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Understanding and Writing Compilers edit / delete

Richard Bornat's 1979 book on writing compilers. Substantially more accessible than the dragon book. The examples are mostly in BCPL, which (as usual) I'm dead impressed with; for a typeless language it's very clean and clearly suited to the purpose.

to bcpl compiler etext parsing retrocomputing syntax ... on 26 January 2016

Hardcore Gaming 101 - Blog: Over 1800 Atari VCS games trawled for hidden stuff! edit / delete

Apparently quite a few 2600 games include chunks of source code -- or other data, e.g. Apple or Atari ROMs -- in their cartridge image, presumably for the same reason that the Amiga Kickstart disk did. Interesting in itself, but it also reveals what development systems were being used.

to 2600 apple2 atari800 games retrocomputing ... on 24 January 2016

Amiga FPGA Accelerators edit / delete

That's one way to speed up an Amiga -- replace the CPU with a big FPGA! The A600 version has launched at €150.

to accelerator amiga fpga retrocomputing ... on 24 January 2016

Kweepa/vicdoom: Doom for the VIC-20 edit / delete

Very impressive!

to commodore doom games retrocomputing vic20 ... on 24 January 2016

Floppy Disk Preservation Project edit / delete

Copy protection for various 80s/90s platforms.

to floppy piracy retrocomputing ... on 23 January 2016

countercomplex: Some deep analysis of one-line music programs. edit / delete

viznut's collection of one-line music. Very impressive.

to audio chiptune cute-code demo demoscene glitch music retrocomputing ... on 22 January 2016

Plogue R&D: Plogue livenes edit / delete

Playing live music on the NES sound chip... by changing one bit at a time! Somewhat reminiscent of viznut's one-liners.

to chiptune music nes performance retrocomputing ... on 22 January 2016

2600 Connection edit / delete

Various "how to play arcade games" books; also includes Warren Robinett's history of 2600 Adventure, which is very interesting.

to 2600 adventure atari games history retrocomputing ... on 22 January 2016

HP Memory Project edit / delete

The history of the Hewlett-Packard company, with lots of interesting documents (e.g. the internal newsletters from various eras).

to electronics history hp retrocomputing retrotech test-equipment ... on 22 January 2016

PK-FPGA edit / delete

Recreating the 1801-based BK series of computers. The forum has lots of useful info,

to 1801 fpga pdp11 retrocomputing soviet ... on 22 January 2016