Collaborate Disseminate
When we think of 8-bit computers, it’s natural to start with home computers. That’s where they live on in the collective memory. But a Z80, a 6502, or similar was …read more Continue reading Take A Little Bit Of Acorn To Work
Shell scripting is an often forgotten programming environment, relegated to simple automation tasks and little else. In fact, it’s possible to achieve much more complex tasks in the shell. As …read more Continue reading A 6502, In The Shell
In days gone by, a common retail hack used by some of the less honorable of our peers was the price tag switcheroo. You’d find some item that you wanted …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Point-of-Sale Through the Years
Although generative AI and large language models have been pushed as direct replacements for certain kinds of workers, plenty of businesses actually doing this have found that using this new …read more Continue reading Using AI To Help With Assembly
It was probably a reasonable assumption that the “Tiny” in our recently concluded Tiny Games Contest mostly referred to the physical footprint of the game. And indeed, that’s the way …read more Continue reading 2024 Tiny Games Contest: A Flappy Seagull Game With Sound in Only 500 Bytes
Although marketing folk and laypeople may credit [Steve Jobs] as the man behind the success of Apple, those in the tech world know the real truth that without [Steve Wozniak] …read more Continue reading Single-Stepping the 6502 Processor
There’s treasures hidden in old technology, and you deserve to be able to revive it. Whether it’s old personal computer platforms, vending machines, robot arms, or educational kits based on …read more Continue reading Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible
There are 0x10 ways to look at ROM programmers: they’re either relatively low-cost tools that let you quickly get about the business of programming vintage ROMs and get back to …read more Continue reading A Low-Cost ROM Programmer With an AI Twist
Original retrocomputing hardware is now decades old and showing its age, so the chances are it’s more common in 2024 to experience a machine from the 1970s or 1980s by …read more Continue reading It’s a CoCo! No, it’s an Apple II!
When is 14 volts not actually 14 volts? Given [Anders Nielsen]’s recent struggles with erasing an old-school EEPROM, it’s when you really need it that things tend to go pear-shaped. …read more Continue reading Erasing EEPROMs isn’t Always as Easy as it Seems