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@godotengine developer, http://prehensile-tales.com. They/Them.

Lover of old technology. Sometimes also new.

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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]
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy
It's not all doom and gloom with the #sunpci app! Some of it is quake!

#retrocomputing
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy
Perfect, absolutely no notes. Ready to ship this #sunpci client.

#retrocomputing
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy
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
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy
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]
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM