the difference that is no difference makes no difference
So one of my latest excessive uses of claude is a remake of my msx-rom-and-floppy-emulator but using a RP2350B board. Like a lot of nerdy types I bought a Raspberry Pi pico 2 when it came out years ago thinking I could do clever rom emulation stuff with it, but I kept on having issues […]
So this is one of my experiments in using AI to fast track some projects (for reference I mostly used Claude Sonnet 5). My basic goal was
Like the rest of the world I am tinkering with AI. I spend a lot of time going “Can it do this …”. When I first started playing with AI a few years ago, my general concensus was “Good at modern languages, but rubbish at older retro stuff”. For example, asking any AI to write […]
Something a little different. I started to write this a year ago 😉 My day job is in the Kubernetes realm, and I quite like Kubernetes for what it is, but given one of it’s aims is to group the resources of a bunch of machines together, you often need several machines just to ‘try […]
Recently I came across the AppleII-VGA project by Mark Aikens. It takes a Raspberry Pi Pico, adds some level converter transceivers, then attaches it to the address, data and control signals of an Apple II, and effectively it sits there doing two things. 1. It listens for ‘writes’ coming from the 6502 CPU to the […]
The Tomy Tutor is a not very well known early home computer (circa 1982). It originally came out as the Tomy Pyuuta in Japan (I’ve seen it written as Pyuta and Puuta and Pyūta as well). I had not heard of it myself until recently either. Doing all that research for the TI-99/4a meant I […]
Yeah, it’s another MSX computer. Well MSX2 in fact. I already have an Omega MSX2, and my breadboard MSX computer is kinda an MSX1 computer, so why do I need another one? I’ve had a couple of queries recently about the msx-rom-and-floppy-emulator , and while it works fine on my Omega MSX2, I’ve had a […]
So I was at that moment when I pack away some old computer I’ve been working on for a while (the TI-99/4a) and I happen to read about the p-code card. When I was a kid I remember seeing books about the UCSD p-system or UCSD Pascal and hey the 99/4a had this p-code card […]
The Texas Instruments TI-99/4 came out in 1979, and had some minor updates to become the TI-99/4A in 1981. Texas Instruments has seemingly been around ‘forever’. They make a lot of things, but just like today they made a lot of semiconductors in the 1970s and unsurprisingly the TI-99/4A has a lot of ‘TI’ chips […]
After getting the fast RAM and IDE interface all working on one of my Amiga 500s, it gets a bit annoying trying to find the correct boot floppy that has all the correct partition settings in a mountlist. I actually don’t mind the slightly slower boot with the floppy, but the convenience of ‘auto boot’ […]
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