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 […]
So, as mentioned at the end of Recreating the Colecovision, a friend was interested in making one … so long as it came as some sort of ‘kit’. I then went and started ordering various bits and pieces. I often use various Chinese ebay sellers these days. One of the things I ordered were some […]
So I am quite enjoying playing around on my new C64. Loading stuff onto it is either by using uno2iec or using real floppies. uno2iec has the major convenience of ‘you just need an arduino and some wires’, but you still need a real PC (or rPi) attached. There’s also limitations to what uno2iec can […]
As per part 1 , I’ve been trying to find a solution for display output for ‘all’ of these old computers (so far two Amiga 500s, an A600, an A1200, a ZX Spectrum 48K, an Atari 800XL and an Acorn Electron). Basically I wanted a monitor or adapter and monitor that will ‘display any of […]
OK, maybe I do have a problem; two Amiga 500’s, an Amiga 600, and now an Amiga 1200. Surely one can have too many Amigas 😉 Well I always wanted an Amiga 1200. I remember in the early 90s, here I was a very enthusiastic Amiga 500 user, and the 1200 came out around the […]
So I recently bought an old Amiga 600 off ebay. It’s probably an odd purchase given I already have two Amiga 500’s and if anything “I always wanted an Amiga 1200, not a 600”. But I guess my son’s interest in more ‘kid size’ computers got the better of me, and I thought a 600 […]
So this is more of a part 2 to ‘Retro Computing and loading stuff‘ . One of the challenges I have with the Amiga is getting data from ADF images onto real floppy disks. Initially I used transwarp using a null modem serial cable. I was using linux as the source system, and without going […]
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