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If you can stand the video format, this one is unusually rewarding for being a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/mikeselectricstuff https://www.you

If you can stand the video format, this one is unusually rewarding for being a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/mikeselectricstuff https://www.youtube.com/user/mikeselectricstuff I started with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la-sGpTpkxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la-sGpTpkxE "My old BBC Micro system" ... which kind of established his credibilities in my mind, and then I just kept going, devouring his entire channel. Recommended - this guy knows his stuff, and unlike certain other youtube channels in this genre there is no annoying bravado.

codeulike 9y ago
A rack version of a BBC Model B, nice.
digi_owl 9y ago
Watching that BBC Micro video made me sorry i missed that era. Doing anything like that these days would be just, ugh, painful. Too many layers, both hardware and software, to dig through to get anything close to brass tacks, and we keep adding more every odd year or so...
- retSava 9y ago
  Don't be sad, there are plenty of opportunity still! And, there's much more easily found information and help :) A suggestion is to buy eg a MSP430 Launchpad ($10) or STM8 development board (<$1 on Aliexpress) and write simple programs for those. Those cpus are very simple and great starting points.
- jacquesm 9y ago
  You can simulate those old 8 bitters easily enough on modern hardware and re-live that time to your hearts content. You'll become an ace at optimization and memory conservation.
- bonzini 9y ago
  One of my long-time project ideas is a BASIC interpreter (Commodore-style) for the ESP8266 or one of the more powerful Arduinos, with statements to control GPIO pins or I2C devices and a web-based REPL. It would be great for teaching.
  - photojosh 9y ago
    Have you seen this? BASIC interpreter hidden in the ESP32 ROM. https://hackaday.com/2016/10/27/basic-interpreter-hidden-in-esp32-silicon/ https://hackaday.com/2016/10/27/basic-interpreter-hidden-in-...
    - bonzini 9y ago
      That's pretty close indeed! Lost my idea (almost, the web-based IDE would be a bit easier to work with, and TinyBasic did not have strings or floating point), but on the other hand it must have been a good one. ;-)

codeulike 9y ago

A rack version of a BBC Model B, nice.

digi_owl 9y ago

Watching that BBC Micro video made me sorry i missed that era. Doing anything like that these days would be just, ugh, painful. Too many layers, both hardware and software, to dig through to get anything close to brass tacks, and we keep adding more every odd year or so...

retSava 9y ago
Don't be sad, there are plenty of opportunity still! And, there's much more easily found information and help :) A suggestion is to buy eg a MSP430 Launchpad ($10) or STM8 development board (<$1 on Aliexpress) and write simple programs for those. Those cpus are very simple and great starting points.
jacquesm 9y ago
You can simulate those old 8 bitters easily enough on modern hardware and re-live that time to your hearts content. You'll become an ace at optimization and memory conservation.
bonzini 9y ago
One of my long-time project ideas is a BASIC interpreter (Commodore-style) for the ESP8266 or one of the more powerful Arduinos, with statements to control GPIO pins or I2C devices and a web-based REPL. It would be great for teaching.
- photojosh 9y ago
  Have you seen this? BASIC interpreter hidden in the ESP32 ROM. https://hackaday.com/2016/10/27/basic-interpreter-hidden-in-esp32-silicon/ https://hackaday.com/2016/10/27/basic-interpreter-hidden-in-...
  - bonzini 9y ago
    That's pretty close indeed! Lost my idea (almost, the web-based IDE would be a bit easier to work with, and TinyBasic did not have strings or floating point), but on the other hand it must have been a good one. ;-)