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A hardware tinkerer who created the Soggy-1000, a clone of Sega's SG-1000 console compatible with its optional keyboard, found Sega's built-in BASIC too limiting for development work. They are now writing their own Forth implementation to serve as a self-controlled, copyright-clean programming environment that can be embedded in ROM and run interactively on the machine.
A developer has built ZX Desk, a full graphical desktop environment for the 1982 ZX Spectrum 48K, written entirely in Z80 assembly. It supports overlapping resizable windows with z-ordering, pull-down menus, a file manager, notepad, calendar, clock and settings panel, all running within the machine's 48K memory and real-time frame budget, on actual hardware rather than an emulator.
Programmer John Carmack reflected on Musashi's Book of Five Rings, drawing a parallel between the evolution of martial arts from combat necessity to hobby and sport, and the trajectory of manual coding skills as AI increasingly automates programming tasks. He suggests that meticulous hand-written coding is shifting from an essential craft into a ceremonial practice, much like traditional martial arts became after losing battlefield relevance.