In the last post, I mentioned how I’m using a RetroClinic DataCentre to make it easy to transfer files between the BeebEm emulator on my PC and my real BBC Master 128. A USB memory stick plugged into the DataCentre becomes my main disk drive (*DRIVE 5) for program files. It also holds floppy disk images (single-sided .SSD and double-sided… Read more »
So I’ve decided to build an 8-bit computer based on the 6502 microprocessor. Because nothing screams ‘success!’ like creating something that was obsolete 30 years ago. The truth is that I got into retro-computing partly because I wanted to understand computers better. Yes, I can code well enough for my needs in Python, Objective-C and Swift using sophisticated frameworks, and… Read more »
Much as I enjoy the truly retro experience of using floppy disks, they can become a bore. For my BBC Master Turbo, I have two disks I use a lot – one with ROM images, the other with the software I’m working on at any given moment. And the wrong one is always in the drive. I wanted to buy… Read more »
So I bought an Acorn BBC Master Turbo… Again. My introduction to computing – my gateway drug, if you will – was a Sinclair Spectrum 48K. I ordered one at the time of launch and then waited. And waited. And eventually a friend sold me his (he’d been earlier in the queue) and I cancelled my order. He’d decided the… Read more »
There’s a lot about this picture that makes me happy. Maybe it’s my age. Maybe it’s some stuff that I’ve been going through. But whatever the cause, I’ve developed a serious retro-computing bug. I’m going to get into details over a series of posts, but just a quick explanation of what you see here. In the foreground is a BBC… Read more »