Tyler August

Articles by Tyler August

Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal On Raspberry Pi - Hackaday

Technology August 24, 2026

There’s no actual data, but if we had to guess the least-favourite Disney movie of former Amiga owners would have to be Frozen, because none of them will ever be able to β€œLet it Go”. The Amiga-d...

Recycling Laptops And IMacs Makes PC Building Fun And Affordable Again - Hackaday

Technology July 21, 2026

Building a PC used to be a fun adventure β€” what’s the latest, what’s the greatest, what can I afford? Well, that last question seems to have taken over and sucked all the fun out for a lot of pe...

Disk Polishing Goes Open Source - Hackaday

Technology July 5, 2026

Optical media is great β€” it’s pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if β€œThat’ll buff out” is very often true when it comes to disks. well cared for. If not wel...

Can Claude Write Z80 Assembly Code? - Hackaday

Technology April 20, 2026

Betteridge’s law applies, but with help and guidance by a human who knows his stuff, [Ready Z80] was able to get a functioning game of Wordle out of the French-named LLM, which is more than we expec...

Who Had β€œNew OS For The Z80” On Their 2026 Bingo Card? - Hackaday

Technology April 14, 2026

Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn’t need another operating system, but [Scott Baker] obviously disagrees. He has come up with a brand new, from scratch OS called NostOS for the Z80-based RC2014...

Reviving ReBoot With A Tape Deck Repair - Hackaday

Technology January 6, 2026

Great job! D1 VTRs are indeed some of the most difficult video tape machines to maintain in working order nowadays, so congrats to them! Finding brand new video drum is an absolute miracle.I have wiοΏ½...

All Projections Suck, So Play Risk On A Globe Instead - Hackaday

Technology January 1, 2026

The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection– maybe you like the Watterman Butterfly, but your cousin really digs Gall-Peter...

Hardware Store Marauder’s Map Is Clarkian Magic - Hackaday

Technology December 22, 2025

The β€œMarauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to be β€” we have tec...

Emulate ROMs At 12MHz With Pico2 PIO - Hackaday

Technology December 8, 2025

Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the ROMs required to make a retrocomputer run. Even worse, what if you’re rolling your own firmware? Period-appropriate EPROMs and their programmers aren’t...