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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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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…