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This article was inspired by my question on Retrocomputing, on Stack Exchange, Largest memory peripheral for Sinclair ZX81? and turned into a list of links to vintage computing magazines.
Category: Programming
Minimal AVR kit
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Many moons ago, before I knew anything about Arduino, I bought a “minimum ATmega kit” from eBay, pretty much like this, DIY ATMEGA8 Minimum System Board ATmega48 ATMEGA88 Minimum System Board AVR Kit. It arrived, I built it, I put in in a box and forgot all about it until today, when I came across it.
But once you’ve made it how can you use it and what are the buttons for?
EZ-code for ZXSpectrum
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This question, How were the first ZX Spectrum games written?, got me thinking about how I used to code the ZXSpectrum, which was using assembler, via a BASIC program (not app) called EZ-code, which came from the excellent book by William Tang, Spectrum Machine Language For The Absolute Beginner. Then I found this question Where can I get the errata sheet for Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner?
String Theory
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Found a great source of information about using the String class in Arduino, in this article, The Evils of Arduino Strings, from Majenko‘s site.
Move it to GitLab
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On June 3, whilst uploading some new code, I saw the banner on GitHub stating that MicroSoft had just completed a takeover agreement, and I promptly looked for an alternative.
Random VLC random clip player
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I needed a way to play random clips of random movies in a VLC playlist, in a random order (of a random length?)
Arduino Boards and Chipsets
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Which AVR ICs and Arduino boards should you develop for? Which pre-processor conditional directives are necessary?
