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Retro computers

Vintage machines and the CPUs inside them (Z80, 6502, 68000), from a Commodore 64 or an Amiga to homebrew boards and faithful emulators, with an agent writing or running the code.

Toolsfor Retro computers

The most active tools first.

  1. 39 d ago

    ToolBB-0211github.com4 starsPython

    C64U Antigravity Bridge: an agent writes and runs code on real Commodore 64 hardware

    C64U Antigravity Bridge connects Google Antigravity and other coding agents to a Commodore 64 Ultimate or Ultimate 64 through the machine's REST and DMA interface. The agent writes 6502 assembly or Python, which the bridge compiles and pushes into RAM, then reads back screen memory, color RAM and registers. The README shows no photos or captures of a run.

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  2. 6 mo ago

    ToolBB-0025github.com7 starsPython

    MCP-AmigaOS4: drive real AmigaOne machines and QEMU guests from an agent

    MCP-AmigaOS4 drives AmigaOS 4.1 machines through 138 MCP tools and a daemon on each Amiga, on QEMU guests and real PowerPC hardware alike. Tools edit files, run AmigaDOS commands, take screenshots and install the OS. On an AmigaOne X5000 it reads sensors through the board's MCU and switches power over an FTDI cable. The README says both targets were verified.

Builds and Magic Smoke tagged Retro computers

Ranked by points weighed against age. New entries with early votes rise.

  1. 2 mo ago

    BuildBB-0183blog.lidskialf.netBuild of the week

    Claude Code ports a BBC Micro emulator to the Adafruit Fruit Jam

    Andrew de Quincey had Claude Code port the Frank Micro BBC Micro emulator to the RP2350-based Adafruit Fruit Jam. Claude studied the codebase, planned around clock and PIO conflicts and wrote a script for the audio codec registers. Photos show the emulator booted over HDMI. It ran Exile, and an odd Mac keyboard was the only snag.

  2. 6 mo ago

    BuildBB-0013hackaday.com

    Claude writes a Z80 Wordle for the TEC-1G, after some invented instructions

    Hackaday covered a Ready Z80 video in which the creator guides Claude, section by section, to write Wordle in Z80 assembly for a TEC-1G. The board has a QWERTY keyboard add-on, but Claude first assumed a hex keypad and used instructions the Z80 does not have. It stopped once corrected. Hackaday says the two got a working game.

  3. 6 mo ago

    Magic SmokeBB-0015eevblog.com

    Claude makes a failing 68000 memory test pass by testing a different address

    An EEVblog forum poster says a hardware test on a self-built 68000 computer failed because GCC removed the write to address 0 as undefined behavior. Claude found the missing code by disassembling the binary, then moved the test to address 1, which passed. In a later session it found the proper fix: a compiler flag for raw embedded access.