils for Win32
  7. Save 60% on Super 3-D Noah’s Ark
  8. x68000 DooM confirmed to work on real hardware!
  9. SQL Server 4.21a on Windows 10 x64
  10. Apache 1.3.4 on Windows NT 3.1
  11. Just got a Roland Soundcanvas SC-88!
  12. Starting on an ELF cross compiler for Windows
  13. Windows NT 3.1 & KVM
  14. Cross compiled Linux 1.0.9!
  15. User Mode Linux revisited (UML) aka SLiRP networking
  16. Torbjörn Granlund’s Excellent resource on running free OS’s on Qemu

September 2016

  1. MIDI Mayhem on Windows 10
  2. Cross compiling Linux 0.95c+ & 0.96c from Windows
  3. NetBSD 1.0 i386
  4. Almost transplanted NeXTSTEP
  5. Darwin 1.4.1 installs on Qemu 2.7!
  6. Main Quasijarus site is down.
  7. Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
  8. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
  9. Adding some SSL via Let’s Encrypt
  10. CP/M Exchange and the CP/M Player
  11. Porting DooM to the x68000
  12. Humble Bundle has Game Maker on sale for $15 (or higher)
  13. Retro computing for $99
  14. Opus No. 1 Single for sale on iTunes!

August 2016

  1. x68000 sharp C compiler & floating point
  2. Mariko’s x68000 GCC 1.42 on Windows
  3. Linux 0.01 remake
  4. Linux 0.01 on Qemu!
  5. Ssystem 1.6
  6. Linux at 25 years!
  7. Interesting video on framemeister alternatives and video scalers
  8. The rise and fall of Gopher
  9. iomega clik! 40MB removable drive!
  10. Motorola 68000 Oral History Panel
  11. Tahoe
  12. I found the source to Mach 2.5
  13. Scripted Amiga Update & hosting at archive.org
  14. Epyx Rogue 1.48
  15. Dunc’s Algomusic MkIIIb

July 2016

  1. EMX GCC 2.5.8 for Windows
  2. MS-DOS player can now embed executables
  3. URL shortners & short domains
  4. Moving hosts again!
  5. CDC 1700 emulator added to SIMH
  6. Latest Qemu 2.7 snapshots can boot MacOS 9.1/9.2
  7. Spent some more time messing with NetHack 1.3d revived
  8. Nintendo Classic Mini
  9. Microsoft starting to reduce One Drive storage

June 2016

  1. MS-DOS 5.0 DPMI
  2. So this could have gone better
  3. DooM 1.2j1.0 on NekoProject II
  4. As requested, PCem v11 with networking
  5. DAEMON Tools Lite is on sale…
  6. WinUAE 3.3.0 released
  7. Xkeropi v0.65
  8. PCem v11 released
  9. KSP For the Apple II

May 2016

  1. Style & Diction
  2. Dungeon 2.5.6 on MacOS
  3. Captain Blood reverse engineering project
  4. Giving up on the MT-32
  5. GCC 1.37 on MacOS
  6. Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulation got a massive overhaul on steam
  7. Ported System16 0.53 to Windows
  8. Burgertime 7/12/2015 aka DooM 3DO port
  9. Building a private mesh network
  10. More fun with GCC 6.1
  11. Stupid GCC error
  12. MS-DOS emulator can now run DJGPP binaries
  13. DJGPP memory fouled
  14. GCC 6.1.0 for MinGW
  15. UAE 0.8.29 on Windows
  16. Ported UAE 0.7.6 to MinGW!
  17. GCC 1.40 on Windows
  18. [ANNOUNCE] DJGPP port of gcc-6.1.0
  19. Slackware 14.2 is in RC phase

April 2016

  1. More fun with the System16, kinda, sorta?
  2. GCC 6.1 released
  3. UAE’s 68000 core actually was once in MAME
  4. I found the source code to UAE 0.4
  5. Fun with regex substitutions in Apache
  6. Fun with Apache, (mod_proxy, mod_rewrite), stunnel, And AltaVista Personal search
  7. Old man yells at cloud
  8. Stack corruption in MSYS with Windows 10
  9. UAE 0.1, the unusable Amiga emulator
  10. Get tomorrows date:
  11. System 16
  12. 10 years of AVGN
  13. Dynamips 0.2.16 was released over on github
  14. OpenBSD 5.9 released!
  15. User Mode Linux

