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LT6502 is assembled
I give you the very chonky 6502 based laptop; It has been quite the challenge to get this up and running, the main challenges code wise were;1) Getting the screen to work, and getting scrolling to work (that was way more effort than I thought it would be).2) Understanding EhBASIC and how it works so that I could add in extra commands. Talking of which here are the commands I’ve added; The biggest challenge of all for me was the case, what you is the 3rd or 4th revision of most parts. The hinges in particular were incredibly difficult.The hinges were inspired by this print – https://www.printables.com/model/658393-friction-hinge-mechanism/comments#preview.file.aPNjd. It took a…
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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…