RamenDesk 95
A browser-based operating system experience: a full Windows 95-style desktop shell that hosts the rest of the RetroCodeRamen ecosystem.
- Retro UI
- Web
- Virtual OS
RetroCodeRamen // Broadcast-Styled Workshop
RetroCodeRamen
An engineering workshop run like it owns a late-night television network.
Real projects, built in public: operating systems, search engines, fantasy hardware, and experimental computing — documented and distributed like broadcasts.
NOW BROADCASTING
- CH·13 RamenDesk 95 Desktop shell live — app integrations expanding
- CH·13 ramn.online Online service rebuild underway
- U·62 quiet. Live at quietseek.com — search, bang shortcuts, and JSON API in production
- U·62 MX Tape Studio Instruction decoder redesign
- U·62 Nitro-Core-DX Dev Kit update in progress
- U·62 GPT-98 LAN AI platform bring-up
Program Lineup
Active projects
Everything below is in active development right now. Most projects begin on U·62; they graduate to CH·13 when they are ready for presentation.
ramn.online
An AOL-inspired online service rebuilt for the modern web: channels, chat, and dial-up-era community structure on a modern stack.
- AOL-style
- Web
- Online Service
quiet.
A privacy-first search engine. No ads, no tracking, no personalization — full-text search with fuzzy fallback, bang shortcuts, and a live crawler that grows the index in real time.
- Search
- Privacy
- Infrastructure
- Go
MX Tape Studio
A cassette-based fantasy computer: programs live on tape, load like tape, and run inside a machine that never existed.
- Fantasy Hardware
- Cassette
- Emulation
Nitro-Core-DX
A fantasy console ecosystem: a 1990s-inspired console, emulator, and tooling built for precise timing and eventual FPGA plausibility.
- Fantasy Console
- Emulation
- FPGA-Ready
- Go
GPT-98
A retro AI terminal and LAN AI platform: modern language models served through an interface that belongs on a beige tower.
- AI
- Terminal
- LAN
- Retro UI
Newsroom
Latest transmissions
Recent releases, devlogs, and updates from the station newsroom.
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quiet. crawler expansion
The crawler is reaching deeper into the index queue. Politeness rules, dedup, and storage layout are getting reworked along the way.
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MX Tape Studio: instruction decoder redesign
The cassette computer's instruction decoder is being rebuilt — cleaner opcode layout, better timing behavior, easier tooling.
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Nitro-Core-DX Dev Kit update in progress
Dev Kit revisions underway: improved tooling for building and testing carts against the reference emulator.
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GPT-98 LAN AI platform bring-up
Early bring-up of the LAN AI platform: serving local models to retro terminals over the network.
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ramn.online service rebuild
The AOL-inspired online service is being rebuilt for the modern web, integrated with the RamenDesk 95 desktop.
Station Programming
Channel guide
Two channels, two editorial standards. Same workshop.
Public Broadcasting for Programmers
Polished, produced, and ready for air.
The produced channel. Deep dives, architecture explanations, project documentaries, tutorials, and finished releases. Projects graduate to CH·13 when they are ready for presentation.
What airs here
- Deep dives
- Architecture explanations
- Project documentaries
- Tutorials
- Finished releases
- Technical showcases
Current lineup
- RamenDesk 95
- ramn.online
- Rad Renegades & Fierce Foes
Public Access Computing
Live from the basement, exactly as it happens.
The public-access channel. Development logs, prototypes, failed ideas, experiments, and work in progress. Honest and unpolished by design — most projects begin on U·62.
What airs here
- Development logs
- Prototypes
- Failed ideas
- Experiments
- Work in progress
- Build diaries
Current lineup
- quiet.
- MX Tape Studio
- Nitro-Core-DX
- GPT-98
Station Archive
The Back Shelf
The station archive. Not a graveyard — projects stored for preservation, reference, or future revival.
RCR-BS-001 HARDWARE / OS
RinkOS
A LoRa-powered pocket communicator OS with 1999 Cybiko energy, built on the LilyGO T-Deck. Mesh messaging, retro UI, and a lightweight OS layer.
RCR-BS-002 GAME
Bloop Blaster 9000
A tiny AI-generated game experiment inspired by Faceball 2000, created in about 20 prompts.
RCR-BS-003 SERVICE
NetWaveChat
An instant-messenger-era chat experiment from before ramn.online absorbed the online-service mission.
RCR-BS-004 WEBSITE
Original RetroCodeRamen
The first incarnation of this site — the retro-tech blog that became the broadcast-styled workshop you're looking at now.
Support + follow
Keep the ramen boiling.
Support future builds, hosting, and broadcast experiments, or follow along as new transmissions land.