Development notes, experiments and findings about BluMach, emulation and historical computers.https://palimbit.com/enhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/the-site-in-english-and-machine-pages/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/the-site-in-english-and-machine-pages/Palimbit now has an English version, and the BluMach machine pages can be read on the site in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTpalimbitnotepalimbitblumachlanguagescataloguertzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-6/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-6/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.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTblumachreleaseblumachcoremacholivettireleasealphartzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/baremach-on-the-raspberry-pi/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/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.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbaremachexperimentbaremachraspberry-pibare-metalemulationolivettirtzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/coremach-a-decoupled-engine/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/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.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcoremachexperimentcoremacharchitectureemulationolivettirtzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-5/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-5/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.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblumachreleaseblumacholivettireleasealphartzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-4/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-4/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.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblumachreleaseblumacholivettitrigemtriumph-adlerreleasealphartzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-3/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-3/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.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblumachreleaseblumacholivettitriumph-adleramstradreleasealphartzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/my-pcs-86-against-blumach/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/my-pcs-86-against-blumach/A real Olivetti PCS 86 and BluMach compared. On-the-fly speed switching was missing, and a few more bugs turned up.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblumachexperimentblumacholivettipcs868087benchmarksrtzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/the-speed-that-wasnt/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/the-speed-that-wasnt/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.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblumachresearchblumacholivettipcs286pcs286spcs386sxbiosrtzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-2/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/blumach-alpha-2/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.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblumachreleaseblumacholivettitoshibareleasealphartzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/first-release/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/first-release/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.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblumachreleaseblumacholivettireleasealphartzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/the-summer-machines/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/the-summer-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.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTblumachnoteblumacholivettiresearchrtzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/a-pcs-286-in-an-afternoon-with-ai/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/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.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTpalimbitnoteolivettirtzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/my-olivetti-pcs-286/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/my-olivetti-pcs-286/My seven years with an Olivetti PCS 286 in the 90s, and why I missed it decades later.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTpalimbitnoteolivettioriginrtzorhttps://palimbit.com/en/labbook/opening-the-notebook/https://palimbit.com/en/labbook/opening-the-notebook/This notebook is where I keep BluMach, CoreMach and BareMach in order, with what works and what doesn't.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTpalimbitnotepalimbitpreservationprocessrtzor