Dmitry Brant

One of my favorite articles on Wikipedia is called Timeline of the far future.

Recently I finished building another thing that’s been on my mind for a long time.

One of my favorite DOS games from the mid-1990s was Return to Zork.

For my next trick frivolous use of LLMs, I’m building an emulated tape drive!

A few years ago I received a package of tapes that came from a TC2000 system, which was a supercomputer from the late 1980s built by a company called BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman).

My old Kindles With Amazon having ended support for many older-generation Kindle devices, I thought I’d go back and make sure that my existing Kindles will still be usable for the foreseeable future.

That’s right — this little device is what stood between me and the ability to run an even older piece of software that I recently unearthed during an expedition of software archaeology.

What do I do with old Android phones that I’d like to keep around for testing purposes, while no longer worrying about the long-term fate of the lithium battery inside them?

As a bit of background, one of my hobbies is helping people recover data from old tape cartridges, such as QIC-80 tapes, which were a rather popular backup medium in the 1990s among individuals, small businesses, BBS operators, and the like.

Up until this point, DiskDigger has been built for the .NET Framework, with a user interface that uses Windows Forms.

In the course of my hobby of restoring old computers, I sometimes come across a laptop that has a broken floppy drive.

Time to mention some great updates in the newest versions of DiskDigger, as well as its cousin FileSystemAnalyzer, which is my “internal” tool for tinkering with various file systems.