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Hang on... this is bonkers! Booting an IBM PC compatible pc mounting a drive via the #serialport ! Something like the modern computers #netboot !
https://youtu.be/g7ScyiO19Pg?si=OcAB5Qsfl4xOykZ0
He uses the #xtide #opensource #bios (https://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/) and a null modem cable to a windows computer. Unfortunately it seems the disk #emulator app is available only for Windows, but I imagine it could be implemented in a #serial #wifi #modem firmware (like #zimodem or #theoldnet 's). Imagine having a #samba share on your #NAS and telling the wifi modem to mount an image on that, then turn on the old pc and boot it from your NAS via WIFI... awesome!!!

#retrocomputing #tandy #pc
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COLOR ROBOT BATTLE TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Robots faced each other for 20 rounds running at 100x the original CPU speed for a maximum possible score of 360.

354 - Cugel by AlchemicRaker
280 - Pong2 by Fractality
177 - Sentinel by Fractality
141 - Frack3 by Terry Newton
138 - Tau by Impomatic
99 - Simon AlchemicRaker
43 - Mike Bot by Mike Day

Congratulations to AlchemicRaker and Fractality on their incredible scores, and thanks to everyone who entered 🙂
#tandy #retrocomputing

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Speaking of #ROMs for #ix86 / #amd64: Does anyone know a good way to implement something like #Linux in #ROM like the #Tandy #1000RL & #1000RLX did with #MSDOS & #DeskMate:
youtube.com/watch?v=JIEPqD4luG via @vwestlife

  • Or is this something that requires either going down the #PCIe -> #PCI -> #ISA rabbit hole?

I mean, it would be a way cleaner setup to boot OS/1337 to than booting a #CDROM?

  • If noone has an Idea how to make this happen, is there any good way or existing solution to basically make a hardware write-protectable / #readonly #USB flashdrive to boot from?

Ideally something that can take #BIOS-style ROM Chips that one can put on a board without write-enable connected so they're read-only!

Still having like a #minimalist #Linux distro in Boot-ROM would be nifty, espechally when it comes to making a #SecureComputing "#SSH #Terminal"...

  • Maybe @ActionRetro, @mos_8502 and others can point this question to people who are firm in boot ROMs and potentially even have something at hand.

(I don't expect something like a PCI(e Mini)Card but I'd not be against it!)

🌟 Color Robot Battle Programming Tournament 🌟

There's a Color Robot Battle tournament at the Retro Computer Fest on 10 Nov and everyone is welcome to enter, whether or not you attend the event.

Rules:

1) no pacifist robots
2) robots must use at least one random condition
3) please name your robot
4) robots will battle round-robin
5) robots will be published after the event
6) deadline 8th Nov

corewar.co.uk/colorrobotbattle
entries by email to digital.wilderness at googlemail