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by wkjagt 3y ago
My 9 year old recently said "why are there only cameras outside the school. They should also put them in classrooms for when the teacher has to go to the bathroom"
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I also hate this. When someone tells me they really like how I did something, when they clearly don't and only say so to package their criticism, I find it hard to take their criticism seriously because at that point I no longer know w
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Scot also has a really nice Forth for the 65c02. Comes with great docs, and is pretty easy to adapt to all kinds of 65c02 based computers. I had it running on a home soldered project for a while and it was great fun. Check out his GitHub if
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Wozmon, the ROM on the Apple 1 that fit in 256 bytes. Ben Eater did a good video (1) recently going through the 6502 assembly. (1) https://youtu.be/SpG8rgI7Hec
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by wkjagt 3y ago
OMG Blockout. I can hear the intro in my head now! If I remember correctly, it was on a very early PC (8086?) and would actually run too fast on later PCs. Pretty impressive game for the time.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
The best resource I've found so far that helped me understand how computers / CPUs work, is Ben Eater's work. Both his 6502 computer, and 8-bit CPU series are amazing. Looking forward to reading your guide. Thanks for sharing
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Hmm maybe I'll put a C64C on my list of "things to buy if they happen to pop up at a reasonable price".
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by wkjagt 3y ago
How do you like typing on it? I wonder if I dislike typing on my breadbin only because of the height of the case, and the position it puts my wrists in.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
If an original part is unavailable, yeah, I'd replace it with a more modern replacement. I prefer that it remains functional more than keeping it 100% original. But I would still first try to find an original part. And I'd feel so
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I agree. And it's not just about monetary value. There's just something beautiful about a 40 year old computer still working perfectly. The fact that it's all original is almost a necessity for me to enjoy it to its fullest.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Very cool project! I hope you do the keyboard too, because (in my opinion) that's the worst part of the C64. I see you're building the C64C form factor. I don't know if that has a different keyboard than the bread bin I have,
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I think the point of the J-CIA is to replace a failing CIA in an actual C64. However, that's not what the title of this HN post is about, so I'm not sure what is going on. Regardless, I think making a replacement CIA is very cool,
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I just lost a first version of some assembly code I wrote on my Apple II through my own mistake: my code wrote to the part of memory where the assembler kept the source code. When it seemed to work (I hadn't noticed I'd lost my co
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I like doing 6502 assembly on my Apple II+ (clone), and just assembled a PX 16C kit, which is a clone of the HP 16C calculator. Really great for hex and binary, and all sorts of bit manipulations. One day I may buy an actual HP 16C, but I c
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I did Ben Eater's 6502 kit and expanded on it a lot. You're right, it really gets you to appreciate how computers really work, in a much simplified way of course, compared even to for example the first IBM computer. Implementing s
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Oscar Toledo is awesome. I have his book Programming Boot Sector Games, and it's wonderful.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
> In USA and Canada, it seems to largely be an instinct to say "Don't take off your shoes, please!" out of politeness. I'm in Canada and this is true, but I've found that this is usually said when I'm alread
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I have a thrift store in my village, but they have a "no computers" policy for some reason. Privacy maybe?
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by wkjagt 3y ago
This is one of my favorite books on C, also because of the sense of humor of the author.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
One nice implementation of a Forth on the 6502 is Tali Forth. The documentation is wonderful too. And it's easy to extend. One thing to keep in mind when adding any assembly code of your own is that it uses part of the zero page and th
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I hope to be able to play GL Quake on this Duron PC. The graphics card (ATI Rage 128) should be able to do it I think.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I'm currently playing around with a PC I built up from random parts, based on an AMD Duron 1200. I have Windows 98 SE on it. It does feel retro. But then I compare it to my 486, and it suddenly doesn't anymore.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I find it difficult to call any PC that has a CPU clock expressed in GHz retro / vintage. Even though I know PCs 20 years ago were already in that ballpark.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
This is wonderful. I love the tests also.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I still have my 3a sitting on a shelf in my work space. Still works fine too. I only had to fix the hinge at some point. I have the one with a full 1MB of RAM! I vaguely remember writing a program for it in OPL that would tell the time usin
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I actually love RPN, but that's only since I've seen it explained a certain way, I think it was in a manual on the Forth language. RPN makes sense for a computer, because you first give it all the information it needs to do somet
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by wkjagt 3y ago
There's only one of these Good Things I regret never having succeeded at starting, and that's journaling. As I'm getting older, I realize there are more and more years during which I've been alive and it's getting h
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by wkjagt 3y ago
If they did a 16C, I would definitely buy one.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I just switched to android after years of iPhone, only to be able to use GrapheneOS.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I just bought a 4a for 150 CAD and also plan to use it for as long as I can.

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