[bensyverson]

This is fantastic. To me, this is one of the greatest side-effects of agentic coding; adding new functionality to vintage, abandoned or obsolete hardware. It gives me hope for a solarpunk future where e-waste gets a more functional second life.

[manytimesaway]

So, making obsolete hardware relevant by using the technology that's accelerating their "irrelevanceness" ?

[chongli]

There's no acceleration here. Vintage Macs are 100% obsolete. They can't get any more obsolete than that. They can, however, become MORE relevant for hobbyists through the development of new software for them.

What could be better than that?

[pndy]

You are aware that there's a huge retrocomputing community around the world that with hearts and passion preserves old machines and software?

[manytimesaway]

Being part of it myself, I think I've heard of it.

But I fail to understand how using the very thing that's shortening hardware life nowadays is "passionate". Different values I presume.

[hyperhello]

To me it proves that a technology can be understood and implemented by one person.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

How is AI making old hardware obsolete faster?

[pqtyw]

If anything it's the opposite (by making new hardware unaffordable)

[manytimesaway]

Prices for retro hardware are going up due to hoarders & sometimes social effect, too.

[bensyverson]

Life isn't black & white

[prokopton]

Can hardware became more obsolete?

[addaon]

Yes. Discrete 74 series TTL logic ICs were quite obsolete; CMOS versions replaced them. But now with new generations that are not level-compatible with the TTL versions, the TTL versions are even more obsolete.