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SBScott Boudreauxelyanlabs.hashnode.devAug 12 · 3 min read

N64 LLM: a Large Language Model Running on a Nintendo 64

Legend of Elya runs a real transformer language model natively on a 1996 Nintendo 64. Not an emulator on a modern box, and not a cloud call over the network: an 819K-parameter byte-level transformer e

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SBScott Boudreauxelyanlabs.hashnode.devAug 11 · 3 min read

SNES LLM: a Language Model Running on a Super Nintendo

The Super Nintendo has a signed hardware multiply hiding in its picture processor. We expected that to change the answer. It did not, and finding out why produced the most useful result in the whole s

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SBScott Boudreauxelyanlabs.hashnode.devAug 10 · 18 min read

Transformers on Four Retro Consoles

Elyan Labs · August 2026 We Ran Transformers on Four Retro Consoles and Counted Every Cycle A language model generates text on a Game Boy Color. Another answers questions on a Nintendo 64. The fourth

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SBScott Boudreauxelyanlabs.hashnode.devAug 9 · 3 min read

Sega Genesis LLM: a Language Model Running on a Motorola 68000

This one has run on real hardware. A Sega Genesis Model 1 from 1988 generates English text, and the token rate on screen is the console counting its own vertical blanks — not a number we supplied. Wha

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SBScott Boudreauxelyanlabs.hashnode.devAug 8 · 2 min read

Game Boy Color LLM: a Language Model Running on a Sharp SM83

A 260,000-parameter transformer generates English on a stock Game Boy Color. Our contribution was making it 10.09× faster without changing a single generated character. What it is A byte-level transfo

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SBScott Boudreauxelyanlabs.hashnode.devAug 5 · 3 min read

NES LLM: a Language Model Running on a Nintendo Entertainment System

The Ricoh 2A03 in an NES is built on a 6502 core designed in 1975. Backpropagation was published in 1986. The transformer architecture was published in 2017. The chip is older than the mathematics it

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Ccircuitrockscircuitrocks.hashnode.devAug 3 · 2 min read

Build a Working Apollo DSKY Replica with Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Every embedded systems student learns the same lesson eventually: constraints breed cleverness. The Apollo Guidance Computer that flew astronauts to the Moon ran on roughly 2 KB of erasable memory and

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Ccircuitrockscircuitrocks.hashnode.devJul 26 · 2 min read

Portable Commodore 64: A Raspberry Pi Retro Handheld

The Commodore 64 still holds the record as the best-selling single computer model ever made, and more than four decades after its 1982 debut people keep dragging it back into the present. For a studen

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WRWater Runwaterrun.hashnode.devJul 23 · 4 min read

stoneChat: An LLM Web Chat Built for Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6

Modern AI applications usually require a recent browser, a modern operating system, and a large JavaScript framework. stoneChat goes in the opposite direction. stoneChat is a lightweight LLM web chat

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Ttlxdevtlxdev.hashnode.devNov 30, 2025 · 6 min read

Writing Windows 95 software in 2025

I spent last weekend getting Windows 95 running on my Mac. I wanted to write C programs for it. I don't have a good reason why. Prerequisites MacOS with Homebrew and Docker installed About 3 gigabytes of storage space Step 1. Installing an emulator ...

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N64 LLM: a Large Language Model Running on a Nintendo 64

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Sega Genesis LLM: a Language Model Running on a Motorola 68000

Game Boy Color LLM: a Language Model Running on a Sharp SM83

NES LLM: a Language Model Running on a Nintendo Entertainment System

Build a Working Apollo DSKY Replica with Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Portable Commodore 64: A Raspberry Pi Retro Handheld

stoneChat: An LLM Web Chat Built for Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6

Writing Windows 95 software in 2025