Palimbit · Note
The site in English, and machine pages in five languages
Palimbit now has an English version, and the BluMach machine pages can be read on the site in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.
palimbit@lab:~$ cat ~/labbook/index
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Palimbit Labbook
Where I write down what I try, what works and what doesn't.
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BluMach · Release
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.6: the Olivetti M10, the first machine on CoreMach
The sixth BluMach alpha brings the Olivetti M10, the first machine that isn't a PC and the first that runs on the CoreMach engine. Machine pages also get photos, and the packages are now built on GitHub.
All notes, in reading order
001
Opening the notebook
This notebook is where I keep BluMach, CoreMach and BareMach in order, with what works and what doesn't.
002
My Olivetti PCS 286
My seven years with an Olivetti PCS 286 in the 90s, and why I missed it decades later.
003
A PCS 286 in an afternoon, with AI
A half-Frankenstein PCS 286 in one afternoon, with MiniMax and 86Box. Then came more than twenty machines and a whole summer of forums.
004
The summer madness: the machines
How I went from one PCS 286 to more than twenty emulated machines in a single summer, and the system of skills that made it possible.
005
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.1: the first version you can try
The first public release of BluMach, with just the Olivetti PCS 86, PCS 286 and PCS 386SX. What works, what doesn't and how to try it.
006
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.2: the Olivetti M15 and the Toshiba T series arrive
The second BluMach alpha adds the Olivetti M15 and M15 Plus and the Toshiba T3200, T5100 and T5200, all experimental. What it includes, what has been checked and what's missing.
007
The speed that wasn't: what the Olivetti PCS BIOSes hide
The 12/12 in the PCS 286 Setup isn't the processor speed. Following that lead turned up a password jumper that wiped the configuration on every boot, a floppy drive that could only be external and hidden options in the BIOS.
008
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.3: new machines, and the PCS Setup finally saves
The third BluMach alpha adds new machines, among them the PCS 286/S and the Triumph-Adler Dario, and fixes the Olivetti PCS Setup and the PCS 86's speed.
009
My PCS 86 against BluMach: measure before you tune
A real Olivetti PCS 86 and BluMach compared. On-the-fly speed switching was missing, and a few more bugs turned up.
010
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.4: the TriGem SX386M and more Olivetti M-series machines
The fourth BluMach alpha adds the TriGem SX386M and the Olivetti M250, M250 E, M280 and M380, Olivetti's GO disk controllers and several fixes found while studying their BIOSes.
011
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.5: the M300 series, the 1992 PCS machines and the M290 SP
The fifth BluMach alpha adds Olivetti's M300 series, the PCS 11, 33 and 46/C and the M290 SP, and lets you create four machines still in development so I can get results back.
012
Failed attempt: BareMach on the Raspberry Pi
Two attempts at bringing a PC emulator to a Raspberry Pi with no operating system. It boots now, but it's still slow.
013
CoreMach: a decoupled engine
It started as a piece of BareMach, ended up as a project of its own, and will be used for machines that aren't x86.
014
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.6: the Olivetti M10, the first machine on CoreMach
The sixth BluMach alpha brings the Olivetti M10, the first machine that isn't a PC and the first that runs on the CoreMach engine. Machine pages also get photos, and the packages are now built on GitHub.
015
The site in English, and machine pages in five languages
Palimbit now has an English version, and the BluMach machine pages can be read on the site in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.