Projects, Fun and Games from Gordon @ Drogon dot Net
After I was happy running GIBL (my 6502 TinyBasic) on my Ruby board, I thought about porting it – I also thought about a new project I’d like to do over the winter solstice period, so before tackling that project … Continue reading → The post Porting my TinyBasic to the W65C134-SXB first appeared on Gordons Projects .
Who would have thought that in 2023 some idiot would write another Tiny Basic for the 6502… Well, I was that idiot… Because: Why Not! It all started as something else… Over the summer just past I wrote a new … Continue reading → The post A New Tiny Basic for the 6502 first appeared on Gordons Projects .
For a long time I’ve been writing Mandelbrot programs for fun and recently to act as a benchmark for some retro BASIC systems. The output has been variable from simple ASCII text to high resolution colour graphics. For retro systems… … Continue reading → The post Retro Basic Benchmarking with Mandelbrot first appeared on Gordons Projects .
What a weird name, but I wanted something with calculate and tron it it, so there you go… What is it? APRICOT is a programmable calculator. A very simple one but it’s quite effective and Turing Complete if you want … Continue reading → The post APRICOT – A PRogrammable Interactive Calculate O Tron first appeared on Gordons Projects .
Doing some tinkering with my retro BCPL system recently and while I’ve always though it was faster than BASIC on the same hardware, I never really worked out just how much faster it really was… So as it was a … Continue reading → The post Retro BASIC and BCPL Benchmarks first appeared on Gordons Projects .
Way back we had mechanical output devices for our computers. These were big, slow, noisy and really a spill-over from the days of the telegraph, but they fulfilled their purpose and much code, including early Unix was written using them. … Continue reading → The post The Humble “Glass Teletype” and the Lazy Programmer… first appeared on Gordons Projects .
Previously I wrote about the issues bootstrapping BCPL on my Ruby board and I was moaning about needing a C front-end or “shim” to get BCPL going. So I engaged the little grey cells and worked out a strategy… What … Continue reading → The post Ruby816 – Solving the bootstrap paradox first appeared on Gordons Projects .
Brief post to say that I’ve now gotten round to writing up my Ruby 65816 SBC system. Hardware is working well and the software is slowly progressing. Details here … Continue reading → The post My Ruby 816 project first appeared on Gordons Projects .
We have a nice point to point racetrack in (near) Buckfastleigh, so today we went over for the first race of the season. One of the horses that is stabled/trains at the yard where I ride out from was racing … Continue reading → The post A Day at the Races first appeared on Gordons Projects .
Stage 3, but if you missed it, then back to the mix and knead step… or back to the preparation step… The Big Bake The next morning comes – round about 5:45am and the dough has risen! Hooray and up … Continue reading → The post Home Artisan Microbakery – 3/3 first appeared on Gordons Projects .