It looks horrible, but the traces appear to be good. Horrible leaky old batteries removed and new ones ordered - it might yet live!

Who can guess what it is though?

OK, bear with me on this one - it's a Friday Afternoon thought.

Why not write a NUT simulator for the classic HP Voyager calculators on MicroBeast? I'd be happy to produce an alternative keycap set and then it'd be possible to use it as a full scientific calculator..

VideoBeast emulation in BeastEm is making good progress.

If it was a head twist designing a quite parallel, timing sensitive hardware implementation, it's even more confusing turning it back into a reasonably accurate software emulation.

Looking about right so far!

WIP: Manic Miner running in a window with #VideoBeast. It's a good test of the hardware as the code thrashes all of memory.

A few small fixes to be made, but porting it was fairly simple - changing port addresses and adding delays for the faster CPU on #MicroBeast. #8bit #retrogaming #z80

Alongside MicroBeast, I'm developing VideoBeast - a modern graphics chip for 8-bit computers.

Besides large tile maps, text windows, 16 and 256 colour bitmaps, it now also supports 'Sinclair' style memory maps - so it should be possible to run relatively unaltered Spectrum games on MicroBeast, RC2014 and Z80 homebrew computers.

I need to come up with a term for MicroBeast owners.. Beast Herders? Zookeepers?.. um..

Anyway, this is rather wonderful - a MicroBeast Owner is working on a case as an alternative to the box mount that comes with the kit. It's still early days, but doesn't it look great?!