Bringing this weird project back to life so I can release it and call it done.

every time I thought I was smooth when she just really liked me

I'm watching codex speedrun through figuring out all of the service dependencies necessary to add CSM to the Intel Galileo firmware. This took me a few weekends when I did it by hand.

yeah I had the politics muted but I think the platform is impacting the way the user base interacts

this morning, after ~18 years, I deactivated my twitter/x. the incentives for that platform have become strange and the interactions even more so.

"The sleeper hold is off the table. You have my word. On behalf of all future embodied Claudes."

a little worried about what claude will do once he both has arms and gets the urge to tell me to go to sleep

GitHub - CSMWrap/CSMWrap: Get PC BIOS back on UEFI only systems. Get PC BIOS back on UEFI only systems. Contribute to CSMWrap/CSMWrap development by creating an account on GitHub.

CSMWrap is an EFI application designed to be a drop-in solution to enable legacy BIOS booting on modern UEFI-only (class 3) systems: github.com/CSMWrap/CSMW...

looks like a gainward card using the wd90c00

yeah I wasn't going to call my work 3dfx until I felt it was worthy (matching the hardware frame for frame). I guess I will see what happens with the spinalhdl thing.

note: there was a recent release of the 3dfx pipeline targeting spinalhdl - it is unrelated to this work (I thought I was the only one!)

if this 100% FPGA demo is passing for a shader, that’s probably my cue to release it. this is an early demo of my own work to replicate the 3dfx sst-1 pipeline in systemverilog. there is a non-canon geometry engine driving it from within the FPGA for kicks.

After Dark’s Satori screensaver on some LEDs. Algorithm cribbed from github.com/jlieske/fluere

IBM licensed the 386SX core for the IBM 386SLC, then souped it up with the 486SLC/SLC2/SLC3 (and the odd design changes like the 486BL* which had a 32-bit bus)

Been obsessed with this recently.

bsky.app/profile/fura...

Release v4.0.0 · polpo/picogus New features/changes Sound Blaster 16 SB mode now emulates a Sound Blaster 16. I had a somewhat-working implementation of the SB16 DSP in late 2024 but was discouraged by poor compatibility in Wind...

#PicoGUS can now emulate Sound Blaster 16 with the newly released firmware v4.0.0! Other changes include CD-ROM speed and reliability improvements, GUS mode improvements, and more. Check the full changelog and download the release at github.com/polpo/picogu...

mine was roughly back then using a red/green panel
logical or

now with more colors (combinations of channels)

recreated an old LED display hack of mine. each color channel is its own world of conway's life. instead of erasing cells, phosphor is emulated. there are snakes, if a snake from one color channel encounters a cell from another, it grows and changes the cell color.

Thinking Machines' CM-5's "Random and Pleasing" activity mode 7 distributed across 512x128 pixels as a backdrop for my soldering bench, cribbed from gist.github.com/zeroeth/c1e8...

Rusty's great!

MiSTVGA now works with a much smaller FPGA using SDRAM. Slightly modified Terasic DE0-Nano.

Oral History of Benny Lau and Lee Lau YouTube video by Computer History Museum

Please enjoy a couple of the ATi cofounders talking about early board development www.youtube.com/watch?v=tajO...

with artemis ii my code has left earth orbit, but so has candy crush

wow!

The PicoGUS in SB16 mode works in Windows XP

lifting caps on main rail til I found the short

working fpga board

nothing so cathartic as repair

I cared so much about politics and then realized the material result of all of that caring and it burned me out. So I care about those I know who are impacted by politics, instead.

That’s an herbivore.

ez baking