Readit NewsAgain being picky, in theory their integrated graphics are a "success" in that they sell well, but that's because vendors get them for free with the CPU and so don't have to go through the expense of adding a discrete one.
https://bitsavers.org/components/intel/8275/1979_8275.pdf
Used on Intel made iSBX270 video board http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/iSBC/143444-001_iSBX_270_... for use in Intel iSBX systems.
"How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m11218xo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-in...
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-accidentally-...
or maybe VPN using Canadian secessionist from Thailand?
https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2025/12/04/rage-or-real-exp...
For Europeans ID is not as big of a deal as losing democracy thru foreign influence manipulating public opinion on a massive scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del#Princeton,_Ein...
>Vyriy drone recently assembled its first prototype FPV copter entirely from Ukrainian components.
(Now, I would have preferred a Lattice ICE40 FPGA as opposed to the Xilinx Spartan II XC2S100 FPGA, simply because the ICE40 toolchain is entirely open source (https://prjicestorm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) but that's a very minor (less than 1%) extremely small "nitpick" -- on what should be praised and lauded as some truly great work!)
Anyway, to repeat, I absolutely love it!
Upvoted and favorited!
Well done!
We are in sync! I also fell in love with this project after seeing it on Hackaday. At first I was just impressed, but the more I dug in (pcb, vhdl) the more I couldnt stop obsessing over it :) Its super well documented, well structured and easy to follow. True hello world of building a 386/486 chipset. My HaD comment from 3 weeks ago:
HaD blog entry doesnt do justice to this AMAZING project. Author implemented:
Intel 386/486 CPU bus handling
ISA bus handling
reused vintage 486 CPU
reused vintage 8259 PIT (timer)
reused vintage 8254 PIC (interrupts)
Want to hear something wild – this was maniek86s first 4 layer board ever :o Talk about jumping into deep water.
From reading maniek86 blog it all started when he got scammed buying Chinese no name ISA/PCI Post Code analyzer card that didnt really support ISA side https://maniek86.xyz/pl/blog.php?p=31 :
"It turned out that ISA part of the card was a scam – it could only measure voltages and show CLK, RDY, and reset signals. I was disappointed. I had to repair the motherboard without the help of POST codes. Eventually, I managed to fix it, but the card didn’t meet my expectations. That’s when I came up with the idea of building my own card instead of buying another one."
And so he did, just like Bender with blackjack and all! End result is https://maniek86.xyz/projects.php?p=41 https://github.com/maniekx86/isa_debug_post_card https://github.com/maniekx86/isa_debug_post_card_cpld_source deserving its own HaD entry. To make Post Code card maniek86 had to:
- learn how ISA bus works
- learn VHDL
- do digital archeology to dig up 17 year old Xilinx ISE that could support obsolete XC95144XL 5Volt CPLD
- learn about output buffers the hard way by frying first XC95144XL driving LEDd directly, didnt we all? :)
This Post Code analyzer card led directly to creation of M8SBC. What a hacking tour the force. I absolutely love it.
Here is a prototype https://imgur.com/gallery/486-homebrew-computer-lsUiWdw
The most impressive part of this build is that maniek86 (Piotr Grzesik) is still in High School (electronics oriented CTE).
https://imgur.com/gallery/486-homebrew-computer-lsUiWdw#dIBt...
Looks like something that shouldnt work at all :)