New blog post:

Emulating old OS X versions with QEMU
http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/03/emulating-old-os-x-versions-with-qemu/

#blogging #blog #osx #retrocomputing

🪨 Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh 🛠️

It wasn't the first desktop publishing app, but it was the first of importance. I use it to rebuild the 40-year defunct #OMNI Magazine, resurrect a 40-year defunct software rivalry, and examine how the effects of the publishing revolution trickled through the public sector.

This post comes with a free gift!

#retrocomputing #mac #pagemaker

https://stonetools.ghost.io/pagemaker-mac

In today's episode of "Can It Run Doom": DNS fucking TXT records.

Some absolute madlad (cough Adam Rice cough) compressed the entire shareware DOOM WAD, split it into around 1,964 chunks, shoved them into Cloudflare TXT records, and wrote a PowerShell script that reassembles and runs the whole goddamn game from DNS queries alone. Nothing touches disk. The DLLs are in DNS. THE FUCKING DLLS ARE IN DNS.

RFC 1035 was written in 1987. Those engineers are spinning in their graves fast enough to generate municipal power.

Bonus: this is a fully functional globally-distributed covert data exfil channel that your NGFW will never fucking see if you're not doing deep DNS inspection. Sleep well.

blog: https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

repo: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns

Also lmao @ every blue team that has never once looked at their DNS query volume. How's that DLP policy working out for you.

It was always DNS.

#infosec #dns #doom #itisalwaysdns

"You know why I don’t trust third parties? Because they only show up every four years. Like clockwork. When politics is at its sexiest."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-trust-third-parties

This is the work of a seasoned emulator developer, but still an impressive feat.

A 486-class PC emulator....

...in Visual Basic 6. And yes, you can run Visual Basic in it.

https://github.com/mikechambers84/BasicBox

#retrocomputing #emulation

super fascinated that this person thinks basic-ahh commercial studio photography was “CGI graphics”

in the comments, they are arguing to the death that “yes, CGI was that good in the 90’s” and “it can’t be a photo because the lighting is too consistent”

is this what it feels like to be old

Hundreds of hours and thousands of words to understand and fix a crappy Bonjour implementation. This was a helluva rabbit hole.

If you have a Canon printer that's constantly going “Offline”, you’ll want to read this:

https://furbo.org/2026/03/14/your-mac-and-a-canon-printer/