BBC Micro

Matt Beton trained a tiny Mamba-based autoregressive language model and built an inference engine to run it on the MOS 6502, an 8-bit processor from 1975 with 32KB RAM, which powered the BBC Micro and…

A developer successfully ran an autoregressive language model on a 1975 MOS 6502 8-bit processor inside a BBC Micro, using BitNet ternary quantization to fit 13KB of model weights and 9KB of inference…

Developer and writer James Friend asked Claude Code to recreate the 1986 game Thrust in the browser, but the AI produced unplayable slop that failed to capture the original's physics and feel. Friend …