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A minimal client running on the Pico 2W connects to the Deskflow server on my ThinkPad to access its mouse and keyboard, and translates the input into mouse and keyboard protocols the Plus expects through its DE-9 and 4P4C connectors

I thought about doing the Deskflow client directly in MacTCP running on the Plus, but I so frequently need working input when the system is misbehaving or under heavy load that relying on MacTCP for input would be unreliable

aspire to write code so convoluted that no one could accuse you of using an LLM

Adrian finally checked out the boxed copies of my classic Mac software that I gave him at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest last year

(@ 44:13)
https://youtu.be/gEGFlncVyCA?t=2653

Does anyone happen to know who owns rt\.fm now? Looks like it's just parked at a Hetzner IP but not hosting anything.

I've switched over Infinite Mac's classic Mac emulation to @twvd's awesome Snow, which unblocks A/UX emulation: https://infinitemac.org/?filter=aux

There's a behind-the-scenes blog post at https://blog.persistent.info/2026/09/infinite-mac-snow-and-aux.html detailing this and other site updates.

In case your DM250 ran OpenBSD too fast, I made armv7 able to boot from a softraid disk so you can have a fully encrypted eMMC root.

Initially it looked like it was hanging after entering the passphrase but after much debugging I realized it was just taking a ridiculous amount of time (like 30 seconds) doing bcrypt hashing, which turned out to be because u-boot was running with CPU caches disabled on the RK3128, so I fixed that.

So even if you aren't using crypto softraid, if you update u-boot you'll get a faster boot since efiboot will load a little faster and that will load and start the kernel boot faster.

what are some smaller software projects or networks that need donations?

Making games and throwing them back through the time machine.
Uxn68 emulator by @d6.
https://phial.org/d6/uxn68k/
:mac:

I don't understand how people can look at these dependency trees in the average rust project and think we've advanced systems programming. This is not just a supply chain disaster, it makes building this software super inefficient.

Do people have any good examples of interesting low or no dependency rust projects? Just curious to look at the difference in code quality.

I sold everything and have nothing to bring home

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VCF or bust

I will be at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest this weekend with a table (B114) of Dolch stuff, because there are too many Macs there

https://vcfmw.org/

#computersshouldhavehandles #vcfmw

First public release of Uxn68k

https://phial.org/d6/uxn68k/

Still very new software, might not work at all on your machine. (But if you do try it out let me know how it goes!)

#Uxn emuator on Macintosh
by @d6 :mac:
https://phial.org/d6/uxn68k/

From a PSA at the end of a Twilight Zone episode

A small board sits between the ADB trackball (originally made by Logitech btw) and the logic board which has a USB port that currently houses a Logitech wireless receiver (but could support any USB mouse). It translates USB mouse HID input to ADB mouse packets.

For the mouse scroll wheel, it sends ADB keyboard Page Up and Page Down keys.

And now for my next trick...

I saw this SCSIknife Multi used in CuriousMarc's video (https://youtu.be/85mLokY_oe0)

https://www.tindie.com/products/jurassicomp/scsiknife-desktop-zuluscsitm-compatible-emulator/

I like that the single form factor has all 3 connectors (50-pin, 2.5" portable, and DB-25) populated so it can be used on anything without having to buy separate devices.