How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s(downtowndougbrown.com)

178 points by SerCe 2 years ago | 76 comments

More fun with Apple's internal tools: creating a PDS card(downtowndougbrown.com)

154 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 5 comments

Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs(downtowndougbrown.com)

68 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 3 comments

Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found(downtowndougbrown.com)

267 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 88 comments

The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory(downtowndougbrown.com)

488 points by zdw 1 year ago | 220 comments

Blog post investigating whether Apple installed a capacitor backwards at the factory in the Macintosh LC III and Performa 450-467, analyzing the circuit.

Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives(downtowndougbrown.com)

259 points by zdw 1 year ago | 177 comments

How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop(unterminated.com)

551 points by tfvlrue 2 years ago | 257 comments

A personal blog post describing how the author transferred files off a 1994 Apple PowerBook Duo 280c laptop.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit(behindthecode.ca)

51 points by paulgerhardt 23 days ago | 12 comments

A blog post on Behind The Code with Gerry about the Partner-N64 PC development kit used for creating Nintendo 64 games.

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5(blog.calif.io)

438 points by quadrige 5 months ago | 122 comments

Calif blog post describing the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 silicon that bypasses Memory Integrity Enforcement, built in five days.

Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2013)(timdbg.com)

329 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 114 comments

Blog post by a former WinDbg developer describing odd x86/amd64 trivia learned while writing the CPU emulator for Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging.

Boring is what we wanted(512pixels.net)

413 points by Amorymeltzer 1 year ago | 239 comments

A 512 Pixels blog post by Stephen Hackett reflecting on five years of Apple Silicon Macs from M1 to M5 and arguing steady, boring iteration is what users wanted.