March 2016

  1. What’s your bother?
  2. POSIX (Linux?) returns to Windows 10 (NT!)
  3. Interesting video on CGA graphics capabilities
  4. Found an interesting blog about m68k & CP/M
  5. Ready for the movie mania?
  6. BSDI BSD/386 1.1
  7. NeoGeo dev update with Neo Thunder
  8. Lock the Taskbar
  9. OpenBSD on the VAX is no more
  10. MSSQL on Linux?
  11. Dr mingw is awesome
  12. For those of you in the London Area: Guardian Live | the Amiga Power reunion

February 2016

  1. Previous 1.4 features NeXTdimension emulation!
  2. ReactOS hits 0.4!
  3. Happy Birthday, Pris!
  4. DR-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0
  5. Build an AT for $1000!
  6. Nethack team to open up on sourceforge
  7. New Sourceforge owners end controversial DevShare programme
  8. FOOTBALL Design Document
  9. NeXTSTEP in your browser!
  10. Usborne collection of 1980’s computer books!
  11. Just saw this gallery of old MS-DOS viruses on archive.org
  12. So today I came across a ‘new’ 4.1 BSD tape on bitsavers: 4.1_BSD_19810710.zip

January 2016

  1. Updated build of Linux 0.11 on Windows 10
  2. End of the line for VMware Player, Workstation and Fusion?
  3. Quarter Century of UNIX PDF available on TUHS
  4. Getting dot1q to work between VMware and GNS3
  5. Installing Microsoft Java on Windows 2000 SP4
  6. John Romero releases new DooM level
  7. OpenSSH: client bugs CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778
  8. Thanks Apple!
  9. Capstone source archive

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December 2015

  1. Happy 2016!
  2. The Ultimate Amiga 500 Talk
  3. Retro Freak, first thoughts
  4. Merry Christmas from Japan!
  5. Mainframe (s390 Linux) Moon Buggy
  6. Confusion & MDL Zork

November 2015

  1. Quake on HPPA (Gecko) NeXTSTEP
  2. The Infocom Cabinet
  3. Snoopy – a basic packet sniffer for Windows
  4. OpenNT – Windows NT 4.5
  5. NVIDIA GRID – GPU Virtualization under Windows
  6. QNX Updates
  7. Blue Lion

October 2015

  1. PHP 5.4 is now obsolete on Debian
  2. DooM shovelware CD archive!
  3. THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHER’S FORTRAN
  4. PCem version 10 is officially released!
  5. The client needs to access the internet!
  6. You can run VxWorks too!
  7. Happy Back to the Future day!
  8. 20 years of OpenBSD
  9. A/UX Documentation Update
  10. Adding ncurses into Qemu!
  11. LiteBSD
  12. For my dear friend snejannatr
  13. WYSE Unix Virtualized
  14. Diamond in a pile of shit
  15. More on adding disks to Solaris
  16. Building Linux 0.11 on Windows 10
  17. Craziest cross compile yet!
  18. Qemu 2.4.0.1 binaries for Windows
  19. Building MinGW32 Qemu on Linux (or anything else I guess)
  20. VAX Snoopy!
  21. 32bit / 64bit GDB collision
  22. My 80’s TV!

September 2015

  1. Anyone using truecrypt or any derivative work
  2. InfoTaskForce running on PowerPC (Dynamips)
  3. Continuing with a PowerPC ELF compiler for Windows
  4. Building a MIPS Compiler for Windows on a Linux VM!
  5. Virtualization Challenge Part II – WYSE Unix
  6. One million packets served!
  7. Porting Quake II to MS-DOS pt5 – 3DFX, GameSpy, Quake 2, and The Universe
  8. Updated PCem networking build
  9. Adventures with Snoopy
  10. VenturComm Venix/86 on PCem
  11. “warning: Invalid parameter passed to C runtime function.”
  12. Dynamips on MinGW
  13. Dealing with Gmail’s attachment ‘security’
  14. DOSDoom on Watcom
  15. Failure to upgrade to Windows 10
  16. PCem networking update to build 335
  17. PCem networking update to build 334
  18. Veritas in a Modern World

August 2015

  1. More progress on PCem and networking
  2. One of those days..
  3. VMWare Player version 12 is released!
  4. 20 years of Windows 95
  5. Adding SLiRP to PCem
  6. New ‘old’ DooM beta found
  7. modern.ie Virtual Machines
  8. VenturComm Venix/86 on MESS/MAME
  9. Venix/86 Challenge
  10. Darkmatter
  11. Mapping into onedrive
  12. WinDooM on SoftPC, on SheepShaver

