HP van Braam
@hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy
@godotengine developer, http://prehensile-tales.com. They/Them.
Lover of old technology. Sometimes also new.
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Lover of old technology. Sometimes also new.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.tmm.cx/@hp, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Wrapstodon damning with faint praise here... :)
December 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Wrapstodon damning with faint praise here... :)
For better or worse, this is my #wrapstodon2025
Apparently y'all schadenfreude loving #retrocomputing people really enjoyed the time I destroyed a DVD drive 😸
I'll do my best to destroy more hardware in 2026 for your amusement.
Sickos. 😽
Apparently y'all schadenfreude loving #retrocomputing people really enjoyed the time I destroyed a DVD drive 😸
I'll do my best to destroy more hardware in 2026 for your amusement.
Sickos. 😽
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
For better or worse, this is my #wrapstodon2025
Apparently y'all schadenfreude loving #retrocomputing people really enjoyed the time I destroyed a DVD drive 😸
I'll do my best to destroy more hardware in 2026 for your amusement.
Sickos. 😽
Apparently y'all schadenfreude loving #retrocomputing people really enjoyed the time I destroyed a DVD drive 😸
I'll do my best to destroy more hardware in 2026 for your amusement.
Sickos. 😽
I'll be giving two talks at #fosdem2026 !
On Saturday on the main stage I will be giving a talk about developing a Microsoft Bob application, and what we can learn from it today.
On Sunday I'll be talking about the history of MCI mail, the MEP2 protocol […]
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On Saturday on the main stage I will be giving a talk about developing a Microsoft Bob application, and what we can learn from it today.
On Sunday I'll be talking about the history of MCI mail, the MEP2 protocol […]
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December 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'll be giving two talks at #fosdem2026 !
On Saturday on the main stage I will be giving a talk about developing a Microsoft Bob application, and what we can learn from it today.
On Sunday I'll be talking about the history of MCI mail, the MEP2 protocol […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
On Saturday on the main stage I will be giving a talk about developing a Microsoft Bob application, and what we can learn from it today.
On Sunday I'll be talking about the history of MCI mail, the MEP2 protocol […]
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Yeah, "Processor" definitely 100% okay...
Computers were a mistake
Computers were a mistake
December 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Yeah, "Processor" definitely 100% okay...
Computers were a mistake
Computers were a mistake
Well, good news and bad news. The power supply is solid at 3.3V, that's not it.
And VTS is generally showing no issues, memory and CPU seem to be testing fine.
So why is dtwm crashing for no apparent reason all the time... I did have a bunch of stability […]
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And VTS is generally showing no issues, memory and CPU seem to be testing fine.
So why is dtwm crashing for no apparent reason all the time... I did have a bunch of stability […]
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December 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Well, good news and bad news. The power supply is solid at 3.3V, that's not it.
And VTS is generally showing no issues, memory and CPU seem to be testing fine.
So why is dtwm crashing for no apparent reason all the time... I did have a bunch of stability […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
And VTS is generally showing no issues, memory and CPU seem to be testing fine.
So why is dtwm crashing for no apparent reason all the time... I did have a bunch of stability […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Well, my #sun machine was resurrected it seems! I'm cautiously optimistic.
As a special treat here's a video showing off the #sunpci in #vga mode. This is a capture of both the Solaris and DOS side at the same time. You can see how mouse movement on the […]
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As a special treat here's a video showing off the #sunpci in #vga mode. This is a capture of both the Solaris and DOS side at the same time. You can see how mouse movement on the […]
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December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Well, my #sun machine was resurrected it seems! I'm cautiously optimistic.
As a special treat here's a video showing off the #sunpci in #vga mode. This is a capture of both the Solaris and DOS side at the same time. You can see how mouse movement on the […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
As a special treat here's a video showing off the #sunpci in #vga mode. This is a capture of both the Solaris and DOS side at the same time. You can see how mouse movement on the […]
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December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I can now also play back traces that I make from the #sunpci application! So now I don't need to have my ultra 10 powered on to even work on the client.
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I can now also play back traces that I make from the #sunpci application! So now I don't need to have my ultra 10 powered on to even work on the client.
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
Some more progress on the #sunpci client! We now have text mode rendering on par with the original (which also doesn't properly seem to handle 9dot mode)
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Some more progress on the #sunpci client! We now have text mode rendering on par with the original (which also doesn't properly seem to handle 9dot mode)
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Did I manage to build and run SDL 2.32.8 for #solaris 8? No, no I did not.
Did I manage to build and run SDL 2.0.22 for #solaris 8? Also... No.
