Monthly Archives: June 2020

Zolatron 64 6502 homebrew computer – first boot

Okay, so the headline is overstating matters a little, but this thing is making progress. Here’s a quick series recap: I decided to brew my own 6502-based computer. Rather than start from nothing, I built a kit, with partial success. And I’ve been following along with Ben Eater’s 6502 project on YouTube. Both taught me a lot. However, even before… Read more »

Zolatron 64 6502 homebrew computer & Ben Eater’s project – changes to the ROM

In my previous post, I mentioned how, while I’m following along with Ben Eater’s 6502-based homebrew computer project, I’m also making some revisions of my own. One of these is to use my own address decoding scheme. So far, things are working okay, but that post included a note about how I’m going to have to make some changes to… Read more »

Following Ben Eater’s 6502 project – parts 5 & 6

Back in the first half of February, Ben Eater added parts 5 and 6 of his YouTube series on building a 6502-based homebrew computer. The enhancements he made gave the computer something it has been sorely lacking – memory. And the reason the computer needed memory was so it could have a stack. Up to that point, the code had… Read more »

Chatting at home with ejabberd on the Raspberry Pi

One of the problems with having just two people living in an old, rambling house is that you spend a lot of time shouting. My More Significant Other (MSO) and I work in different parts of the house – I have an office and she prefers to work on her laptop in the living room. We often need to communicate… Read more »