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Amiga

Jan 24, 2021 Loading a modern image on an Amiga 500

Apple

Jan 7, 2025 Mac Mini G4 - The best « classic » Macintosh for retro-gaming?
Jul 14, 2024 iPhone 15 Pro for "serious" photography
Oct 31, 2023 How software AV1 video decoding affects battery consumption on Macbook Pro
Mar 12, 2023 Apple M2 Pro vs AMD 3950X

Apple II

Dec 5, 2022 Sometimes, emulation is not enough
Jan 15, 2020 Random level generation on Apple II
Jun 1, 2019 Apple II ProDOS boot sequence
Dec 31, 2018 Rogue-like on Apple II: Raycasting a line of sight
Oct 28, 2018 An HIRES tile engine for the Apple II
Feb 4, 2017 A Game of Life
Jan 20, 2017 Making the Apple II sing
Dec 14, 2016 HIRES Graphics on Apple II
Oct 9, 2016 Coding in Assembly for an Apple II
Sep 17, 2016 Coding in C for an 8 bit 6502 CPU
Jun 8, 2016 Apple IIe: Fabrication d'un câble pour Le Chat Mauve
Jun 6, 2016 Apple IIe: réparation de l'alimentation

Articles en Français

Jun 8, 2016 Apple IIe: Fabrication d'un câble pour Le Chat Mauve
Jun 6, 2016 Apple IIe: réparation de l'alimentation

Homebrew

Dec 5, 2022 Sometimes, emulation is not enough
Jan 15, 2020 Random level generation on Apple II
Dec 31, 2018 Rogue-like on Apple II: Raycasting a line of sight
Oct 28, 2018 An HIRES tile engine for the Apple II
Feb 4, 2017 A Game of Life

MS-DOS

Feb 26, 2022 Timing on the PC family under DOS
Oct 28, 2021 Rendering 3D animations on early PCs from the 90s
Mar 9, 2018 The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS
Jan 8, 2018 Building a gaming PC as in 1993

Microsoft

Sep 11, 2024 Preserving an Original Xbox
Jan 12, 2023 Inside Windows 3
Mar 9, 2018 The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS

Misc

Jul 14, 2024 iPhone 15 Pro for "serious" photography
Oct 31, 2023 How software AV1 video decoding affects battery consumption on Macbook Pro
Mar 12, 2023 Apple M2 Pro vs AMD 3950X
Oct 28, 2021 Rendering 3D animations on early PCs from the 90s
Dec 31, 2020 Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll
Sep 5, 2020 Archiving on cold storage
Dec 1, 2019 Retro Gaming Convention
Apr 4, 2017 Of the importance of measuring the homogeneity when testing a monitor
Aug 17, 2016 Shadow and the future of Cloud Computing
Sep 23, 2015 How to Sync Lightroom between two computers
Jan 9, 2014 Hosting a private VoIP server on a Raspberry Pi

Programming

Dec 5, 2022 Sometimes, emulation is not enough
Feb 26, 2022 Timing on the PC family under DOS
Sep 5, 2020 Archiving on cold storage
Jan 15, 2020 Random level generation on Apple II
Dec 31, 2018 Rogue-like on Apple II: Raycasting a line of sight
Oct 28, 2018 An HIRES tile engine for the Apple II
Aug 10, 2017 Async tasks in C++
Feb 4, 2017 A Game of Life
Jan 20, 2017 Making the Apple II sing
Dec 14, 2016 HIRES Graphics on Apple II
Oct 9, 2016 Coding in Assembly for an Apple II
Sep 17, 2016 Coding in C for an 8 bit 6502 CPU
Apr 11, 2016 A very simple threading library
Apr 3, 2016 Wrapping std::deque to make it thread safe
Jun 29, 2013 Yet Another Password Generator
May 1, 2013 Creating and uploading a new Debian/Ubuntu package from a Qt project

Raspberry Pi

Jan 9, 2014 Hosting a private VoIP server on a Raspberry Pi

Retro-computing

Nov 2, 2025 RGC 2025
Aug 6, 2025 Yes, the SEGA Saturn was designed with 3D in mind
Jan 7, 2025 Mac Mini G4 - The best « classic » Macintosh for retro-gaming?
Sep 11, 2024 Preserving an Original Xbox
Sep 2, 2023 Intel 80386, a revolutionary CPU
Jan 12, 2023 Inside Windows 3
Dec 5, 2022 Sometimes, emulation is not enough
Feb 26, 2022 Timing on the PC family under DOS
Oct 28, 2021 Rendering 3D animations on early PCs from the 90s
Jan 24, 2021 Loading a modern image on an Amiga 500
Jan 15, 2020 Random level generation on Apple II
Dec 1, 2019 Retro Gaming Convention
Jun 1, 2019 Apple II ProDOS boot sequence
Dec 31, 2018 Rogue-like on Apple II: Raycasting a line of sight
Oct 28, 2018 An HIRES tile engine for the Apple II
Mar 9, 2018 The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS
Jan 8, 2018 Building a gaming PC as in 1993
Feb 4, 2017 A Game of Life
Jan 20, 2017 Making the Apple II sing
Dec 14, 2016 HIRES Graphics on Apple II
Oct 9, 2016 Coding in Assembly for an Apple II
Sep 17, 2016 Coding in C for an 8 bit 6502 CPU
Jun 8, 2016 Apple IIe: Fabrication d'un câble pour Le Chat Mauve
Jun 6, 2016 Apple IIe: réparation de l'alimentation

Windows

Sep 2, 2023 Intel 80386, a revolutionary CPU
Jan 12, 2023 Inside Windows 3