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Insentricity
Personal blog · insentricity.comhardwaresystemsprogramming
Insentricity is a personal blog at insentricity.com about hardware, systems and programming. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “A Multi-Format Cross-Platform Floppy for 5.25“ Floppy Day”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Insentricity's retro computing posts on BBSing with WiFi232, cross-building for CP/M, an XTIDE hard drive server for Linux/RPi, and booting a 486 from floppy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Crazy ideas I have
Most-linked posts?
- A Multi-Format Cross-Platform Floppy for 5.25“ Floppy Day2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-25
- Adding a Hard Drive to an Original IBM PC Using a Raspberry Pi2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-10
What Hacker News says?
Or you can use raspberry pi and tcpser http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/215/putting-your-retro-comp...
Comment linking /a.cl/215/putting-your-retro-computer-on-the-line
on “The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has Never Been Easier”Submitted Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel as a story · 315 points
HN discussionAnother alternative to building under an emulated CP/M environment is to cross-build directly under Linux. If you need something that can assemble code intended for LASM you can use this: http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/259
Comment linking /a.cl/259
on “CP/M development environment setup”Submitted Linux plus CP/M plus assembly equals LASM as a story · 59 points
HN discussionRelated - FozzTech implemented the XTIDE server for Linux/RPI: http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/244/adding-a-hard-drive-to-...
Comment linking /a.cl/244/adding-a-hard-drive-to-an-original-ibm-pc-using-a-raspberry-pi
on “XTIDE Universal BIOS”Submitted I Hear That Asteroids Machine Calling My Name as a story · 56 points
HN discussionTo build minimal linux systems, I've found Minimal Linux Live [^1] and Floppinux [^2] useful. There was a list of build steps for 486 [^3] as well, in case you are targeting older machines. [1]: https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal-linux-script [2]: https://github.com/w84death/floppinux [3]: https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/283/booting-a-486-from-flo...
Comment linking /a.cl/283/booting-a-486-from-floppy-with-the-most-up-to-date-stable-linux-kernel
on “Building a Tiny Linux from Scratch”Submitted Adding a Hard Drive to an Original IBM PC Using a Raspberry Pi as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using modems without phone lines as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi-Format Cross-Platform Floppy for 5.25“ Floppy Day - Atari/Apple/Commodore as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Multi-Format Cross-Platform Floppy for 5.25“ Floppy Day as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using modems without phone lines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Analog Support for the Apple II to Ninepin as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing Linux Sysadmin Tasks from Your 8-Bitter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a Raspberry Pi into an unified retro peripheral as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encoding Software in Barcodes, the Eight-Bit Magazine Way as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Multi-Format Cross-Platform Floppy for 5.25“ Floppy Day as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kermit on the JAIR 8080 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 30 years ago I became a programmer as a story · 1 points
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