Michael Doornbos – Page 4 – Is it time to fly yet?

Stealing my own Assembly code from my Enigma project for another project. Kinda love when you get to that point where you say “oh, I’ve done a bunch of the work for this already” #commodore

Working on the next article in my “ciphers on old computer things” series and reviewing some supporting code for a couple of the articles I did last year. Very simple code here but the BASIC built-in string slicing routines are fast enough for many fun visuals. #commodore

I think this is the first time I’ve ever used the BIT operator in my life. No longer a virgin ;-) #commodore

Compute’s BASIC Toolkit book example 3 is passing parameters to SYS. So satisfying to be just getting into the weeds with 412 pages to go in the book ;-) #commodore

My linear algebra is really rusty so I’m going back and reviewing today. SO much better if you can visualize along the way and the tools for this these days are crazy good. How can you not love open source and the people who pour themselves into these libraries?

Still not decided on Assemblers on the VIC-20 so just doing it in the monitor for now. #commodore

Cold front will be here soon, so putting some miles in. We moved here 10 years ago this month and I still have to pinch myself that we live here.

I’m planning to go through this book this year on the 64 and VIC-20 at the same time. It may very well take me a good part of the year, but there really aren’t shortcuts to anything worth doing. Means I need to re-evaluate VIC-20 assemblers again which is fun. #commodore

I eat broccoli sprouts by the fistful. If you grow then at home a quart costs like 3 cents.

Might not seem like much, but set out at the beginning of the week to get past the raw beginning stages of FPGA development. Button presses, LEDs, seven segments, counting… check. Super happy with my progress.