Posts Tagged ‘retro’
November 2025
Pupdate It’s been pretty cold and wet, so the boys are needing to wear their coats outside. Milo had a scan at the start of the month. Initially things were looking good, and the plan was to stretch out the next visit to three months time :) But then the technician noticed some lymph node […]
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June 2025
Pupdate There’s been a bumper crop of raspberries this year, which has kept the boys entertained.. Berlin Google’s I/O Connect event was in Berlin once again, which provided a good chance to catch up with various communities and some of the product folk. I also took the chance to grab dinner with some local ex-pat […]
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September 2024
Pupdate The bad/sad news at the start of the month is that Milo’s back on chemotherapy; though it seems to be going well, and we’re already almost at the end of the first cycle. Apart from that the boys enjoyed some long walks before the weather turned. Navy Reunion It’s been 35 years since a […]
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TL;DR I’ve been wanting to try emulating some RC2014 stuff using MAME for some time, and I think I’ve found my way into it with the MAME driver for Grant Searle’s Simple Z-80 Machine. Background Back when I was making my TMS9995 on RC2014 system part of my adventure into the lands of TI-99/4A fans […]
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Tags: bin, Grant Searle, gsz80, hex, MAME, RC2014, retro, ROM, Z80
May 2020
Inspired by Ken Corless’s #kfcblog I’m trying out monthly roundup posts for stuff that didn’t deserve a whole post of their own Retro I wanted to try out RomWBW, but didn’t fancy going down the route of making more RC2014 modules, so I got myself an SC131 kit from Stephen Cousins. It’s wonderfully cute and […]
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Tags: fitness, food, Mathematica, Raspberry Pi, retro
Playing Tetris on my Gigatron reminded me that I still had my original Game Boy in a box in the loft, which had last been out when my kids were too young to remember. I found it in a sorry state – the screen cover had fallen off, and the case had turned orange. Sadly […]
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Tags: Game Boy, Nintendo, retr0bright, retro, retrobright, retrobrite
After building my RC2014 CP/M system and Gigatron I decided to dig through the pile of old integrated circuits I stashed away before leaving home thirty years ago. I don’t remember the source, but it seems that I stripped down 4 systems (which might have been something like data loggers) that had a reasonably complete […]
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Tags: 9995, RC2014, retro, TMS
Retro Computing – Gigatron
I’ve had a bit of a binge on this topic over the past few weeks, putting together some kits that I bought ages ago. My RC2014 came first, and then this, a Gigatron. Why? Ken Boak did a lightning talk on his Gigatron at OSHCamp 2018, and it sounded super interesting. What is it? A […]
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Tags: Gigatron, Harvard, retro, TTL
Retro Computing – RC2014
This is the first post in a short series (with perhaps more to follow as I go deeper). Why? I came across the RC2104 at OSHCamp 2018 where I got to meet its creator Spencer Owen and make one of his Mini kits with my son. When he put his Full Monty kit on sale […]
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Tags: CP/M, CPM, FTDI, RC2014, retro, Z80
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