Tag: architecture

3 posts tagged with "architecture".

The drive is not a USB stick

18th July 2026, 5:30pm · 10 min read

Planning USB floppy support for the console: four transport dialects from 1998, a FAT12 layer nobody ships, and why the first firmware milestone is nothing but reading descriptors.

Why I Didn't Replace the PICO-8 Runtime

11th July 2026, 1:27am · 10 min read

I sat down to decide whether the homegrown PICO-8 runtime should be replaced with an existing emulator. Twenty-one test cartridges, four codebase teardowns and two cross-compiles later, the answer was: keep everything, swap one organ.

A fantasy console that boots on a dev board

11th June 2026, 10:30am · 5 min read

Rusty Nail is a windowed pixel-desktop OS running bare-metal on a Nucleo-H753ZI. How it is put together, and why the display layer is an abstraction from day one.