BedroomLAN

Well, Hello There

This site has existed continuously since 1994 and has gone through more redesigns and reincarnations than something that's undergone slightly fewer redesigns and reincarnations. The code is vehemently unsupported, the information chronically obsolete, the opinions doggedly idiotic and the artistic merit highly dubious. Stick around, we have more adverbs and we're not afraid to use them.

The CFT Project

The CFT is a homebrew mini-computer made from scratch out of discrete logic chips. ‘From scratch’ means I've designed the instruction set, data path, processor, computer, software stack, cross-assembler, emulator, software toolchain and even some of the hardware tools needed.

2013

Ελληνική Πληκτρολόγηση

Πού θα βρείτε στο πληκτρολόγιό σας το ελληνικό ερωτηματικό, διπλή τελεία, άνω τελεία, ελληνικά εισαγωγικά, τόνους με διαλυτικά και άλλους δύστροπους χαρακτήρες, με οδηγίες πληκτρολόγησης για χρήστες Linux, Mac και Windows.

2011

Greek

greek

Vincula's Guide to Greek Sexuality

Id est, a Sarcastic Bastard's Dictionary of Esoteric Sexual Practices, Paraphernalia & Diverse Arcana.

Also Known As, It's not Confusing—You're Just Stupid. Or Gay. Or Both. Probably Both.

2005

humour

Oric C Programming

This series of articles is a C language tutorial, focused on using C efficiently on Oric computers. The language combines a set of features which make it an excellent choice for most programming tasks, from system programming to Artificial Intelligence. Unfortunately, it was not designed with small eight-bit systems in mind. As a result, the Oric implementation of C is a cut-down version.

1994

13K

Saying ‘No’ to yes

Finally, it's good to be negative. Especially when you inadvertently fire off dozens of yesprocesses and you're connected via SSH. A solution to the problem Nietzsche himself would have been proud of. (spoiler: no chance)

September

Linux

Nova 64

September

retrocomputing

Trying to finish the JavaScript port of Kareltima III and having to redesign most of the program because of the differences between traditional and event-driven programming—haven't had this much ‘fun’ since The Major BBS.

July

My Oric Telestrat has been faulty for 24 years, since an accident with the 12V rail of its power supply. Last week a page about restoring old micros gave me enough hope that maybe not all of its components will be dead, and I can maybe fix it. I certainly have the equipment now, if not the time.

July

retrocomputing

That amusing moment when you realise the Pygments syntax highlighting library can grok Befunge code natively. 👍

June

Digging for ancient content for this site has made me very nostalgic for too many things! And also the opposite. What's the opposite of nostalgic when you dig too deep for mithril and eventually unearth your own personal Balrogs?

June

1970s 300 Baud Modem

June

retrocomputing

Lake Doxa

May

Listing Swap Consumers on Linux

Another deceptive little problem on Linux. If you have a machine that's dipping deep into its swap space, how do you find what processes consume the most?

April

Linux

Gathering retro content. So far I've managed to transfer disk images of all my Apple II (well, IIe) programs, the last ever version of my first ever website, and a ton of code written on MS-DOS between 1991 and 1993.

April