- Reading the quickstart leads me to believe this is quite an interesting project. But imho their website is... not great. Now, this is obviously not an IDE, but a suite of command line tools, but they could still do with some screenshots of example code or simple games that were made with it just for some visual appeal and to grab attention. Visual fluff can make a lot of difference for perception of these projects.
- It's cool to see those, though I admit I was never a fan of the weird Media Player skins and always kept with the simplest possible one (as that just got out of the way of the content).
- I'd been using Foxit PDF reader because of its small size and corresponding fast startup speed. That has ballooned to 200MB now as well, and I'm now using the PDF support built in to the browser (Firefox being my browser of choice). Firefox is, as of today, a 68MB download for the installer, and it does a while lot more than display PDFs.
A little disgusting that Adobe creates a file literally 10x the size of a full-featured browser yet having a small subset of the functionality.
- An additional link from the Microsoft Open Source Blog: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-o.../
As I've been toying around with a 6502 emulator, it's of particular interest to me at this time. Total aside: the 6502 is such a simple architecture and very well documented, doing an emulator for it is a great exercise.
- That's some impressive analysis and reverse engineering.
- Post on his actual channel: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxlxGXbAp493rLsgFSTZkLyuz_dEw...
- What that "data recovery" firm did to the tape should be considered a crime!
- I wouldn't really call this a port, but it is definitely some impressive work in getting it to run on a platform this different from the target hardware.
- Hoping you'll make a quick CSS adjustment for the links in the top bar in dark mode. They're black on near-black right now, for visited links. I use custom CSS to fix that for myself right now.
In particular, there is a line in layout.css that goes:
.page-header a:visited { color: #000; }
and should probably have an override in dark.css.
- What dark mode are you using? I'm happy to change the CSS but wasn't aware this was a problem.
- Here is the blog post where they give more information: https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con...
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The part I would call a true port is how he changed the ReactOS bootloader to work with the AppleTV - looking through the commit history on that is fascinating, I can recommend it if you haven't done so. Check it out at https://github.com/DistroHopper39B/reactos/commits/AppleTV-D...
To be honest, I'm actually more impressed by how he got XP to work almost entirely unmodified than if he had done what I would consider a true port of the full OS.