A transformer language model (TinyStories-260K) was successfully run locally on a stock Game Boy Color, utilizing INT8 weights and fixed-point math. This impressive technical feat involved a custom ROM and on-device tokenization, though performance is extremely slow and output is gibberish.
The article details how a developer successfully ran Claude Code natively on a 2005 Power Mac G5, despite the hardware being long considered obsolete. This project demonstrates agentic AI loops on vintage PowerPC architecture, communicating directly with Anthropic's API.
The article explores how the revival of retro computing, such as a talk about QNX on the Commodore 900, inspires the application of new technologies to classic medical treatments. An example given is Amblyotube, which modernizes amblyopia therapy using VR to make the treatment more engaging.