Stories by zdw

Counting the transistors in the 8086 processor: it's harder than you might think

Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environment in Common Lisp

What three new USGS maps reveal about Mars

Conversion of HP 54520C / 54540C oscilloscopes to VGA display(s)

Nintendo 64 Java

Sometimes it actually is a kernel bug: bind() in Linux 6.0.16

Atari 2600 hardware design: Making something out of almost nothing

OpenBSD: Retguard for Amd64 System Calls

Safe Memory Reclamation for Bind

Sierra’s Macintosh Timebomb (2021)

New Timepiece for a Classic Mac – Part 1

Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long

Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (2017)

My Git settings for carrying local changes on top of upstream development

The Floppy Flops (Travelling to Tokio, Part 2)

My Homemade iPad Mini Bike Mount

Vulkan Video Decoding

Adm3a terminal numpad recreation (and bonus USB numpad)

High level mods/patches for console video games

Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood