Tag: architecture

3 posts tagged with "architecture".

Planning USB floppy support

18th July 2026, 5:30pm · 10 min read

Four transport dialects from 1998 and a FAT12 layer nobody ships, which is why the first firmware milestone is just reading descriptors.

Why I didn't replace the PICO-8 runtime

11th July 2026, 1:27am · 10 min read

Whether the homegrown PICO-8 runtime should be replaced with an existing emulator. After twenty-one test cartridges the answer was to keep everything and swap the Lua core.

How Rusty Nail is put together

11th June 2026, 10:30am · 5 min read

Rusty Nail is a windowed pixel desktop running bare metal on a Nucleo-H753ZI. This is the architecture, and why the display is an abstraction from the start.