vintage-computing

Earn RTC crypto by contributing to the RustChain ecosystem. Bounties from 1-150 RTC. Star, code, write tutorials, find bugs.

Legend of Elya — N64 game with a real 6.36M-parameter ternary transformer on the VR4300 MIPS III CPU. Zelda-style dungeon, AI NPCs, byte-level inference at 1.23 tok/s scalar / 2.19 tok/s on the RSP overlay (measured under ares, never on silicon). Built with libdragon.

llama.cpp optimizations for IBM POWER8: vec_perm non-bijunctive collapse, PSE hardware entropy, DCBT prefetch. Sovereign inference. Part of the Proof of Physical AI stack.

Thought leadership white paper on Proof-of-Antiquity consensus and vintage hardware preservation

Local LLM agent for vintage Mac hardware. Built on a 2013 Mac Pro trashcan with dual AMD FirePro D500s. Elyan Labs.

WORLD FIRST: llama.cpp for Mac OS X Tiger & Leopard on PowerPC G4/G5

Digital archaeology skill for cataloging rare hardware, archiving software assets, and bridging to Beacon agent identities and RustChain Proof-of-Antiquity attestations. Based on Echoes of the Silicon Age research.

ZX Spectrum bitmap font tools.

RustChain for classic AmigaOS (m68k): miner, SDK, tools, bootable AROS distro, amiports package manager, micro-JVM

Edge MoE inference on 1988 silicon: an integer-only ternary transformer live on a Sega Genesis 68000 — memory-mapped cartridge ROM makes expert activation free. Zero-cost expert routing, measured.

NeoBleeper is the world's first AI-enabled tune creation software using the system speaker (aka PC Speaker) on the motherboard, inspired by the Bleeper Music Maker software by Robbi-985 (aka SomethingUnreal).

A 1994-style AppleTalk render farm of emulated Macs in Docker, driven by a patched Basilisk II with an ADB-layer control server

AmigaTools by Elyan Labs: modern apps for classic 68k AmigaOS. Gemini browser, Mastodon and Nostr clients, an MCP server, a Claude client, Lua, the narrator voice, and the Boing Ball. Native C, cross-compiled for m68k.

Single-file C89 RustChain miner for vintage x86 (486/Pentium/Pentium II-III/K6) on old Linux kernels. Written for a Sun Cobalt Qube 3 on its stock 2001 Cobalt Linux image.

Ultra-low-power edge inference at its limit: a ternary transformer LLM on the NES 1.79 MHz 6502. 8-bit accumulator, exact cycle counts, 0.634 s/token, verified token-exact against a host reference.

TinyML quantization result: on the SNES 65816, ternary beats int8 by 2.02x despite a free hardware multiply — because the cost is operand traffic, not arithmetic. A transformer LLM on 1990 silicon.

Headless emulation of classic dot-matrix printers — Apple ImageWriter I/II, Apple DMP and Epson FX-80. Feed it the byte stream, get back a timed stream of dot strikes and paper feeds. No DOM, no dependencies.

Run Netscape Communicator 4.8 natively on modern Linux.

Community leaderboard: real AI inference on vintage and exotic hardware. Prove it or it didn't happen.

Beehive Bit Bunker Bundles: experiments in vintage computing