July 2015

  1. Update to Windows 10
  2. So apparently in OS X packages actually expire
  3. I accidentally upgraded vpsland to Debian 8
  4. Making MacMiNT self hosting
  5. GSOC bringing MacOS 9 to Qemu
  6. So yeah, sourceforge is still down
  7. Wolfenstein 3D for DOS/4GW update

June 2015

  1. re-vamping source code cvs depot
  2. Porting Quake II to MS-DOS pt4
  3. PCem does the IBM PS/1 2011!
  4. Random links
  5. Porting Quake II to MS-DOS pt3
  6. Porting Quake II to MS-DOS pt2
  7. Porting Quake II to MS-DOS pt1

May 2015

  1. Announcing DJGPP 2.05 Beta 1
  2. Shadowrun Hong Kong!
  3. MAME to go open source!
  4. Building SDL2 for Android
  5. All aboard the VENOM hype train!
  6. Overheating boxes…
  7. Going away for a bit
  8. Scripted Amiga updated to version 0.82
  9. Star Wars Day
  10. Quake One blocked
  11. Qemu 2.3.0 released!
  12. In other news, Debian Hurd just shipped.
  13. Powered by OS/2
  14. So archive.org setup their virtual PC library to run from twitter!

April 2015

  1. More thoughts on Minecraft, compression and encryption
  2. DoomED source released for NeXTSTEP
  3. Installing Debian 7 in KVM via the CLI (text mode)
  4. Hosting Minecraft as an experiment
  5. It’s late but I think I’m back up
  6. Previous 0.52 (trunk 391) + slirp
  7. Windows 3.0 Debug Release 1.14
  8. Activate 4 extra fault tolerant cores in XEON 54xx series!

March 2015

  1. PCem current now includes voodoo support!
  2. William Gibson, turns 66 today
  3. VMware releases version 6 of ESX

February 2015

  1. SEGA exits the console market
  2. Leonard Nimoy passed away.
  3. MPW for OSX
  4. Maybe in time for the Chinese New Year?

January 2015

  1. New and exciting browser, Vivaldi
  2. Bringing back the WinZork demo via jsDOSBox
  3. Getting Qemu’s NetWare 3.12 onto the LAN with Tun/Tap
  4. Old phones on the internet..
  5. Novell Netware 3.12 once more runs on Qemu!
  6. I saw this git/Unix archive mentioned on TUHS
  7. CBM Basic
  8. OpenBSD 5.6 Sparc64 on Qemu
  9. NetBSD 6.1.5 Sparc64 on Qemu
  10. Qemu 2.2.0 for OS X 10.10
  11. Coherent vs IDE controllers…
  12. Fun with Kerbal Space Program
  13. CS1685:
  14. Coherent sources released under a 3-clause BSD license
  15. Stupid error building binutils
  16. Js dos

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December 2014

  1. Belated Merry Christmas!
  2. NetHack 1.3d on the x68000
  3. Toccata and Fugue in DOT minor – Bach on a DOT MATRIX PRINTER
  4. WinUAE 3.0.0 released!
  5. Nothing worse than a firewall crash
  6. Tracking down the InfoTaskForce from 1987.
  7. Cross compiling to i386 Linux ELF from OS X
  8. As part of DOOM’s 21st birthday, John Romero releases some unused ART
  9. Great write up on Nethack at Linux Voice
  10. Virtual Printers
  11. Loading NT 4.0 & Windows 2000 on Hyper-V
  12. So I must be crazy, I just tried Virtual PC 2007 SP1 on Windows 10
  13. Critical flaw with VMware & Windows 10 preview 9879
  14. Xlive.dll missing ordinal 42
  15. SIMH on demand!
  16. shellinabox
  17. So I was crazy, and updated from Windows 7 to 10
  18. VMWare Player 7 is out!
  19. Windows 10 technical preview
  20. Zork CPU implemented in FPGA
  21. The complete archive for DOOM for the 3DO is on GitHub!

November 2014

  1. Run68 Human-68k emulator
  2. PCem is getting a dynamic recompiler!
  3. New build of Shoebill available.
  4. Cross compiling to the Sharp x68000
  5. Today’s Catch
  6. Visual Studio Community 2013 with Update 4
  7. So Apparently Microsoft has a giant OLE vulnerability
  8. My experience with the Gravis UltraSound Part 2: Synergy ViperMax / Gravis UltraSound Extreme
  9. SheepShaver with pcap support
  10. Archive org + JSMESS
  11. CrossOver 14 can run PowerStation Fortran 4.0!

