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  1. Dracula rises again: my 1980 text adventure, rebuilt from the EXE

    9 min #retro #basic #text-adventure #reverse-engineering

    Someone who played my Dutch text adventure Dracula as a child reverse-engineered it. The same night I got the BASIC source back from the old EXE with Claude, and ported it to C.

  2. Back to Unix V6, on a PiDP-11/70 with my own VT100 and LA120

    6 min #retro #pdp-11 #unix

    I built a PiDP-11/70, hooked up a real VT100 and LA120 over USB-serial, and patched the V6 kernel until backspace behaved.

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