WORKING REPRODUCIBLE STACK IS NOW UPLOADED. Run CUDA-targeted Windows applications on AMD GPUs through ZLUDA + ROCm/HIP. A reproducible Windows CUDA compatibility setup built around ZLUDA + AMD HIP/ROCm. It is intended for CUDA-facing compute applications, including workloads that use … Read more
Giuseppe Salustri MSI After many difficulties raised by MSI, including shipping the computer to the service center in Poland, long waiting times, and reminders, Giuseppe finally got a refund of 40 euros (net of shipping costs, absurdly charged to the … Read more
It seems that no matter what you do, somebody will get offended. Every Windows 95 box has an anti-piracy hologram on the side. The photographer chose his infant son as his model, since the human face is very hard to … Read more
Mac’s operating system has a peculiar way to install apps. An app typically arrives in a file with a .dmg extension (it stands for “disk image”; my brain always reads it as “damage”), which upon double clicking becomes a kind … Read more
As I mentioned earlier, in April 2026, the FBI caught an alleged Scattered Spider member. The guy was hiding his traffic behind a VPN, with IPs across three different countries. And guess what? It wasn’t a wrong move that gave … Read more
As you might know, I’m involved a bit in the OpenVMS community and the Alpha emulation side via AXPBox. AXPBox (github) is a fork of the es40 alpha emulator by Camiel Vanderhoeven (who is now Chief Architect at VSI, the … Read more
A real, windowed Windows CE desktop — running on a Sega Dreamcast. The Dreamcast shipped a stripped-down Windows CE 2.12 that retail games booted into and never exposed. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition takes that same on-disc CE runtime and turns … Read more
blog – git – desktop – contact 2026-06-20 (I don’t plan on doing lots more of these Windows UI blog posts. I just came across this and found it interesting. Besides, it’s super hot where I live and I can’t … Read more
blog – git – desktop – contact 2026-06-16 I liked the UIs of the entire era from 3.0 to 2000, really. I’m mostly using Windows 2000 as an example here because it runs so well in QEMU/KVM and that allows … Read more
Jun 1, 2026 GOG is great. I bought a few old games from them: SimCity 2000, Theme Hospital, Syndicate Plus. And by old games, I mean games from my childhood that still play like a good game, and not like … Read more