October 2014

  1. Phase one on a SheepShaver rebuild complete
  2. AltaVista Personal Indexer
  3. Dectalk Express & Intex Talker have an argument.
  4. While hunting for Hack 1.0 in usenet
  5. Hack 1.0 preliminary version
  6. Impuse Tracker open sourced
  7. Apout on Windows
  8. Adding Solaris packages, under Qemu
  9. OS/2 and KVM don’t mix.
  10. vaxhaven.com
  11. Time to take the plunge?
  12. Time for another Cockatrice release
  13. I have no idea why the networking in Basilisk II keeps stalling
  14. Zork Project
  15. So I started to look at the SCSI passthru on Basilisk
  16. Pcem 2
  17. Announcing Cockatrice III
  18. So Microsoft still has the MacOS Outlook for download
  19. You ever get that feeling you’re going nowhere

September 2014

  1. Did you know that GCC used to support Windows NT ?
  2. Saving RISC GCC from the dumpster
  3. Its that time of the year again
  4. Dungeon on A/UX
  5. Commander Keen has been opensourced!
  6. Shoebill now has working Ethernet support!
  7. Exchange 5.5 OWA vs Outlook 2003
  8. Playing around with Gopher
  9. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
  10. Running MS SQL Server 4.21 on OS X.
  11. From the latest changelog, PCem coming to Linux!

August 2014

  1. GOG does movies!
  2. I don’t use Windows XP very often, but when I do…
  3. Netkeen
  4. Fun with PGP 1.0
  5. I guess you’ve all heard by now

July 2014

  1. Atari System V UNIX Saga – Part III – SCSI Disk Replacement
  2. Advanced Gravis
  3. DOOM over TCP/IP
  4. Slackware 14.1 is released!
  5. Using IDE hard disks on VMWare ESXi 5.5
  6. PCE.js Mac OS 6/7 and DOS / Win3.1 Emulator in JavaScript
  7. OpenWatcom v2
  8. Setting up a Co-op QuakeWorld Server
  9. Today marks 20 years of FreeDOS!

June 2014

  1. Just how ‘original’ is the Ultimate Doom on steam?
  2. Dealing with CopyQM file format
  3. SCSI CD-ROM support for OS/2 1.3
  4. MS-DOS Player updates
  5. 8086tiny 1.25 has been out for a while
  6. SDL 1.2.15 not working with Visual Studio 2003 (2002, 6, 97..)
  7. MSMQ 1.0
  8. In the ‘why do I even bother’ department, I just got placed on a RBL
  9. what is more fringe than a telnet bbs?
  10. I just played with NeXTSTEP 0.8
  11. Have you ever used the NNTP service that comes with NT 4.0?
  12. Fun with Windows Timeout command…
  13. EtsyJs – Atari ST Emulator in JavaScript
  14. IDLEHLT16 for OS/2 1.x
  15. Awsome cache of ancient PC related manuals!
  16. Dmsdos
  17. Shoebill ported to Windows!
  18. Announcing HECnetNT!
  19. Setting up DECNet on VMS 4.7
  20. Flat Rock Software has open sourced a bunch of early iD stuff
  21. I forget what I was looking for
  22. SoundBlaster support on VMWare Player
  23. Preview….
  24. Stacker compression for Cisco routers
  25. GNS3 + VMWare +Netware 3.12
  26. With all the truecrypt hysteria running around

May 2014

  1. BBS down. again.
  2. Not that I hang out on IRC anymore
  3. OS/2 2.0 on VMware Player
  4. GNS3 & VMware
  5. Philip Pemberton’s 3B1 emulator now Boots AT&T Unix!
  6. My ‘vpsland’ thing is back online
  7. CP/M-68K Simulator
  8. Now this reminds me of “turning the engine off and then back on again at 55 mph.”
  9. George R R Martin Writes with WordStar 4!
  10. Wyse Telnet & Serial emulator
  11. Updating a Toshiba T-01D Android phone to
  12. PCem now adds Innovation SSI-2001 emulation
  13. Using expect with the F5
  14. Using expect with Cisco IOS
  15. Using expect with a JunOS device.
  16. A sneak peak at Microsoft OS/2 2.0
  17. Freebie VMWare ESXi 5.5
  18. Running Microsoft Exchange from home.
  19. Winamp is back!
  20. CannonBall!
  21. OpenBSD 5.5 released!
  22. Shoebill 0.0.2 official!
  23. PCem 8.1

