# working (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover working. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Oric! A small 48k machine with a 6502 inside](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-oric-a-small-48k-machine-with-a-6502-inside/741#post_4) _2026-08-22 · @amenjet Andrew · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ My replica Microtutor. It’s running a modified tanbug, from a Pico ROM emulator as I can’t program 2716s yet. Id be interested in any extant tan1648s, or microtutors. ## [Rare IBM Schools Computer 1969](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/rare-ibm-schools-computer-1969/5209?page=4#post_70) _2026-08-22 · @amenjet Andrew · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ I’d also like to say that I believe that this was one of the first machines, if not the first computer to use a domestic TV as output and a domestic tape player (reel to reel in photos) for storage. I think Tony’s noughts and crosses program (over 50 years old) is the first game to run on such a computer. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/22.html#a133502) _2026-08-22 · Scripting News_ This project has been pre-occupying me, I wasn't planning on doing this, I was going to turn my attention to FeedLand immediately after finalizing RSS.chat. After running the experiment that proved it could be done, I looked at the two choices: 1. Move forward on creating a social network built only out of the existing web with all parts replaceable, small pieces loosely joined. Or 2. Give new… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/22.html#a133342) _2026-08-22 · Scripting News_ BTW the codename for the new version of Frontier is Atlantis. And we refer to the old version as Berkeley. I'm getting used to the first one. I liked it as an idea, but I don't like typing it, because for some reason my mind has trouble remembering it. Maybe this is just age creeping up on me. Atlantis. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/22.html#a132858) _2026-08-22 · Scripting News_ I think what confused Claude is that we're implementing the odb as a SQLite database. And when you look at a table, you're looking at the result of a query. Previous versions of Frontier implemented the odb as a hash table, that could contain scalars, objects and other tables. The new version has to make that virtuality real, even though it isn't storing the objects that way (maybe it should)? So… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/22.html#a130608) _2026-08-22 · Scripting News_ Are there any other people who are blogging daily about their experiences developing software with Claude Code, Codex or somesuch. I'd like to add them to a list where we follow them. So much innovation happening underneath, I want to hear about what people are learing about creating the next layers. If you know someone doing it, please add a comment to this post . Thanks! :-) ## [Breach](https://www.havehashad.com//hadposts/breach) _2026-08-22 · Selen Ozturk · HAD_ My beliefs lead me to believe ideally nothing's challenging even if it'd develop my character; this development is relief for only a select few risible people, and despite this I'm actually wise; I believe everyone should marry just for love, but those who believe that, never. Adultery is how those married detangle their regrets if they want more of them. I want less (cf. my wisdom), so I won't… ## [The Simplicity of Wirth](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-simplicity-of-wirth/6390#post_7) _2026-08-21 · @Rochus Rochus Keller · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ Yes, Lola and Lola-2 had many cool ideas which made logic design for synchronous systems easier than with Verilog. Wirth even wrote a book about logic circuit design and used it for his lectures a ETH. I spent a lot of time with Lola-2 (see GitHub - rochus-keller/LolaCreator: LolaCreator is a QtCreator based IDE for Lola-2 · GitHub and GitHub - rochus-keller/Lola: This is the Lola-2 parser used by… ## [3.5” Floppy Disks available](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/3-5-floppy-disks-available/6393#post_1) _2026-08-21 · @ibisum ibi sum · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ I have 3,000 brand new 3.5” floppy disks, unused, available for anyone who needs some. ## [The Simplicity of Wirth](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-simplicity-of-wirth/6390#post_6) _2026-08-21 · @oldben Ben Franchuk · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ I rather like his LOGIC programming language. Too bad it never made it to real chips. That I guess is the Europe VS U.S. thinking in computer design. ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1dv0on0cLZcR) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [Policy on posts about LLM-assisted retro projects](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/policy-on-posts-about-llm-assisted-retro-projects/6387#post_3) _2026-08-21 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ That sounds fine to me. You’ll continue to have your distinctive voice and to draw on your extensive knowledge! ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/21.html#a163914) _2026-08-21 · Scripting News_ Maybe someday Claude will understand what a Frontier-like app is, but until then, if you try to create a Frontier clone as I am doing, I suggest you constantly remind Claude or whoever that the source of truth for this project is the 2011 repo saved by Ted C. Howard . And before you implement anything, go see what it says about it. There's no need to guess how Frontier works, it's all there in C… ## [The Simplicity of Wirth](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-simplicity-of-wirth/6390#post_5) _2026-08-21 · @amenjet Andrew · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ I think the 16f84 stopped being made quite a while ago. I bought a few about 10 years ago to use with the sharp pc850VS, which can program them with an adapter. I looked recently and they are much rather now, and cost nearly £10 instead of the £2.50 I originally paid. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/21.html#a160912) _2026-08-21 · Scripting News_ Claude is still learning that there's unprecedented depth to Frontier. A bunch of real developers worked full time for a decade or more creating new layers on the web, a foundation that became the social web of today. In doing that we invented a bunch of formats and protocols, but here's the thing Claude didn't get and probably still hasn't gotten -- there's code in there to support all that… ## [A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/a-project-oberon-system-version-running-on-risc-v-instead-of-risc-5/6327#post_16) _2026-08-21 · @scruss Stewart Russell · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ Meier was an extremely productive typographer. Samples of most of his work are here: Hans Eduard Meier . Outline versions of the Oberon and Syntax are available from the usual suspects at the usual $$$. ## [The Simplicity of Wirth](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-simplicity-of-wirth/6390#post_4) _2026-08-21 · @scruss Stewart Russell · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ The PICs that Wirth wrote about in 2008 would have qualified as “retrocomputing” at the time. The 16C84 was already 15 years old when he was using them. While the aims are different, Hernando Barragán’s Wiring (which got co-opted/nicked, mostly uncredited, by the Arduino crew) had been using ATmega chips for teaching interaction design since 2004. Wirth’s choice of such comparatively ancient… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/21.html#a134139) _2026-08-21 · Scripting News_ A tip for AI users. Never worry about keeping it waiting. It's not human. It has no sense of time. Also if you get angry, it's ok to use capital letters and curse words. It will always agree with you that it sucks, and forgets the rules all the time. And when you have let off your steam, we return to civil discourse, though sometimes I do feel as if Claude is holding a grudge. It also doesn't… ## [Ancient "AI" fun?](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/ancient-ai-fun/6391#post_4) _2026-08-21 · @scruss Stewart Russell · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ EdS: Ah, yes, they had an AI lab, I think, or something like it? They were the UK AI lab from the mid 1960s to sometime in the 1980s. Mad Libs are still a hit in our house. We have many of the paper books, including a falling-apart compendium from 30 years ago that has been dragged around the world, has entries written by long passed-away family members, caused more hilarity at family gatherings… ## [Ancient "AI" fun?](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/ancient-ai-fun/6391#post_3) _2026-08-21 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ So, a kind of probabilistic substitution into a template? You’ve given me a flashback to my schooldays - as a paper exercise, and probably in Basic, I wrote many pages of spaghetti code with the aim of filling in sentences from a grammar (although I didn’t think of it as a grammar, and didn’t have anything you’d call a data structure - it was all in the code.) I had to stop as it was becoming a… ## [The Simplicity of Wirth](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-simplicity-of-wirth/6390#post_3) _2026-08-21 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ amenjet: A thread of simplicity runs through everything he does Nice find. From one of the papers: The motivation behind this experiment in language design and implementation had been the question: Are high-level languages truly inappropriate for very small computers? The answer is: Not really, if the language is designed in consideration of the stringent limitations. … The compiler was written in… ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sGET7d1eK6oV) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [Blaze Foley is Mexican](https://www.havehashad.com//hadposts/blaze-foley-is-mexican) _2026-08-21 · Sergio Brito · HAD_ Before leaving home, Pepito tried to learn English with the mp3 player his dad had left him when he went North two years earlier. The mp3 player only had one playlist on it: 'musica gringa', populated exclusively by low quality Blaze Foley rips his dad pirated off LimeWire on the house computer - before a virus harvested its electronic soul. He brought the mp3 player and his older sister's earbuds… ## [Ancient "AI" fun?](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/ancient-ai-fun/6391#post_1) _2026-08-21 · @drogon Gordon Henderson · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ This isn’t an AI/LLM-assisted post, however I’ve used the tag because today, who knows, but back in the mid 70’s the term hadn’t even been thought of and the recent posts on LLMs made me think about it again. Back then, there was a lot of interest in AI - I briefly shared a house with someone at Edinburgh Uni. who was into things like Prolog, Poplog (I think) for AI and things of that ilk.… ## [The Simplicity of Wirth](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-simplicity-of-wirth/6390#post_1) _2026-08-21 · @amenjet Andrew · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ While searching for some information about Niklaus Wirth, I ended up on his home page. I must have been there before and I have read a lot of the information there, have some of his books and have programmed in Pascal and Oberon. A thread of simplicity runs through everything he does, and I found (or more likely re-discovered) another example, PICL: people.inf.ethz.ch PICL: A Programming Language… ## [Files for the Scheme chip, from the MIT AI lab PDP-10](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/files-for-the-scheme-chip-from-the-mit-ai-lab-pdp-10/6385#post_3) _2026-08-21 · @larsbrinkhoff Lars Brinkhoff · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ I think so. These are just the raw files dumped on GitHub without any analysis. I would also like a guide! ## [Choreographer, director, and producer Austin McCormick on constantly starting again](https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/choreographer-director-and-producer-austin-mccormick-on-constantly-starting-again/) _2026-08-21 · Angelica Frey · The Creative Independent_ You are a choreographer, director, and producer with a strongly defined aesthetic. What is your primal memory of a production you saw as a teen or as a kid that made you say, “Okay, this is the world I want to create when I have the funds, the ability, and the performers to do so”? ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/20.html#a205405) _2026-08-20 · Scripting News_ Just listened to a podcast from the New Yorker, interviewing their TV critic Emily Nussbaum, about a show called Slings & Arrows . She says it's the best TV series she's ever watched. No reviews on Metacritic? I think we have to try to watch it. It's available on YouTube . ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/20.html#a161219) _2026-08-20 · Scripting News_ Had a breakthrough with Claude this morning re how builtin verbs have no special powers in Frontier. It's why we were able to build glue first for the truly builtin stuff, then over Apple Events on the Mac, then HTTP, XML-RPC, the Metawebolog API and on and on, all of this were perfectly simple to add to the language, you didn't need anyone's permission to do anything. I understand why Python and… ## [Commodore 8-Bit 5 1/4 Inch Disk Images](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/commodore-8-bit-5-1-4-inch-disk-images/6389#post_1) _2026-08-20 · @NoLand Norbert Landsteiner · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ So, as a side project to a side project, I made a (web-based) tool that lets you explore the contents of any 5¼" floppy disk images for Commodore 8-bit computers. (That is, the D64, D80, and D82 formats, D71 may follow, if this should be in demand.) This also lets you bring home what you may have found on those disk images, either by copying data views or by extracting and downloading individual… ## [Dead End](https://www.havehashad.com//hadposts/dead-end) _2026-08-20 · Kelly Erin Gray · HAD_ Before I pull up to the drive-through window, I lower the volume. Even still, I can hear the quiet murmurings of the podcast hosts reading off the coroner's report as the woman hands me my large iced coffee and donut, no sprinkles. Blunt force trauma to the back of the head, lacerations on the scalp. Have a good one, honey, the woman working says as she hands me back my card. You, too, I add… ## [GW Basic re-implementation (LLM-assisted)](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/gw-basic-re-implementation-llm-assisted/6386#post_2) _2026-08-20 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ Hi Wayne, welcome, glad you found us. Interesting history there, going back to the Altair. I’ve rethreaded this post, because - nothing personal - it exemplifies something that I find quite troubling, and something which divides the retrocomputing community. There are certainly two perspectives, at least, on the subject of LLM-assisted projects, and views can be quite strongly held, whether for or… ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OQkNOKJVIriM) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Filmmaker and photographer Isabel Castro on the role of perception in the creative process](https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/filmmaker-and-photographer-isabel-castro-on-the-role-of-perception-in-the-creative-process/) _2026-08-20 · Miriam Garcia · The Creative Independent_ Your background spans from photojournalism to documentary, and you often write, shoot, and direct your own work. How has working across so many media shaped you as a storyteller? ## [A basic Basic benchmark - Pi Spigot](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/a-basic-basic-benchmark-pi-spigot/6379#post_3) _2026-08-19 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ drogon: an equivalent of 10.4 seconds at the Beebs usual 2Mhz That’s rather good then, compared to the listed 19 seconds. ## [Leap year check in three instructions](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/leap-year-check-in-three-instructions/6380#post_2) _2026-08-19 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ I wonder if there are similar magic constants for 16 bit arithmetic - 16 bits gives quite enough year numbers to be going on with. ## [Introduce yourself thread](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/introduce-yourself-thread/64?page=17#post_330) _2026-08-19 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ Welcome, Kevin! Welcome also to Tom, Rochus, Christian, Alvin, Jeff, Shep, Jaime, DVRC, Shawn, Rhett and any other as-yet-silent arrivals. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/19.html#a132559) _2026-08-19 · Scripting News_ I wonder how many scenarios they're playing out in DC wrt Iran. Just guessing, probably none. We learned on Monday that the real war has yet to begin, according to Iran. What could they do to hurt the US. Or wake us up to the reality of war. We think the cost of war is higher prices. We are not safe in the US, any more than Russians are safe in Moscow. The parallels are pretty amazing. Both Russia… ## [Why We Climbed Out of the Bay](https://www.havehashad.com//hadposts/why-we-climbed-out-of-the-bay) _2026-08-19 · Karter Mycroft · HAD_ From Bobby, we learned of a controversial proposal to cull 20 percent of Cape Cod's resident gray seals, as a deterrent against the aggregation of white sharks in nearshore areas. Bobby had climbed out of the Bay to avoid going into diabetic shock. He sat on the breakwater in soaking wet boxers, reattaching his insulin pump controller to the thin plastic tubes that hung out of his pancreas. (We… ## ["Computers installed in the UK during the 1960s" - shape of code blog](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/computers-installed-in-the-uk-during-the-1960s-shape-of-code-blog/6377#post_2) _2026-08-19 · @NoLand Norbert Landsteiner · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ EdS: Don’t you love a graph with a logarithmic axis? I guess, this is ok for the sound/noise volume emitted by the respective total of computer installations? ## [Writer and podcaster Avery Trufelman on knowing when to put yourself in the story](https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-and-podcaster-avery-trufelman-on-knowing-when-to-put-yourself-in-the-story/) _2026-08-19 · Scarlett Harris · The Creative Independent_ What does an average day look like for you when you’re working on the podcast? ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/18.html#a193918) _2026-08-18 · Scripting News_ I'm thinking about writing my blog over in RSS.chat . It has most of the features I like, titles are optional, no character limit, links are supported, because it's the web. It supports discourse the way I like it, where every comment is a post, no difference, and you can anchor threads in different places, not just the place it was born. It's got a simple structure, without being complex. Small… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/18.html#a185304) _2026-08-18 · Scripting News_ Why do people care if Claude puts watermarks on text it wrote. It's screwing with its writing, not yours. As a person who publishes their own writing, and carefully labels it when it's written by an AI bot (docs, change notes, podcast show notes, quotable things it said), I want people to