001
The summer madness: the machines
How I went from one PCS 286 to more than twenty emulated machines in a single summer, and the system of skills that made it possible.
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BluMach
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002
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.1: the first version you can try
The first public release of BluMach, with just the Olivetti PCS 86, PCS 286 and PCS 386SX. What works, what doesn't and how to try it.
003
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.2: the Olivetti M15 and the Toshiba T series arrive
The second BluMach alpha adds the Olivetti M15 and M15 Plus and the Toshiba T3200, T5100 and T5200, all experimental. What it includes, what has been checked and what's missing.
004
The speed that wasn't: what the Olivetti PCS BIOSes hide
The 12/12 in the PCS 286 Setup isn't the processor speed. Following that lead turned up a password jumper that wiped the configuration on every boot, a floppy drive that could only be external and hidden options in the BIOS.
005
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.3: new machines, and the PCS Setup finally saves
The third BluMach alpha adds new machines, among them the PCS 286/S and the Triumph-Adler Dario, and fixes the Olivetti PCS Setup and the PCS 86's speed.
006
My PCS 86 against BluMach: measure before you tune
A real Olivetti PCS 86 and BluMach compared. On-the-fly speed switching was missing, and a few more bugs turned up.
007
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.4: the TriGem SX386M and more Olivetti M-series machines
The fourth BluMach alpha adds the TriGem SX386M and the Olivetti M250, M250 E, M280 and M380, Olivetti's GO disk controllers and several fixes found while studying their BIOSes.
008
BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.5: the M300 series, the 1992 PCS machines and the M290 SP
The fifth BluMach alpha adds Olivetti's M300 series, the PCS 11, 33 and 46/C and the M290 SP, and lets you create four machines still in development so I can get results back.
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BluMach 0.1.0-alpha.6: the Olivetti M10, the first machine on CoreMach
The sixth BluMach alpha brings the Olivetti M10, the first machine that isn't a PC and the first that runs on the CoreMach engine. Machine pages also get photos, and the packages are now built on GitHub.