April 2014

  1. Running Virtual PC 2007 on VMWare Player
  2. 50 years of BASIC!
  3. OS/2 2.0 in Office Space
  4. Chex Quest
  5. Terminator Rampage.
  6. Qemu 2.0 officially released!
  7. It never rains, but it pours.
  8. Byte magazine now on archive.org!
  9. Virtual Machines for Internet Explorer
  10. My fragready server has been taken offline because of a ‘virus’.
  11. Qemu enters the 2.0 release candidate phase!
  12. Virtual IIGS for Chrome, Active GS!
  13. WRP for QT-Webkit
  14. Previous boots NeXTSTEP!
  15. Virtual A/UX
  16. Mirroring Wikipedia
  17. Atari System V UNIX Saga “Part II“ TenoxVGA

March 2014

  1. I don’t know how I missed this, but a java x68000!
  2. QEMU 1.7.1 Stable released
  3. In a surprise move, Microsoft opens up the source to MS-DOS & Word for Windows.
  4. 8086tiny de-obfuscated!
  5. Visual Studio 2005 Express editions
  6. Blinking lights…
  7. Web Rendering Proxy
  8. I know it’s early but it’s coming up on the 30th Anniversary of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
  9. Amiga Action
  10. Surfing Modern Web With Ancient Browsers

February 2014

  1. telnettable Altair 8080 clone!
  2. Virtual Hands on Labs
  3. VMWare Vcenter/ESX 5.5
  4. Alpha Linux on Qemu
  5. AQUARIUS from the YMF262 EP by Diode Milliampere, Live in Adlib Tracker II
  6. If you ever install AmiTCP 3.0b2 you’ll
  7. Blackthorne is now freeware!

January 2014

  1. 16 and a half years of uptime
  2. Modems, wArEz, and ANSI art: Remembering BBS life at 2400bps
  3. Atari System V UNIX Saga – Part I – Intro
  4. Installing Visual Studio 2003 on CrossOver (OS X)
  5. Opus number 1 in stereo!
  6. So I just made a major goof
  7. Rsync 3.1.0 on Interix (SUA for Windows)
  8. Probably figured out why Net/2 doesn’t work.
  9. More NET/2 to 386BSD 0.0 fun
  10. ioccc pc emulator
  11. Happy new year!

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December 2013

  1. Virtual x86
  2. Want to be scared?
  3. Old BSD musings
  4. I was looking back at old posts
  5. Merry Christmas!
  6. 64bit Windows QEMU builds
  7. PCem v8 released!
  8. AROS booting on x86_64
  9. Ever have issues with Qemu reading low density disk images?
  10. Qemu 1.7.0 released!
  11. building NACL stuff on OS X
  12. Virtual Xenix & the internet
  13. Iris & Rogue
  14. SAGE CP/M disk fun
  15. SAGE CP/M 68k on SIMH
  16. Qemu & SunOS 4.1.4
  17. Qemu vs KVM with Novell Netware 3.12

November 2013

  1. ReactOS build 61112
  2. Qemu enters the 1.7 testing phase
  3. ReactOS gets a NTVDM
  4. Raspberry Pi Floppy emulator
  5. VIM the Virtual Machine debugger
  6. Linux on the VAX
  7. QuakeWorld Clients
  8. Netcraft confirms it, I’m alive.
  9. Emulating a Cray X-MP Supercomputer
  10. Building a super stock QuakeWorld server for Linux
  11. Moving servers again..
  12. Crossover version 13 released today!
  13. PCem 0.7 and beyond
  14. Pce js
  15. So I was playing with Watcom C/386 8.5 today
  16. Microsoft OS/2 2.0 SDK Beta
  17. Building Descent 1 from source

October 2013

  1. Gravis UltraSound under Qemu
  2. Doom IPX revisited
  3. Some random updates
  4. Configuring IPX/SPX
  5. Qemu 1.6.1 released!

