I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
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- It took a lot of eBay patience to get a copy of this for a reasonable price. It’s been a wonderfully challenging read. Hat tip to @8BitShowAndTell for introducing me to it. #commodore #c64
- Just ordered a couple RF Modulator replacements. One for my 128 and the other for this 64C.That's some impressive color bleed ;-) My breadbin got the @craig1black capacitor trick and it's working great. This 64C, not so much.
- I'm thinking about replacing the RF Modulator on my short board (PAL). What is this crap on the board
- Hmm, what next
- It's working which is incredible
- 10 minute before work progress: SHA256 project is creating results, but they are incorrect. Now for the bug hunt on 800 lines of Assembly in Turbo Macro Pro where you can only view 20 lines at a time ;-) Feels close. WAY closer than I thought I'd be in a week. #commodore #C64
- I’m reasonably sure this is my original copy of this.
- 10 minute lunchtime progress: break from the SHA256 thing, the math is hurting my brain. Adding a "flour bomb" level to the game and I need some "exploding" bags of flour. Don't be intimidated by my artistic prowess. I have several minutes of art training. #commodore #c64
- Urg, this has that bloated proprietary feel that my experience tells me that I will regret doing any serious work on. I don't do proprietary formats. Bleh. #FPGA
- 10 Minute pre workday progress on my SHA256 on 6502. I think I'm close to it rudimentarily working which is kinda nuts. 900 lines of code and 126 labels so far (yikes). #commodore #c64
- The Mega 65 is the "new" project in 2021 I'm most excited about
- Finally getting around to soldering
- This card duplicator saved my butt this morning. Something went wrong on my Ultimate II and it dumped huge files onto the card and corrupted my primary assembly files. I happened to have cloned the card last night. 20 hours of work saved. Phew. #commodore #c64
- 10 minute pre evening workout code progress: Well, now I'm down the rabbit hole. Steps 1-3 of SHA256 on a 40 year old computer down, about 300 steps to go. #commodore #c64
- 10 minute lunch break progress: Implementing SHA256 on a 6502 is going to be particularly challenging
- Going through Lance Leventhal's 6502 Book and combining some lessons
- The article where I use a commodore 64 to do "slides" instead of 3 minutes with power point
- The more complex the machine, the more things that can break. Left engine alternator today.
- Simple, 'unbreakable' encryption with a pencil · imapenguin
- Tonight’s project will be moving the mess on the left to the neat and tidy on the right.