It’s been a month, or two

It’s been a while since I wrote, a lot has been going on.

Firstly, the Transputer saga, I got a PCB from Oscar Toledo (https://github.com/nanochess/transputer) and confirmed that my TRAMs did indeed pass the tests with his card. However they did not with mine. Then I discovered that somehow none of my TRAMs worked with Oscar’s or my card. Very disheartening. So I’ve paused that for a while, there’s only so much failure you can take before you have to stop something for a bit.

In the world of synths it seems things are slowing down globally, in part due to an orange womble in the USA. I have to admit that I’ve also kind of lost my mojo for synths for the moment. That Investor? the one I spent hours on email and calls with? the one I picked up and drove to a good friend of mine to demonstrate Delta to, the one I went out of my way to spend yet more money and change the VCFs to do what they asked for? Ghosted me, not once, not twice, three times.
So I’ve paused that for a while, there’s only so much failure you can take before you have to stop something for a bit.

My mental health and health have taken a battering. My mood dropped enough for me to start seeing a counsellor again. Physical health wise I’m pretty much exhausted all the time, I mean like can’t sleep enough. I struggle focus and have headaches.

My partner sent me this one day…. very apt, very me…

And so, true to the above, I decided I needed something to do (I can’t sit and do nothing), so I started making a 6502 computer. Just for me, just for fun, in simple small steps. Hopefully I will succeed in making this at least boot and run BASIC. I need a win, I need a win badly.

I have put the project in github, along with warnings about the state of it – https://github.com/TechPaula/PC6502. Boards have arrived, I don’t know when I’ll have the beans to make them.