Tag: Python

Recovering data tapes the hard way: CROOK OS

The awesome folks over at Hackaday (sponsors of VCF East) linked to a great article by a collection of Polish computer archivists and museums. One of them was working on an emulator for the Polish MERA-400 computer – but the only known copy of the machine’s OS was locked on 9-track tapes. The CROOK operating system was supposedly stored on…

Sega Dreamcast Emulation/Raspberry Pi 2

[youtube l5PJXMrSTDc#t=137 nolink] With the recent release of the enhanced Raspberry Pi, it was only a matter of time before gamers pushed the pocket-sized computer to its limits. Taking the source code from the popular emulator Reicast, talented developers have managed to get Sega Dreamcast classics up and running on the Raspberry Pi 2. While there’s still plenty of work…