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Building My Own Computer – Part 2
In 2024, I posted about how I designed and built a computer based on the Intel 8088 CPU. I achieved my objective of playing Civilization under MS-DOS, but a few issues remained that I really wanted to address. There were (self-inflicted) constraints in the bug-fixing pass: the main one was that I wanted to do…
Building My Own Computer
A while ago, I stumbled onto this blog post by Alexandru Groza that described the author’s journey to build their own 80386 single-board computer. It felt insurmountable to tackle such a project – while I have in the past successfully repaired simpler computers (like Commodore 64s), an entire computer build from schematic through to running…
More Holiday Projects
The other major holiday project I worked on over the end-of-year break was to take my 3D engine and build something with it. I have a lot of little tech demos and ideas but nothing that’s actually “finished”. Many years ago, I worked on a 3D engine that ended up being capable of loading Quake…