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• Post #4168686

  New blog post! What do you get when a British television channel makes a home videogame console? A really long project to make a Tetris clone for it. https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/07/28/bbc-bridge-companion-part-1-overview.html Come back next week for part 2!

• Post #1138925

  @thomasfuchs thanks. I've never heard of such a device. Are you taking up knitting?

• Post #1138924

  @gloriouscow just sn76489 things

• Post #1138923

  @gloriouscow the wizards who can make it sing do some truly incredible songs.

• Post #1138922

  @ancientjames Pressure sensitivity so you can get the bubble stuck in that weird kind of halfway state for AAAAAA

• Post #1138921

  @fozztexx universal edge is a good idea. Is it safe to start making an adapter to this for the PC-6001, or you want to wait for a few more cycles?

• Post #1138920

  @fozztexx good idea. I was just about to ask you how much the female connector costs.

• Post #1138919

  @vga256 very nice.

• Post #769034

  @ifixcoinops didn't even know this was a thing. I assume you still use a ladder?

• Post #769033

  @ifixcoinops I gotta get this kit. No longer will I be forced to bribe local magpies to clean my gutters

• Post #769032

  @markjustmark @ifixcoinops it's gotta be incredible vibes at these meetings where you just propose whatever comes to mind and they turn it into a power tool

• Post #769031

  @Rib I bet someone on the ScummVM team is working hard as we speak

• Post #769030

  @GamesMissed it works great until you realize glue smudges the marker

• Post #769029

  @knutaf @MichaelKlamerus players who die are punished by being reincarnated in Ann Arbor

• Post #769028

  @mos_8502 why can't you do program bank switching, is it a limitation of the C runtime?

• Post #769027

  @mos_8502 Yeah, I've ruminated myself on how to make z88dk understand something like paging in code segments. It does *have* paging (https://specnext.dev/blog/2024/12/10/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-z88dk-paging-segmented-memory-addresses-but-were-afraid-to-ask/) but I think I need to do some experiments before I feel safe using it.

• Post #769026

  @hkz Great name. Is this for the A2?

• Post #769025

  @hkz ooh i can't wait. looks like it has room to add a bluescsi or something on the end too

• Post #769024

  @hkz @DosFox I was wondering if you were working together since I knew dosfox was on one.

• Post #769023

  Finally getting around to unboxing this FM-77 (non-AV) CRT monitor that Surugaya sent me with *free shipping to Canada*. Hopefully it works; they probably won't do a deal that dumb again. #retrocomputing #fm7 #fujitsu

• Post #769022

  New blog post! It's part five of my quest to make my very own #ColecoVision. This time, I let other people build one too, and make sure I actually included all the parts! There's still some bugs to work out, but I do still love my first clone system. #retrogaming #kicad #coleco https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/03/24/colecovision-diy-part-5.html

• Post #521737

  @ifixcoinops only need one guy for toast: https://youtu.be/S4O5voOCqAQ?

• Post #521736

  @mos_8502 I had a lot of fun at VCF Montreal talking to Gregory who does the C64OS for the REU. Very powerful page switching techniques for process freeze/resume.

• Post #521735

  @kimlockhartga do you take it daily or just as a response?

• Post #521734

  @vga256 this is wild. I look forward to the write up!

• Post #521733

  @gloriouscow I assume there used to be some kind of hacked debug that put text mode on a second monitor, or maybe everyone just used a different debugger to crack games.

• Post #521732

  @smellsofbikes @NilaJones there's been some neat videos with cats that I've seen. Complaining about the weather is always funny.

• Post #521731

  @hkz @jonn_blanchard the ejector marks also have dirt piled up in them, and the factory code is different on each one. Definitely pulls, but probably what they say they are.

• Post #521730

  @hkz great name.

• Post #521729

  New blog post! Fujitsu made a wildly complicated machine in the FM-77AV2, and this one defeated me. I did narrow the problem to a bad custom chip! Come along and see the heaviest 8-bit computer I owned before I got even heavier ones. https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/02/10/fujitsu-fm77av2-damaged-keyboard-controller-failure.html #retrocomputing #FM77AV #fm7 #fujitsu #debugging