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.
Posts
- Walmart beats DHL by miles
- This is why I always remove the RF shields.
- What’s the best way to get this stick-on heat sink and the adhesive off of this VIC-II?
- Snowed/iced in this evening. Might as well hook up the 6502 cluster to a VIC-20 and get it calculating things at blazing speeds :) Been using the EEPROM emulator since early last year to really speed up my ROM development cycles. Oh, here’s another 100% AI free zone.
- I’ve been saving the Kawari for when I have a VIC-II fail which is silly. They are 40 years old, why would I think they’d fail this year?
- These are books 1 and 3 in this series and they are some of my favorite computer books of all time. I’m on the prowl for books 2 and 4. Happy Thursday!
- I’m the one who put this “working” label on this power supply but I have never, ever plugged it in without verifying. It’s actually my only working 2 prong. I have three with bad transformers.
- Checking for AI free zones. Found one.
- Porting Wozmon to my 6502 cluster nodes and I spent several hours chasing a “bug” in my code. Turns out I had this box unchecked in my terminal emulator. Was working all along. Doh.
- This week’s side quest: going to interface my Flipper Zero to a 6502 SBC. Should be fun.
- Grover > Elmo
- Machine Language: Count Faster on 6502 · imapenguin
- Emulator vs real
- This is the first time my 2020 Intel Mac has been too old for something. Too soon.
- Rust isn't an excellent language for scripting, but I've been playing with it in JupyterLab just for fun.
- Visualize and verify the reverse engineered Commodore 64 SID LFSR · imapenguin
- Visualizing the 23-bit random number/noise generator in the Commodore 64 SID
- How much will it cost?
- This album makes excellent use of the record sleeve. I had this on cassette as a kid and I feel like it was also on the cassette sleeve, but I’m not trusting my memory on that.
- A little after Christmas, Christmas present. The detail is really impressive.