Mastodawn

Holy bubble sort batman! I decided to run my sort on a 1k element array on the Idun CPeM against my lovely little RC2014.

It's hardly a fair comparison, but I actually thought that the emulated CPM would be a bit more "dumbed down". The sort had already started on the Idun before the rc2014 had populated the array with random data.

I'm getting an appreciation for how good we have it now.

#rc2014 #iduncartridge #c64u

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Retrofan 64 Mar 7

So I have a few steps/options for building the Idun Cartridge..

Have a crash course in electronics building AND/OR

Have a crash refresher in reading a schematics AND

Have a crash refresher in reading the bands on resistors / identifying resistors AND/OR

hoping the blurry pictures of assembled units online are fit to get the gist (for 1 - 3)

Setting up a Discord account and barfing all the way.

I'd really assumed there'd be a bit more to go on (like build instructions).

If anyone here knows of any online guides, or has done it before and can give a noob the 101 level intro, I'd appreciate it greatly.

#c64 #iduncartridge #diy_electronics #pcbassembly

Retrofan 64 Mar 7

"The kit comes with everything needed to assemble the idun-cartridge"

Except for build instructions

There is an interactive HTML in the repo, but it's missing component orientation for all but a few obvious things.

I'm not an electronics builder. I'd hoped this might be like other kits I built fovever ago where all this was laid out somewhere.

I'd also hoped for a more gentle learning curve. This is going to be a lot. I'm not keen on potentially screwing up hundreds of dollars of hardware I've waited months to get.

#iduncartridge