got it bad
That retrocomputing itch … sometimes a guy just gotta rediscover the Commodore Amiga of his youth.
View ArticleThe Sharpie Liquid Pencil – massive letdown
In Primary Six to about First Year [so about 1979 to 1981], the thing to have was a Papermate Replay, the first real* erasable ballpoint. Despite their waxy purplish-blue ink (which had a strong piney...
View ArticleLovely automata: bbcbasicbot
BBC BASIC bot [beta2] on Twitter is lovely. You tweet a BBC BASIC program to it and it replies with an animation rendering of what your program would look like on a BBC Micro. I sent it this:...
View ArticlePROTODOME’s wonderful chiptunes: how to play them on your own ATtiny85 chips
I love the ingenuity that goes into making very tiny projects do very big things. I also love chiptunes. So when I read the metafilter post about PROTODOME’s compositions for the ATtiny85, I was very...
View ArticlePowering a Cambridge Z88 with a MT3068 module
I got a Cambridge Computer Z88 again, after perhaps 30 years of not having one. They are very nice little portable computers, remarkable for packing a multi-tasking OS into an 8-bit machine that runs...
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