Dmitry Brant
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Timeline of the far future
One of my favorite articles on Wikipedia is called Timeline of the far future. The entire article is a gigantic table of events that are predicted to occur at various points in the future, based on our current understanding of everything including the environment, geology,…
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Relativity Park: taming the speed of light
Recently I finished building another thing™ that’s been on my mind for a long time. It’s a simulation of a simple real-world environment, except for one important difference: the speed of light in this environment is extremely slowed down to exactly 5 kilometers per hour, a…
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Return to Zork: now moddable!
One of my favorite DOS games from the mid-1990s was Return to Zork. It was a bold departure from the purely text-based Zork games of old, with very nice VGA graphics and a point-and-click interface for interacting with the game’s world. My warm sentiment was not quite shared by…
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Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive
For my next trick frivolous use of LLMs, I’m building an emulated tape drive! TLDR: The 86Box emulator now allows you to emulate a QIC-117 tape drive connected to the floppy controller, or to a parallel port, and make “backups” to virtual tape images using actual DOS and early…
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Claude × retrocomputing: emulating the TC2000 supercomputer
A few years ago I received a package of tapes that came from a TC2000 system, which was a supercomputer from the late 1980s built by a company called BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman). The data on these tapes was recovered without any issues, and it turned out to be a minor…