PC6502
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LT6502
Building on the PC6502 system I decided to make a laptop 6502 system. I think there’s something nice about having a portable retro system that is fully self contained. It’s going very well so far. It’s been quite a steep learning curve. I’ve been remembering the 6502 assembly coding I did back in the 1980s, slowly remembering. It’s been fun to bring the system up one bit at a time, starting EhBASIC, getting teh display working, the beeper and compact flash. So here is where I’m at; Here was the test of the comms with the keyboard, a simple “HELLO” from basic, which is being controlled by the console port…
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PC6502 + Transputer
So, yeah, I have a thing for transputers, don’t ask me why, I don’t know. I’ve always been fascinated…. Anyway, I finally managed to get some reliable and repeatable comms between my 6502 tower and a T425 TRAM. Here you can see the data going out, and coming back in! In this case writing 0xEFBEADDE to address 0x80000000 (T425 internal RAM). Now this was supposed to be 0xDEADBEEF, but of course, the transputer is little endian.Anyway, output from BASIC program is below; I’ve tried this with the 4 TRAMs (Transputer Modules) I have and they all work!.Here is the tower with the link adapter and a single TRAM on top.…
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PC6502 update
I have been tinkering with various bits of the PC6502 computer system in between looking after Suzi (who is getting better slowly, but we still have a couple of months of hard work ahead of us). Previously I was able to show the OPL3 Sound and Speech card working, Here is an updated video of it playing a tune 🙂 Next I managed to get the display working, this is a 480×272 screen, it has built in fonts and a bunch of features line circle, line drawing and filling, so I can do a bunch of cool things as I go forward with it. I’ve not figured out how to…