Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run. The result is the Virtual OS Museum, a launcher and Linux VM that boots 570-odd operating systems on top of QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM, with everything pre-installed, pre-configured, and rolled back to a known-good state by a snapshot tool when an install breaks. — Read the rest
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Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub's frequent outages have made it "no longer a place for serious work," prompting him to move his Ghostty terminal emulator project elsewhere after 18 years on the platform. The Register reports: "I've been angry about it. I've hurt people's feelings. I've been lashing out. Because GitHub is failing me, every single day, and it is personal. It is…
My first experience of emulation was ZSNES in the late 1990s, letting me return to what then seemed like ancient history: the _early_ 1990s. I could finally finish _Secret of Mana!_ And I did. It was magical to learn that the new thing could pretend to be the old thing, even if it didn't run so well on my Pentium 133. — Read the rest
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Atari has acquired emulation studio Implicit Conversions for an undisclosed amount.
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Official emulation, at the palm of your hand.
Obsolescence Guaranteed has introduced the PiDP-1, a hardware replica of the original 1960 PDP-1 computer, reimplemented using a Raspberry Pi for retro computing, gaming, and demoscene-style graphics programming. The kit recreates the front panel, switches, and interactive workflow of the original machine while running a software simulation on modern hardware. The system is part of […]
Do you still need Rosetta to translate Intel code so it runs on Apple silicon? With macOS 26.4, Rosetta warnings will start, telling that it won't be available for much longer.
The ancient question of whether or not it’s possible to construct a circle with the same area as a given square using only a drawing compass and straightedge was finally …read more
Nintendo has issued a fresh batch of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices to several emulators using repositories on GitHub.
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