[detrites]

Absolutely mad history here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20569438 (2019)

As a teaser, from the above:

> For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the Familia Toledo; he and his family (it is a family) have been designing and building their own computers (and ancillary equipment like reflow ovens) and writing their own operating systems and web browsers for some 40 years now.

[thom]

You can buy the annotated source code for Oscar Toledo G’s Nanochess here:

http://www.amazon.com/Toledo-Nanochess-commented-source-code...

It was certainly a humbling experience for me.

[mysterydip]

There's also these two books: boot sector games http://www.lulu.com/shop/oscar-toledo-gutierrez/programming-...

more boot sector games (includes this OS): http://www.lulu.com/shop/oscar-toledo-gutierrez/more-boot-se...

[acqq]

also:

C:

Nanochess online: https://nanochess.org/chess3.html

Micro-Max: https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/max-src2.html

assembly:

Atomchess Game

The world's smallest chess program in x86 machine code, only 326 bytes!

https://nanochess.org/chess6.html

[acqq]

And another:

https://smmax.sourceforge.net/

Written in C:

"The current "shrinking level" of this version is around 670 bytes." ...

"Later on this version has been extended to allow playing with full FIDE rules, meaning including the management of en-passant, castling and under promotion. This new version is around 750 characters (35 lines of codes when pretty printed)."

+

full FIDE version assembly 583 bytes .COM

+

ZX81 1K version

[29athrowaway]

Underground but with an Internet website, github and HN account? probably you are hyping it a bit too much.

http://www.biyubi.com/eng_principal.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/nanochess

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nanochess

[detrites]

"Hyping"? My own opinion was presented as-is, without any exaggeration.

Anyway thanks for the links!

[misja111]

Assembly was one of the first languages that I wrote in when I learned to program in the 80's, simply because other languages were too slow to develop games and other stuff. Since then I've switched to Pascal, Java, Scala, Python etc. But sometimes I still miss the joy of micro-optimizing some assembly code until perfection.

This Toledo family is amazing. I wonder if this will be the future of SD craftmanship, now that Moore's law seems to come to an end and we are forced to look at optimizing the performance of our software stack.

[actionfromafar]

It's so incredible I can't digest it.

[gigel82]

Well now you made me curious to learn more about this mythical OS and browser... any leads?

[silisili]

I've read about them before, and Oscar's seemingly complete mastery of these type of things.

It makes me wonder what he does professionally, and how much it pays. Is it a valuable(to companies) skill even?

[brutusborn]

Another HN thread on Toledo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337064

[Solvency]

This reads very aggrandizing and hyperbolic.