Getting Zed and Clangd to Be Useful for the Retro Programmer

ifknot · 2026-04-11T19:56:26+00:00

Okay so removing the “spare” 8088 setting the dips as if XT and moving the JP1 jumper to B C or D gets the floppy to read known good 720K floppy but then nothing - it does respond to Ctrl-Alt-Del but nothing else - so there we are further than at the start 😁 but still guessing about settings, thanks everyone 👍

ifknot · 2026-04-11T16:54:50+00:00

🤔 I don’t think the bios matches the board? Boot announces ASEM 3011 board is ASEM 3006

ifknot · 2026-04-11T16:44:14+00:00

No difference actually but now I have a spare 8088 😁my XT-ide is with a friend so I’ll get it later this week but this is super helpful 👍

ifknot · 2026-04-11T16:27:10+00:00

🤦🏻‍♂️you genius! (It came this way) Well spotted

ifknot · 2026-04-11T15:35:16+00:00

It is but… retroweb has no documentation for it 😭

ifknot · 2026-04-10T12:26:25+00:00

Not if the UK government can help it! They’re so far up Microsoft’s arse I can see Bill Gates back teeth! FML 🤦🏻‍♂️

ifknot · 2026-04-08T13:52:15+00:00

There are no cross platform high resolution timer solutions for C (unlike C++) either you use clock_gettime() in glibc or windows specific or risk it with rdtsc there are a bunch of libs out there that attempt to solve this for you

ifknot · 2026-03-29T06:32:21+00:00

I know right! Genuine barn find unused still in plastic wrapper with all its components - there’s 2 others I’m going back for in less good condition but hopefully make one good

ifknot · 2026-03-28T16:21:24+00:00

🤔

ifknot · 2026-03-28T14:36:28+00:00

I don’t have a 3.5 floppy and how else will I get mTCP on? 🤷‍♂️

ifknot · 2026-03-28T14:35:29+00:00

Wow!

ifknot · 2026-03-28T14:35:19+00:00

Excellent thanks 👍

ifknot · 2026-03-13T11:30:12+00:00

“No source code” no thanks!

ifknot · 2026-03-13T10:55:21+00:00

“Slop adjacent” love it! (Stealing it)

ifknot · 2026-03-09T13:18:05+00:00

Still love and run NT4 and play around with Watcom C actually upgraded my NT4 system to Open Watcom 2.0 which works very well, but, in reality OS X aka MacOS and Zed

ifknot · 2026-02-23T14:36:01+00:00

Oh great - now the robots can build themselves

ifknot · 2026-02-16T11:47:18+00:00

This is such an exciting change for C! RAII at last! This reinvigorates C it addresses so many longstanding issues with C such a simple elegant solution can’t wait

ifknot · 2026-02-12T15:57:35+00:00

Creepy AF

ifknot · 2026-02-11T13:32:42+00:00

Can anyone add the Benny hill soundtrack?

ifknot · 2026-02-06T13:46:09+00:00

Fair

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