Here's the roundup of our posts for April. Comments welcome on this thread! Check the original posts on gplus for comments too. (See also our previous roundups and our profile page - or look here.)


2018-04-03 - Bitshifters collective port Prince of Persia from original Apple II source to Acorn's BBC Micro




2018-04-08 - Finding and fixing a very old bug in MS Basic's multiplication




2018-04-10 - the Cactus, a new homebrew 6502 system with a blinking lights front panel




2018-04-15 - the Microtan-R, a loving recreation and upgrade for the Tangerine Microtan 65, with a backplane and allowing for either a 6502 or a 6809 CPU card




2018-04-17 - The Computer Museum of America, newly opened, started as a private Apple collection




2018-04-20 - some "short type-ins for unattended beebs" seen taking over at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park




2018-04-24 - "Meet the Digital Group" an advert for a $375 computer (kit) based on 6501 or 6502, with just 2k of RAM. Also available assembled, with more facilities, and with other CPUs.




2018-04-27 - the story of AKALABETH, a very early computer role-playing game, by the self-styled Lord British who later wrote the Ultima series.

Here's the roundup of our posts for May. Comments welcome on this thread! Check the original posts on gplus for comments too. (See also our previous roundups and our profile page - or look here.) We've been doing extra posts on Tuesdays, for #SixFiveOhTuesday, but we might give that a rest for a month or two - back to a weekly cadence.

2018-05-01 - Address up to 1 MByte using the 6509 CPU, or Jim Brain's 6509 replacement project.



2018-05-04 - Arcade Game Designer ported to the 6502-powered Acorn Atom.



2018-05-08 - Acorn's Atom on the low cost open source Blackice FPGA board



2018-05-11 - A port of BBC Basic to the PDP-11, and a PDP-11 emulator in BBC Basic. (And a PDP-11 as a second processor to a BBC Micro.)



2018-05-15 - the Ultimate 64 replacement motherboard - needs only original SIDs.



2018-05-18 - GPS for your C64



2018-05-22 - fast Mandelbrot for the Beeb using 8 bit fixed point values



2018-05-25 - the ET-2 robot using a SuperKIM for a brain.



2018-05-29 - the Quester Micromouse maze-solving robot uses an Acorn System for a brain.

Here's the roundup of our posts for June. Comments welcome on this thread! Check the original posts on gplus for comments too. (See also our previous roundups and our profile page - or look here.)

2018-06-03 - Bogomandel upgraded to greater precision and performance using large lookup tables, in a documented series of optimisations.



2018-06-10 - an online SID player by +Jens-Christian Huus - as you may know, you can't play chiptunes without some degree of 6502 emulation, and so Jens has built on WebSID by Jürgen Wothke.



2018-06-15 - not a PET by CBM, but a homebrew ABM by one of the Acorn fanatics in the Netherlands.



2018-06-22 - "A design case history: the Commodore 64" an in-depth article from 1985. (We notice this article hit a few news sites not long after we posted!)



2018-06-29 - Wiebo de Wit's writing of a Tetris for the C64, blogged in some detail over 14 episodes.

Thanks, Ed. It's always nice to see these.

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

Thanks Garth - it's nice to know someone is reading them!

I expect a lot of people look at them and enjoy them but don't have much to say.

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

Yes, that's always the (hopeful) assumption! I did have a dip in enthusiasm for this endeavour a month or so ago, but I seem to be back in the saddle. We've just reached the six year mark, and so well over 300 posts.

Definitely. Always interesting to see what other people are getting up to out there.

Well, I do take a look too

And I wonder how you (BigEd) manage to catalog all these sources

Is there any web page containing a 6 or a 5 or a 0 or a 2 you don't know?


Please continue!

Arne

Thanks for the encouragement! I do sometimes wonder if we might run out of material, but as yet, I hope there has only been the occasional faint sound of a barrel being scraped. Happily there are still 6502 enthusiasts making new projects and even new discoveries, and publishing.