Monthly Archives: November 2021

Zolatron 64 6502 homebrew – a terminal of my own

Early on in the design of the Zolatron 64 6502-based homebrew computer I made the decision that I wasn’t going to bother with attaching a keyboard and monitor. It has a 16×2 LCD display for small stuff. Otherwise, I/O was always going to be via serial. That means talking to the machine via some kind of terminal software. To date,… Read more »

Zolatron 64 6502 homebrew – even better LCD printing

Many thanks to reader Michael McLaren for giving me a heads-up about a better way to move the cursor on the LCD display. In an earlier post, I described how I was using the ‘shift cursor right’ command multiple times to put the cursor in the desired position – mainly so that I could use the second line of the… Read more »

Zolatron 64 6502 homebrew – converting between text and numbers in assembly

One thing it was obvious I would want to do with the Zolatron 64 6502 homebrew computer is have a routine to display the contents of sections of memory – à la Wozmon. There’s a snag, though. The content of any given byte in memory is a number, in the range 0-255. But to display this on the screen, this… Read more »

Zolatron 64 6502 homebrew – better LCD printing

A quick recap. The Zolatron 64 6502 homebrew machine is at the point where it can print messages to an LCD screen and send and receive messages via the serial port. Most of the time. The incoming messages are put in a buffer and then printed to the LCD. And a fat lot of use that is. I wanted to… Read more »