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
Program Guide
Every project on the network, organized by channel. CH·13 carries produced, presentation-ready work; U·62 carries experiments and work in progress. The Back Shelf holds the station archive.
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CH·13 · Polished, produced, and ready for air.
CH·13 — Public Broadcasting for Programmers
The produced channel. Deep dives, architecture explanations, project documentaries, tutorials, and finished releases. Projects 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
Rad Renegades & Fierce Foes
A campy, d20-adjacent tabletop RPG with 80s/90s energy.
- TTRPG
- d20
- Campy
U·62 · Live from the basement, exactly as it happens.
U·62 — Public Access Computing
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.
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
Station Archive
The Back Shelf
Not a graveyard — the station archive. Projects stored for preservation, reference, or future revival, shelved like master tapes.
These records matter because they show the shape of the station: big swings, weird ideas, and systems that sometimes outgrow the time available to finish them. Archived broadcasts, not dead ends.
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.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Strong identity, stalled on protocol scope. Revives best with a narrower messaging-first milestone.
RCR-BS-002 GAME
Bloop Blaster 9000
A tiny AI-generated game experiment inspired by Faceball 2000, created in about 20 prompts.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Preserved as shipped. Still playable.
RCR-BS-003 SERVICE
NetWaveChat
An instant-messenger-era chat experiment from before ramn.online absorbed the online-service mission.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Core ideas live on inside ramn.online.
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.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Kept as the station's founding master tape.
RCR-BS-005 DATASET
Movie Script Training Data
A corpus-building experiment: film scripts collected and structured as training data for language-model tinkering.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Reference material for GPT-98 era experiments.
RCR-BS-006 SOFTWARE
Shojiwm
A minimalist window manager experiment — sliding-panel simplicity inspired by shoji screens.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Proof of concept reached; shelved for the larger desktop work in RamenDesk 95.
RCR-BS-007 SOFTWARE
QuickNix
A fast, minimal Unix-like environment experiment.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Stored for reference. Lessons feed the fantasy-hardware OS work.
RCR-BS-008 ARCHIVE
AOLServer Archive
Preservation and study of AOL-era server software and protocols — the research layer beneath ramn.online.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Engineering records. Preservation, not production.
RCR-BS-009 HARDWARE
E-Ink Tiger Handheld
A Tiger Electronics-style handheld rebuilt with an ESP32 brain and an e-ink display. Crossed the proof-of-concept line, not the finished-artifact line.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Tiny hardware, deliberate limitations. A very RetroCodeRamen revival candidate.
RCR-BS-010 TABLETOP
PixelRift
A full custom Magic set where the Multiverse glitches: Pixel counters, bit tiers, and digital corruption ripping through reality.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Could return as a smaller original-IP set or a mechanical prototype document.
RCR-BS-011 TABLETOP
ToyTactics
A tabletop war game that lets kids use their existing toys as armies. Warhammer logic, Saturday morning execution.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Reached playable, not publishable. Has real legs with a scoped starter ruleset.