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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- Seems silly to use a slide deck to convey ideas when a BASIC program will work perfectly fine.
- Still working on this one. MUCH harder than I thought. This iteration is with REU, creating 512k random numbers (0-255), counting the occurrences and outputting as decimal counts. Takes 31 seconds on PAL, 38 on NTSC. hmm, I really should blank the screen during #c64 #commodore
- Getting started with Native Commodore 64 Assembly · imapenguin
- Pictures don’t really do justice to how wicked cool the white vinyl of this collection is. Perfectly complements the silver album cover.
- Was chatting with someone about C64 startup states, so during a long con call this morning I played with dumping memory contents as decimal location, hex location, dec value, hex value. Too slow to be usable but was fun to do
- Friday fun: Games I'm playing in Jan 2021 · imapenguin
- Switching to 64 bit Raspbian Linux is a snap · imapenguin
- Non helpful error messages. This is from last night, clearly the backlight is working or I wouldn’t have been able to see this…
- Just opened a box in storage looking for something and found this little gem. Came out of my Dad’s 79 Suburban. Still works ;)
- I'm trying to decide if I should fully embrace the chunky PESCII graphics or if I should spend time on a bitmap title screen. I think it's safe to say that I wont be taking anyone's graphics jobs away from them anytime soon. #commodore #c64
- The graphics are still rudimentary and the landscape scroll isn’t quite as smooth as I want, but definitely making progress. Programming on vintage hardware(not cross assembled) is harder but more satisfying somehow. #commodore #c64
- Figured out split screen scrolling on my own. After 90 days I’m ready to say that I’m graduating to intermediate level 6510/02 assembly programmer. It’s got the slightest glitch which I suspect will be worse on my PAL machine. Turbo Macro Pro lunchtime fun :) #commodore
- Version 3 of my One Time Pad program on the Commodore is in progress. Used a tip from @8BitShowAndTell he helped me with for another project in this one and it's working. The rest of v2 to v3 should be easy (famous last words) #commodore #c64
- I don’t do resolutions, but I do focus on a theme sometimes. If chapter 46 of my life had a theme, this would be it.
- I like working on the tail because it’s at eye level. #myzenith750
- I haven’t been this pleased with a new keyboard since I got my Happy Hacker in 1999. Cherry Mx Brown switches for the win.
- Welp, it's supposed to snow the next 15 hours, somewhere in the 5 inches range. I think I'll watch TV. HAHAHAHA, right. My 6502 Breadboard computer needs to be moved to some PCBs. Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to solder we go…
- My “The64 mini” will be going into my airplane panel soon (I can’t bring myself to cannibalize one of my real machines) but for now it’s become the calculator on my desk. This 7 inch screen is also going into the plane. #commodore #c64
- So far your score resets to zero if you don't stay VFR and the fire button changes the plane color. I made a list of gameplay I'm going to add a little at a time. It even sorta looks like a Zenith which wasn't easy with a 24x21 pixel sprite limitation.
- Phone apps are cool I guess, but I’ve always been a hardware device person. These make regular rotations on my desk. Hat tip to my son for the mechanical stopwatch.