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by BillO
Thu Mar 12, 2026 5:21 pm
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?
Replies: 143
Views: 254702

Re: <2kbyte 6502 Tiny Basic?

I have run the Kawalski simulator on Windows 10 Pro without any issue.
by BillO
Sun Nov 02, 2025 4:24 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Fast Mem accessed slowly
Replies: 17
Views: 1657

Re: Fast Mem accessed slowly

(For that mater I have often just tied the /CE directly to ground for some circuits where I don't really need it.)
My opinion is that is bad design practice. Yes, it will work, but there are potential timing problems with it and most SRAMs (and (E)EPROMs) will draw more current when /CS ( /CE ) is ...
by BillO
Fri Oct 31, 2025 10:53 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Fast Mem accessed slowly
Replies: 17
Views: 1657

Re: Fast Mem accessed slowly

I have a small SBC I created about a decade ago. It uses a W65C02 CPU, which is a static part and I use 10ns static ram and 45ns EEROM. The SRAM is the skinny dip SRAM they used to use for cache in 100MHz 486 mother boards. The slowest I've run that board at is down to 100Hz to troubleshoot some I/O ...
by BillO
Fri Sep 12, 2025 3:03 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: DS1813 availability
Replies: 16
Views: 2005

Re: DS1813 availability

I bought 10 from DigiKey 5 weeks ago without issue. Maybe give them a try?
by BillO
Wed Sep 10, 2025 3:41 pm
Forum: EhBASIC
Topic: Any updates on the license problem?
Replies: 78
Views: 53699

Re: Any updates on the license problem?

It seems possible, Bill, that you are very much concentrating on EhBasic as a single thing, as a distributed thing, whereas others are looking on it as a source code work which has many components, as well as the binary that comes from that source code.

On one view, EhBasic as a monolith is either ...
by BillO
Wed Sep 10, 2025 3:02 pm
Forum: EhBASIC
Topic: Any updates on the license problem?
Replies: 78
Views: 53699

Re: Any updates on the license problem?

If I ever decide to sell a product with EhBASIC on it, have fun coming after me ...

This has already happened.

And is still happening.

Buy it here..

https://www.sunrise-ev.com/6502.htm

I bought on a few years back. It was part of the inspiration for my 6507 system...

-Gordon

Interesting ...
by BillO
Wed Sep 10, 2025 2:55 pm
Forum: EhBASIC
Topic: Any updates on the license problem?
Replies: 78
Views: 53699

Re: Any updates on the license problem?

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Well, that's may be all "she" (whoever that is) wrote, ... (other stuff) ...

Again, what you are saying is only true, if ...
by BillO
Tue Sep 09, 2025 10:05 pm
Forum: EhBASIC
Topic: Any updates on the license problem?
Replies: 78
Views: 53699

Re: Any updates on the license problem?


I think you are confusing the copyright on the modifications with the copyright on the derived work .

This is getting ridiculous.

No, I'm not confusing anything. If the modifications were published in a work by itself, that work would be copyrightable. But they weren't, they were published as ...
by BillO
Mon Sep 08, 2025 9:29 pm
Forum: EhBASIC
Topic: Any updates on the license problem?
Replies: 78
Views: 53699

Re: Any updates on the license problem?

He has claims on his contributions. In most cases, you can't create a copyrightable thing without at the same time getting the copyright on it.

Exactly, according to the law I shared with you, what he created (EhBASIC) is not copyrightable because he did not acquire permission from the original ...
by BillO
Mon Sep 08, 2025 3:13 pm
Forum: EhBASIC
Topic: Any updates on the license problem?
Replies: 78
Views: 53699

Re: Any updates on the license problem?

Hmm, I would certainly say that if Lee created, say, a faster multiplication routine, that creation would have his copyright. Whether or not he embedded it in something else and whether or not he distributed the combined work.

If someone else then wanted to stitch Lee's work into another work ...
by BillO
Mon Sep 08, 2025 2:36 pm
Forum: EhBASIC
Topic: Any updates on the license problem?
Replies: 78
Views: 53699

Re: Any updates on the license problem?

BUT , the copyright on his changes is not owned by MS; it is owned by him (or now his estate, or whomever the estate passed that to). So you you still cannot distribute EHBASIC without risking the owner suing you to stop distribution and possibly for damages. And there will be two things going on ...
by BillO
Fri Sep 05, 2025 11:53 pm
Forum: EhBASIC
Topic: Any updates on the license problem?
Replies: 78
Views: 53699

Re: Any updates on the license problem?

I think we are forgetting that Lee had no right to the MS code in the first place. He was never on any egal footing to copyright or license the code to the completed EhBASIC. What he should have done was supply his original code separately and copyright and license that along with instructions on ...
by BillO
Tue Aug 26, 2025 4:25 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: IN SEARCH OF A NAME
Replies: 33
Views: 4010

Re: IN SEARCH OF A NAME

It maybe not be sexy, or amusing, but "hexadecabyte" would be accurate and within the normative nomenclature. What ever TF that means.
by BillO
Wed Aug 20, 2025 5:29 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: ATX PSU for 65C02 SBC
Replies: 27
Views: 4168

Re: ATX PSU for 65C02 SBC

I too am of the opinions that a) the ATX is way overkill and B) SMPS wallwarts are generally trash.

I've taken to use these little Mornsun LM15-23B05 SMPS unit. 5V @ 3A. Sufficient for a very large SBC.

They beat their very good specifications quite handily. About $5 from DigiKey. You would spend ...