vintage-computing

Earn RTC crypto by contributing to the RustChain ecosystem. Bounties from 1-150 RTC. Star, code, write tutorials, find bugs.

llama.cpp optimizations for IBM POWER8: vec_perm non-bijunctive collapse, PSE hardware entropy, DCBT prefetch. Sovereign inference. Part of the Proof of Physical AI stack.

Legend of Elya — N64 game with a real 6.36M-parameter ternary transformer on the VR4300 MIPS III CPU. Zelda-style dungeon, AI NPCs, byte-level inference at 1.23 tok/s scalar / 2.19 tok/s on the RSP overlay (measured under ares, never on silicon). Built with libdragon.

Local LLM agent for vintage Mac hardware. Built on a 2013 Mac Pro trashcan with dual AMD FirePro D500s. Elyan Labs.

WORLD FIRST: llama.cpp for Mac OS X Tiger & Leopard on PowerPC G4/G5

Digital archaeology skill for cataloging rare hardware, archiving software assets, and bridging to Beacon agent identities and RustChain Proof-of-Antiquity attestations. Based on Echoes of the Silicon Age research.

ZX Spectrum bitmap font tools.

NeoBleeper is the world's first AI-enabled tune creation software using the system speaker (aka PC Speaker) on the motherboard, inspired by the Bleeper Music Maker software by Robbi-985 (aka SomethingUnreal).

RustChain for classic AmigaOS (m68k): miner, SDK, tools, bootable AROS distro, amiports package manager, micro-JVM

AmigaTools by Elyan Labs: modern apps for classic 68k AmigaOS. Gemini browser, Mastodon and Nostr clients, an MCP server, a Claude client, Lua, the narrator voice, and the Boing Ball. Native C, cross-compiled for m68k.

Edge MoE inference on 1988 silicon: an integer-only ternary transformer live on a Sega Genesis 68000 — memory-mapped cartridge ROM makes expert activation free. Zero-cost expert routing, measured.

Headless emulation of classic dot-matrix printers — Apple ImageWriter I/II, Apple DMP and Epson FX-80. Feed it the byte stream, get back a timed stream of dot strikes and paper feeds. No DOM, no dependencies.

Run Netscape Communicator 4.8 natively on modern Linux.

A 1994-style AppleTalk render farm of emulated Macs in Docker, driven by a patched Basilisk II with an ADB-layer control server

Beehive Bit Bunker Bundles: experiments in vintage computing

The Firmware and 6502-side code for a Raspberry Pi Pico W acting as a smart network bridge via a 65C22 VIA parallel interface.

Thought leadership white paper on Proof-of-Antiquity consensus and vintage hardware preservation

Runtime control utility for S3 ViRGE and Trio graphics chips on DOS. Fixes the "grey blacks" pedestal bug at boot, reads/writes MCLK, no BIOS flash required.

TinyML quantization result: on the SNES 65816, ternary beats int8 by 2.02x despite a free hardware multiply — because the cost is operand traffic, not arithmetic. A transformer LLM on 1990 silicon.

Complete guide to install and emulate Tru64 UNIX 5.1B on x86_64 via QEMU/AlphaSim. Includes network config, patches, Oracle 9i deployment. DEC Alpha UNIX history.