BUT! Did I manage to build and run SDL-1.2.15!!
No, also no.
However, finally. SDL-1.2.6 is working fine with […]
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Did I manage to build and run SDL 2.0.22 for #solaris 8? Also... No.
BUT! Did I manage to build and run SDL-1.2.15!!
No, also no.
However, finally. SDL-1.2.6 is working fine with […]
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December 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Did I manage to build and run SDL 2.32.8 for #solaris 8? No, no I did not.
Did I manage to build and run SDL 2.0.22 for #solaris 8? Also... No.
BUT! Did I manage to build and run SDL-1.2.15!!
No, also no.
However, finally. SDL-1.2.6 is working fine with […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
Did I manage to build and run SDL 2.0.22 for #solaris 8? Also... No.
BUT! Did I manage to build and run SDL-1.2.15!!
No, also no.
However, finally. SDL-1.2.6 is working fine with […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You know, it's also easy to forget how slow a 440MHz single core system is. Certainly not everything was better in the past...
December 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
You know, it's also easy to forget how slow a 440MHz single core system is. Certainly not everything was better in the past...
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
After some more noodling with the #solaris kernel driver, behold the (as far as I am aware) only third-party #sunpci
driver program.
My program currently "emulates" the VGA text mode using #ncurses (poorly) but this makes development a lot faster!
Next up […]
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driver program.
My program currently "emulates" the VGA text mode using #ncurses (poorly) but this makes development a lot faster!
Next up […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
After some more noodling with the #solaris kernel driver, behold the (as far as I am aware) only third-party #sunpci
driver program.
My program currently "emulates" the VGA text mode using #ncurses (poorly) but this makes development a lot faster!
Next up […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
driver program.
My program currently "emulates" the VGA text mode using #ncurses (poorly) but this makes development a lot faster!
Next up […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
If I had a dollar for each time I had to map #sdl scancodes to a random keyboard this year I'd have 3 dollars.
That's not a lot, but it's weird I have to do this every 4 months it seems.
There is something terribly wrong with me.
#retrocomputing #sunpci
That's not a lot, but it's weird I have to do this every 4 months it seems.
There is something terribly wrong with me.
#retrocomputing #sunpci
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If I had a dollar for each time I had to map #sdl scancodes to a random keyboard this year I'd have 3 dollars.
That's not a lot, but it's weird I have to do this every 4 months it seems.
There is something terribly wrong with me.
#retrocomputing #sunpci
That's not a lot, but it's weird I have to do this every 4 months it seems.
There is something terribly wrong with me.
#retrocomputing #sunpci
Also note in the above screenshot that the "Award Modular BIOS" screen does not have the normal logo. But there's still SPACE for a logo.
The fact that the #sunpci did not show the Award logo bothered me from the start.
The reason for this is obvious now […]
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The fact that the #sunpci did not show the Award logo bothered me from the start.
The reason for this is obvious now […]
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December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Also note in the above screenshot that the "Award Modular BIOS" screen does not have the normal logo. But there's still SPACE for a logo.
The fact that the #sunpci did not show the Award logo bothered me from the start.
The reason for this is obvious now […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
The fact that the #sunpci did not show the Award logo bothered me from the start.
The reason for this is obvious now […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
I spend a bit of time dissecting the #sunpci driver in #ghidra. And I can now boot the SunPCi from my own code! Using the #solaris driver still.
Some terrifying conclusions:
The windowed output in the SunPCi userspace application comes from repeatedly […]
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Some terrifying conclusions:
The windowed output in the SunPCi userspace application comes from repeatedly […]
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December 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I spend a bit of time dissecting the #sunpci driver in #ghidra. And I can now boot the SunPCi from my own code! Using the #solaris driver still.
Some terrifying conclusions:
The windowed output in the SunPCi userspace application comes from repeatedly […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
Some terrifying conclusions:
The windowed output in the SunPCi userspace application comes from repeatedly […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I'm putting together something fun about the #sunpci for #doscember
What would you all like to know about it most! I'm testing compatibility with various DOSses, and games, of course! Any games/apps you want to see in particular?
Anything you're dying to […]
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What would you all like to know about it most! I'm testing compatibility with various DOSses, and games, of course! Any games/apps you want to see in particular?
Anything you're dying to […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
December 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'm putting together something fun about the #sunpci for #doscember
What would you all like to know about it most! I'm testing compatibility with various DOSses, and games, of course! Any games/apps you want to see in particular?
Anything you're dying to […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
What would you all like to know about it most! I'm testing compatibility with various DOSses, and games, of course! Any games/apps you want to see in particular?
Anything you're dying to […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
