Experiments on akos.ma

Ubuntu 5.10 on QEMU

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Following the celebration of my 20 years with Linux, I wanted to recreate the moment I installed Ubuntu “Breezy Badger” 5.10 for the first time, and with QEMU it was quite easy to do on my modern Fedora 44 environment of 2026.

Conway in Haskell

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200

At this point it’s becoming increasingly clear that I can ask Cursor to read any of the implementations of my Conway project and translate that into any other programming language that I want; this is what I’ve done last year with NASM, Scala, and Bash, and this year with Haskell.

How To Connect Boatswain to OBS Studio

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

I’ve recently got myself an Elgato Stream Deck, and although it doesn’t natively support Linux, there’s a nice app called Boatswain that does the trick (not to be confused with the OCI container monitoring app of the same name).

Conway in NASM

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

And here we go again with vibe coding: this time with Claude, I translated the Turbo Pascal version of Conway into Netwide Assembler or NASM for Linux 64-bit.

Conway in Borland Delphi

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Yet another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time in good old Borland Delphi 1.0 (which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary!) from 1995, running on Windows 3.1, and as usual you can find the source code on my GitLab account.

Conway in Scala

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Another week, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time in Scala, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.

Conway in Bash

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I’ve added a new version to my venerable Polyglot Conway project, this time as a good old Bash script, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.

Conway in C89

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Another year, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time for C89, also known as “ANSI C”, targeting quite a few compilers of the early 1990s, and some others from our more recent times.

Opening Microsoft Access Databases on Linux

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0200

In the past few months I’ve been writing about my software archeology experiments, including how to convert old HTML code from 1999 to run in today’s browsers, how to run Macromedia Flash movies with Ruffle, or even how to run Java applets now that they aren’t supported anymore.

Conway in Rexx, Cobol, and Fortran

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Here’s more dabbling in programming languages to re-create my venerable interpretation of Conway’s Game of Life, this time using three stereotypical languages of the IBM galaxy: the Rexx scripting language, good old COBOL, and Fortran 95.