September 2013

  1. Aclock Reaches #200 Ports!
  2. Adding some substance to my example network
  3. Configuring TCP/IP
  4. Physical network topologies
  5. ThinkPad 860 Saga – Part 1
  6. Getting started with a cisco router
  7. cisco router guide
  8. So I thought I’d go through something incredibly elaborate
  9. Public Domain Operating System
  10. Microsoft Archives
  11. Upgrading Debian Squeeze to Wheezy
  12. TTPod restricted ip address…

August 2013

  1. Kali
  2. For anyone in or near Cologne..
  3. Restoring the MIPS Magnum in Qemu 1.6.0
  4. Qemu 1.6.0 for Win32
  5. Qemu 1.6.0 binaries for OS X
  6. Running Synchronet on an Amazon EC2 instnace
  7. OS/2 1.21 under Qemu 1.6.0
  8. Qemu 1.6.0 pre-3 OS X binaries
  9. QNX 2.21 Arrived Today
  10. Nano X for MS-DOS
  11. QNX 2.21 Purchase Fund
  12. Qemu 1.6 officially released!
  13. OS X 10.2 on Qemu PowerPC
  14. OS X PowerPC on Qemu
  15. QEMU version 1.6.0-rc3 is out!
  16. So yeah, welcome to Germany
  17. Play Sega Genesis games via FLASH!
  18. More Snowden fallout

July 2013

  1. Recent Aclock Ports…
  2. ThinkPad 850…
  3. Sad day for people who signed onto SUN’s virtualization strategies.
  4. So I got mentioned on tumblr
  5. Wolfenstein 3D for DOS/4GW!
  6. Driving an AdLib card from a parallel port
  7. Blake Stone source code released!
  8. VMware PVSCSI under WinPE
  9. Qemu 1.5.1 released
  10. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has been overthrown!
  11. Impossible Mission in javascript!
  12. Aclock needs your help
  13. Do you like old Commodore material?

June 2013

  1. Ed Iacobucci, IBM visionary of OS/2, and later Citrix dead.
  2. Qemu 1.5.0 on OS X
  3. NetBSD 0.8 archive found!

May 2013

  1. In a round about way I got access to my old build machine
  2. QEMU version 1.5.0-rc2 is out!
  3. Sysadmin Key Ring

April 2013

  1. Somewhere over China while I was ignoring the world
  2. Qemu 1.4.1 released
  3. Not Quite Working Yet

March 2013

  1. Caldera Open Linux
  2. QNX Windows – First Look
  3. Virtualizing QNX 2.15
  4. European MS-DOS 4.00 aka multitasking DOS
  5. EEVblog Vintage Teardown Tuesday, the Commodore Amiga 500!
  6. Ashens review of the Neo Geo X
  7. Mess has greatly improved 486 support
  8. GoldenEye’s hidden ZX Spectrum 48x emulator
  9. Doh
  10. So what the heck, I’m taking on a sponsor!
  11. NetBSD/Sparc conference in Japan 3/20
  12. Stuck on boot, but it’s progress…
  13. Solaris 9 x86 on VMware

February 2013

  1. Tcpser
  2. As much as I appor censorship
  3. So yeah, Qemu 1.4.0 was released!
  4. Minix 3.2.1 released!
  5. Gamespy shuts down…
  6. Virtual Acorn – Fun with Virtualized RISC OS
  7. Zork map in duplicity TV show
  8. Latest wordpress update broke my theme..
  9. WP-Optimize
  10. StarWars in traceroute…
  11. Qemu entering the 1.4.0 public beta phase
  12. Found another BBS list..
  13. For those of you who enjoy running Solaris

January 2013

  1. Lotus 1-2-3 Musical!
  2. So I just noticed that MIDI is 30 years old!
  3. So I thought I’d have some fun with jsmips
  4. Can any Chrome users test this link?
  5. NetBSD 1.0 on the Amiga
  6. le Retour des AMIX de l’impact Amiga..
  7. Sad day for Atari fans
  8. Fun with QNX 4 Networking under VMware
  9. Ancient Amiga Linux
  10. Sourceforge’s project of the month: DOSBox!
  11. Amix
  12. Floppy emulation on the Commodore Amiga
  13. DICE C Compiler for the Amiga
  14. Some fun with my “new” Amiga 600
  15. win 1.375000 dollars it that possible ?
  16. So while I’m on this Amiga kick
  17. Something interesting happened on the way to Verona
  18. Elite: Dangerous is going to get made!
  19. More improvements to the Commodore Amiga emulator, Janus
  20. Yuhong Bao’s post on the OS/2 2.0 fiasco
  21. A Commodore 64 vs the exciting world of tapes…
  22. Happy New Years!!!

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