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Wilfred Hughes

Jul 7, 2020 at 06:23

Compiling Linux so it can fit on a floppy and boot on a 486! I'm really impressed you can still make it small enough. https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/283

Booting a 486 From Floppy with the Most Up-to-Date Stable Linux Kernel

Back in August of 2019 I had a  Sing-Along Week contest on RetroBattlestations  with the challenge of playing a MIDI file synchronized to a speech synthesizer singing the lyrics. In my stash of cards I found an MQX-32M MIDI card (Roland MPU-401 clone) which I wanted to use for converting MIDI signals to interface to an Apple II+ with an Echo II speech synthesizer, but ended up using a laptop with a USB MIDI interface. The  Pizza Week contest  made me more interested in...