Thanks everyone for liking and sharing the #RC2014 Mini II Picasso toot yesterday.

To answer some of your questions - Yes, it really is a real kit. There's no camera trickery, or photoshopping and definitely no AI slop. And, yes, the discount code was also real as a few of you found out. Some kits shipped yesterday, the others will go out today.

🚨 Use code DONTBEAFOOL to save 15% on the hardware on my Tindie store today! https://www.tindie.com/stores/quazar/

Peripherals for #RC2014 and compatibles...

- SID (#C64) Sound Chip Interface
- SAA1099P (#SAMCoupe) Sound Chip Interface
- Graphic OLED Interface
- #ZXSpectrum <-> RC Bus Adapter
- ZX True Tone (ZXTT)
- 8580 SID Adapter

#hardware #electronics #retrocomputing #soundchip #chiptune #retrogaming #Z80

Love the style of the #RC2014 Mini II Picasso? Why not pick one up today with 50% discount. Just use the discount code APRILFOOL at checkout. Valid today only!
https://z80kits.com/shop/rc2014-mini-ii-picasso/
Upgrade day! My blue box #RC2014 Pro gets a bump from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0. #RomWBW #CPM #ZSystem #Z80
Upgrade day! My blue box #RC2014 Pro gets a bump from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0.
#RomWBW #CPM #ZSystem #Z80
Any of the #RC2014 folks out there happen to know what the tariff status would be (as of 2026-03-30 21:35 GMT) for a US resident ordering a kit?

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@quazarsamcoupe/116317742055453783

They're also on my eBay store at https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/quazar-sam-coupe-sales along with a selection of my hardware, software and magazines for #samcoupe, plus hardware for #zxspectrum and #rc2014 & compatibles.

IKDK,LME

The latest version of RomWBW, 3.6.0 is finally out of beta and is now an official release. https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW/releases

This version has a lot of #RC2014 support, which the RC2014 Zed Pro II and RC2014 Zed II will make use of. Although it might take me a day or two to make those available on z80kits

In true cart before the horse fashion, I've validated the bus clock on my #rc2014 days after successfully powering it up.

Tonight's attempted stunt was a failure. I was going to boot my Idun cartridge and interface with my #RC2014 with my #C64U.

There is some arch-ish breakage with the default Idun image where it will happily install bins, but not check dependencies. Fixing this with a pacman -Syu to sync everything up breaks the C64 interaction (sort of the whole point).

It would be nice if the creator posted build instructions so adventurous users could update the RPi's arch linux. There's open bugs about how programs like tmux are broken in similar ways.

https://github.com/idun-project/idun-cartridge/issues/35

tmux has glibc error · Issue #35 · idun-project/idun-cartridge

trying to run tmux and receive: GLIBC_2.42' not found (required by tmux) To workaround: pacman -Rs tmux sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git cd tmux sh auto...

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