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I'm incredibly pleased to announce that the microcode for the Intel 80386 has been decoded.
It was a group effort by a bunch of talented people to extract and correct the physical bits, but the major work of decoding them was done by reenigne - you may know him from such incredible PC demos as 8088 MPH and Area 5150, as well as being the person who decoded the 8088 microcode previously.
Please, check out his writeup.
https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #microcode #reverseengineering
Two new features landed in Snow bleeding edge today:
- Floppy image writeback support. Snow will ask you before enabling this and you can change your mind, enable backups and some other things in the Options menu. Images can be automatically converted to MOOF if needed.
- Mount actual CDs in physical CD-ROM drives into your emulated Mac! This is (currently) Windows only, but nonetheless, very cool. Thanks to contributer beholdnec!
Wrote up a little blog post on the GlyphBlaster. Nothing you haven't seen if you've been following me, but just putting it out there.
https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/05/60fps-video-on-cga-glyphblaster.html
really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.
it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.
as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:
https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal
originally from robyn's site:
http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films
#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan
Thanks to contributer demik, Snow can now print from your emulated system to a PNG, using an emulated Apple LaserWriter IISC!
To try it, grab the bleeding edge build and check out https://docs.snowemu.com/manual/printing on how to set it up
The reverse engineering effort is written up here: https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/laserwriter-iisc-scsi-protocol-reversed-for-emulator-implementation.52165/
Snow 1.4.1 is out!
This release brings audio CD and cue/bin image support to Snow! Also added host/guest clipboard sharing, more options to tweak fast-forward mode, native file dialogs, improved mouse control in fullscreen, a new audio backend and many other ease of use features!
Full changelog and downloads: https://github.com/twvd/snow/releases/tag/v1.4.1
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