{"id":364,"date":"2025-09-15T19:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/?p=364"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:39:39","slug":"its-been-a-month-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a month, or two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I wrote, a lot has been going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, the Transputer saga, I got a PCB from Oscar Toledo (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nanochess\/transputer\">https:\/\/github.com\/nanochess\/transputer<\/a>) 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&#8217;s or my card. Very disheartening. So I&#8217;ve paused that for a while, there&#8217;s only so much failure you can take before you have to stop something for a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;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. <br>So I&#8217;ve paused that for a while, there&#8217;s only so much failure you can take before you have to stop something for a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;m pretty much exhausted all the time, I mean like can&#8217;t sleep enough. I struggle focus and have headaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My partner sent me this one day&#8230;. very apt, very me&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SideProjects.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SideProjects.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SideProjects-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SideProjects-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SideProjects-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SideProjects-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And so, true to the above, I decided I needed something to do (I can&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have put the project in github, along with warnings about the state of it &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/TechPaula\/PC6502\">https:\/\/github.com\/TechPaula\/PC6502<\/a>. Boards have arrived, I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll have the beans to make them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;s or my card. Very disheartening. So I&#8217;ve paused that for a while, there&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;ve paused that for a while, there&#8217;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&#8217;m pretty much exhausted all the time, I mean like can&#8217;t sleep enough. I struggle focus and have headaches. My partner sent me this one day&#8230;. very apt, very me&#8230; And so, true to the above, I decided I needed something to do (I can&#8217;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 &#8211; https:\/\/github.com\/TechPaula\/PC6502. Boards have arrived, I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll have the beans to make them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,40,4],"tags":[31,45],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-retro-computing","category-synths","tag-retro-computer","tag-synth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddox.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}