This video about the Motorola 68060 (then Coldfire) is very interesting. I did not know that most of the design was done by a startup that Motorola then acquired.
A gentle introduction to chip design, with a reminder that CISC vs RISC did not make much sense even back then, despite all the flame wars.
As a PC user I did not learn about the 060 until much later. It appears to have been quite a competent chip 🙂
Is there an equivalent of DOS for 68K? In thinking about this a bit—considering 68K workstations like Mac, Atari ST, Tektronix 4404—i came to realise that i was probably a bit harsh on DOS (i grew up very much in the DOS period, but never had a DOS machine). Like, i love command line, and DOS is a command line available on a very broad range of machines, all x86 based (right?). Was there any sort of semi-portable command line system that was available on any sort of non-x86 architecture? (i'm thinking small, not like UNIX which could run on 68K, or MVS/TSO which ran on IBM mainframes).
[edit: contenders are CP/M-68K (which isn't vaporware), OS-9, and maybe Human68K]
Got the first alpha of BomberTalk working - a networked Bomberman clone for Classic Mac.
Played a game across a Mac SE (1987), a Performa 6200 (1994), and a Performa 6400 (1995). One C89 codebase, three builds, three machines on the same LAN.
No sprites yet, just coloured blocks. But the networking works - all three find each other and play in sync.
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BomberTalk Alpha https://matthewdeaves.com/blog/2026-04-06-bombertalk-alpha/
16-bit/early-32-bit was my favorite era. (Basically, the #68k era ;)
Computers were just becoming capable, but not too big for their britches.
Free to a good home: A nine-page booklet HyperCard Version 1.2 Update, a single-page addendum to the Macintosh System Software User's Guide, Version 6.0, and the packing list from a Mac Plus, dated 1988. 
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｢ NCR Corporation, in a move to capture an increasing share of the OEM computer market, has announced a new small computer based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. The 16-bit multiuser and multitasking computer is called the Tower 1632. It runs an operating system derived from UNIX III and provides data storage with fixed Winchester disk drives ｣
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ncr-tower-1632
Usagi’s New Computer is a Gas!
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/usagis-new-computer-is-a-gas/
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