Mike, First of His Name  

Really hard to get a good photo, but all the bits of my work in its hacked together form! Now I just need to get it all into a case or on a single board or something.

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Mike, First of His Name  

Haha! Huge success!

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Mike, First of His Name  

New toy day! Totally going to write the shit out of some 8k ROMs now! My own DIY cartridges are not far off.

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Mike, First of His Name  

Oh wow, I'm going to have to have one of these. I hope they don't cost a million dollars.

youtube.com/watch?v=4yOch48SSc

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Mike, First of His Name  

This little hacked-together setup ran off its fully-charged battery pack for about 2 hours or so last night, that's with screen on and running a demo in Vice the whole time.

I'm happy with that.

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Mike, First of His Name  

I've been watching the development update posts on Twitter for this for a while, and finally got to play it on a real this evening:

sarahjaneavory.itch.io/neutron

Great new little shooter game. Treat yourself to it.

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Mike, First of His Name  

Did a little fooling around with my box. Roughed out screen location with a cardboard panel, and threw in some battery charging controller bits I had in a drawer. Charges on USB for now but I have a tiny 5v PSU on the way to go in there.

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Mike, First of His Name  

Finally got my little screen and some time to play. My is alive ... albeit loosely mounted in the case.

Need to get the Dremel out and make some holes now!

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Mike, First of His Name  

Anyone interested in a SX mini? Just got this little case and looks like it'll be the perfect size. Waiting on a better screen to be delivered now and I'll start playing. Plenty of space for a battery pack too!

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Mike, First of His Name  

OK this is neat: accentual.com/bmc64/

Vice emulator for the Raspberry Pi running on bare metal, no Linux layer to slow things down.

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Mike, First of His Name  

I got a bunch of old Datasettes a while back and one of them had the plug cut off for unknown reasons. So I'm playing. 😁

I'm not reading sensible data yet (need parts), but I have control of the motor and button sense lines.

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Mike, First of His Name  

I thought it was important that my modem flash some LEDs on startup. I haven't really added anything to the firmware to use these yet but I'm thinking wifi signal strength for a start.

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Mike, First of His Name  

Made a third (dismantled the first) prototype modem unit to try some ideas out. Main change is bringing all the pins to a header and running a cable to the edge connector to make case mounting more flexible.

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Mike, First of His Name  

My parts arrived and I kinda had to immediately assemble the wifi modem of my dreams.

It works, and so does my firmware build environment! Time to get hacking ...

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Mike, First of His Name  

My cut down has one row and one column of the matrix hooked up and I can type "1" on it as much as I want. This is probably the last time I'll let anyone see the back of this, heh

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Mike, First of His Name  

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single spacebar.

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Mike, First of His Name  

I wanted an easy way to tell my real apart from my emulated in a genuine case, so a quick LED swap seemed to be the easiest course of action. Looks nice!

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Mike, First of His Name  

I was looking forward to my "new" Datasette units arriving soon so I could start cleaning up and testing them - and just realised I have no tapes to test them with. Not even blank ones I can save some simple stuff on.

This may be the first time I've tried to buy a cassette in the entire 21st century.

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Mike, First of His Name  

Just checked my email and found I'd won an eBay auction I'd bid on last week and forgotten about.

I'm now the proud owner of 4 Datasette units in various states of disrepair. I'm assuming I can get at least one working unit out of the stack!

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Mike, First of His Name  

Every time I fire up a after working on it, I load Swinth to test it.

youtube.com/watch?v=AiHyTJsE3A

When I was a kid, this blew my mind in some weird way. I remember taking my whole setup into the bathroom once so I could have this playing while I was in the bath.

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