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BSDRP: BSD Router Project

Tuesday, August 25 2009 @ 13:41 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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BSDRP or BSD Router Project is interesting. It is an embedded open source router distribution based on FreeBSD, with Quagga and XORP for routing. And it all fits on a 512 MB flash card / usb memory stick. Cool!

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The Fabulous Logic Analyzer

Thursday, August 20 2009 @ 21:05 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Here is another interesting project: The Fabulous Logic Analyzer is a simple logic analyzer for the PC. This one consists of a simple schematic which is attached on the PCs parallel port (a real parallel port is highly recommended, not a USB adapter) and which can analyze H and L levels of 8 inputs. On the PC, there's running a graphical program which displays the contents. Supported platforms: FreeBSD / i386, OpenBSD / i386, Linux, Solaris / x86, Windows.

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cwfloppy - The Linux Catweasel block device driver

Wednesday, August 19 2009 @ 00:51 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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If you are a Linux user, and have a Catweasel controller, the cwfloppy driver might be for you.
Other tools: the Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools can read and write TRS-80 disks and can can make an exact image of any disk written using a Western Digital 177x/179x floppy disk controller, a PC-style NEC765-compatible controller, or a Digital Equipment Corporation RX02 controller (but does not support Amiga, Apple II, or Atari disks).

IDE64 - ATA / ATAPI interface cartridge for Commodore 64 / 128 computers

Thursday, August 13 2009 @ 14:42 CEST
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The IDE64 Project (Wikipedia: IDE64) is aAn ATA / ATAPI interface cartridge for Commodore 64 / 128 computers supporting Hard Disk, CDROM, DVD, ZiP drive, LS-120 (A-Drive), CompactFlash and more. There is IDEDOS to support it. Popular old computers dont die - they get more stuff!

64HDD - low cost storage for your Commodore 64

Thursday, August 13 2009 @ 14:12 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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64HDD is a low-cost alternative to purchasing a Hard Drive for your Commodore� (C64, C128, Plus4/C16 or Vic20).
The 64HDD software lets you connect your Commodore computer to the LPT port of a PC using a standard X1541 or XE1541 transfer cable.
64HDD works with "images" of real Commodore disks and tapes. These images are created by transferring the data from a real disk/tape to a standard file format. Typical disk images are known as D64 files. Typical tape images are known as T64 files. There are many programs available that will let you transfer your data, and many websites that host archived D64 files.

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A Tiny 80(C)32 BASIC Board

Thursday, August 13 2009 @ 13:40 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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A Tiny 80(C)32 BASIC Board by Ronald Dekker is interesting. He built a small microcomputer wich runs basic (Intel MCS BASIC-52), just from salvaged components.

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Hercules - System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator

Wednesday, August 12 2009 @ 00:28 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bit z/Architecture. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows (98, NT, 2000, and XP), Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X (10.3 and later). There is also a FreeBSD port of Hercules.

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ROS - Robot Operating System

Monday, August 10 2009 @ 21:07 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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ROS, the Robot Operating System is interesting, even if it makes me think of Skynet. Originally developed (2007) in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in support of the Stanford AI Robot (STAIR) project but now (as of 2008) developed primarily by Willow Garage, a robotics research institute/incubator. It is free for commercial and research use under a BSD license. The library runs primarily on Linux but is intended to be cross-platform for Mac OS X and Windows.

Citizen Engineer

Sunday, August 09 2009 @ 01:37 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 78

Citizen Engineer is an online video series and comic book/zine about open source hardware, electronics, art and hacking by Limor (Ladyada) Fried of Adafruit Industries & Phillip (pt) Torrone of MAKE magazine.

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Zet - x86 compatible soft processor

Sunday, August 02 2009 @ 22:19 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Since I got myself an Altera DE1 board, I have been trying out as many FPGA implementations of hardware as I can find time to. Zet processor is an open implementation of the so widely used IA-32 architecture (generally called x86). Currently, only the 16-bit 8086/80186 work. But still it can boot MS-DOS 6.22 and FreeDOS 1.1. I testet Zet version 0.6.1 and followed the Altera DE1 Installation guide, booting from A: in flash. It was very retro to see MS-DOS booting from A: again. except for om screen misalignment, and a noise in the speaker, it worked fine.

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