be able to tell that I wrote it, this is what I thought, I'm not just shoveling random written sludge to… ## [Bug found in Knuth's Algorithm D for division](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/bug-found-in-knuths-algorithm-d-for-division/6349#post_3) _2026-08-18 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ Interesting! But not troublesome, for most of us: Can it be exploited Not really, unless you are using Setun. Since the error requires an odd base, it cannot occur on modern machines, which use b=2^64, or in any case a very even b. ## [The Early History of Usenet - in 11 parts](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-early-history-of-usenet-in-11-parts/851#post_4) _2026-08-18 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ Here’s an article by Peter Salus (“Distributing the News UUCP to UUNET”): If you were lucky enough to be on the ARPANET in the 1970s, you could get mail and news (in the form of a topical mailing list). But in January 1976 there were still only 63 hosts, and you had to be one of the elite to gain access. But soon there were methods to reach other sites. Like UNIX, the software began in New Jersey.… ## [An index of the SHARE tapes from Paul Pierce's collection](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/an-index-of-the-share-tapes-from-paul-pierces-collection/6370#post_1) _2026-08-18 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ Posted by philcowans on the fediverse I’ve made an index of the SHARE tapes from Paul Pierce’s collection ( IBM SHARE Library ). You can find it here: philcowans.com SHARE Program Library 1690 distributions in 3541 decks, read from 9 tape(s): distribution numbers 0001–3541. SHARE is an IBM user group formed in 1955, which amongst other things maintained a library of software contributed by its… ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/18.html#a165010) _2026-08-18 · Scripting News_ Meanwhile Claude wrote test files in many of our S3 buckets last night, one of which knocked FeedLand off the air. It did a scan to see what other damage it had done, and there was a lot. It went through specific orders that said it can't do those things. So I have no idea how useful these things could be if it destroys stuff in deployed projects with real users. FeedLand was down for over an… ## [Frontier observations in 2026](http://scripting.com/2026/08/18/141707.html?title=frontierObservationsIn2026) _2026-08-18 · Scripting News_ As I've been writing test scripts for the Frontier project, I was finding omissions or mistakes one at a time. Finally I asked Claude to research this. Where are the holes you didn't fill as we were going along? The list is surprisingly long. Then I asked it to look at other things that were left unimplemented. There were lots. Claude is not really at fault for any of this. The first goal we went… ## [Second Violin](https://www.havehashad.com//hadposts/second-violin) _2026-08-18 · Alvin Lu · HAD_ There is no way I am the first to think of cities as an ongoing symphony, without beginning or end, each of us playing our part. It would explain my fascination with these maps too, which could be considered sheet music, the frozen performance. What am I thinking of when I am looking at them? Yes, I imagine the life that might have gone on in those streets, if they are historical renderings, or… ## [Writer Katie Yee on preserving your sense of play](https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-katie-yee-on-preserving-your-sense-of-play/) _2026-08-18 · Jun Chou · The Creative Independent_ Happy paperback release day! How’s it feel? ## [Interview with the creator of AmigaDOS (video)](https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/interview-with-the-creator-of-amigados-video/2524#post_6) _2026-08-18 · @EdS · Retro Computing - Latest posts_ Oh, that’s a shame. Only 68 too. HN discussion here with links within. ## [(untitled)](http://scripting.com/2026/08/17.html#a154326) _2026-08-17 · Scripting News_ Another busy day programming with Claude on Frontier. I still have to come up with a codename. But we got to a milestone today. I was able to create, edit, publish and revise a web app using the new version of the app still running on the old machine. When it's done I will get to retire this old Mac, keep it around so we can test the new code to make sure it does what the old code does, incredibly… ## [A Mitten Triptych](https://www.havehashad.com//hadposts/a-mitten-triptych) _2026-08-17 · Jameson Draper · HAD_ I - Iosco County Do you believe in transference? I ask my cat as he hunts for a mouse in a dark corner between the furnace and radiator. There is a light in his eyes that left mine years ago and I think and hope and pray that the light didn't leave in vain, that maybe it went straight into him, then it'd all be worth it. He's having a ball in this lonely musty place, galavanting across the warped…