Going live in an hour with part 6 of my RC2014 Pro Pride kit build; I'm planning to work on the VGA terminal board this evening. Join me from 2130 BST at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett and hopefully in the meantime I'll have found my USB OTG pigtail so I can plug a keyboard into it for testing!
(Yes, it's more #SelfPromo, sorry folks. I realised I'd been accidentally announcing the last few instalments as quiet-public so they weren't showing up in the #RC2014 hashtag, whoopsy.)
A couple of weeks ago, @TechTangents asked if I'd mind going on a mission to acquire some items he'd seen listed for sale over here. Alas, they turned out not to be what we hoped they'd be, so now I get to keep them for myself - but they were still a bargain so I don't particularly mind!
The only problem is they need various amounts of repair, so join me on stream at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett in about 45 minutes (1800ish BST) to find out what they are and how many I can get to work!
Part 5 of my #RC2014 Pro Pride build tonight, and I think I'll look at tackling the CompactFlash board - I think it's the simplest of the fancy dye-sublimated boards, so it should make a good starting point for those. Hope I don't make a mess of it!
If all goes to plan we should have CP/M booting by the end of the stream, so if you're like me and have a peculiar interest in the system perhaps you'd like to join me from 2130 BST (just under an hour's time) at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett.
Returning to System/1 for this evening's stream; in about an hour I'll be sitting down to see if I can write a keyboard driver for it in Forth. The basics should be pretty straightforward but I'm not sure about integrating it into the interpreter...
Join me from 1800 BST at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett/ if you enjoy watching people flail around in languages they rarely use whilst also hoping their dodgy homemade computer stays working long enough to finish the job!
Going live in an hour with part 4 of my RC2014 Pro Pride kit build - this week we're going to build the serial I/O board, which is the last module required for a minimal configuration. Join me at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett from 2130 BST and let's find out if we can successfully boot BASIC before bedtime!
Going live, er, right now, to... *checks notes* bake some bank holiday chocolate chip cookies? Well, that's what it says here, anyway.
Ridiculously ill prepared due to an unexpectedly busy day so let's see what happens at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett!
I'll be streaming part 3 of my RC2014 Pro Pride kit build this evening - looks like it'll probably be the ROM and RAM modules, although I might be tempted to do the serial board in place of one of them... Maybe I'll let chat decide that for me!
If that sounds like fun, or you just enjoy skewing polls, join me in around an hour (aiming for 2115 BST) at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett!
Going to be streaming some more System/1 stuff this evening, picking up where our demonstration was interrupted last time and then building an adapter to hook up its keyboard for testing.
That'll be at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett from 1800 BST, and if the live demo doesn't work this time there'll simply be nothing for it but to cry.
Will be going live in an hour with part 2 of my RC2014 Pro Pride kit build - hoping to get the CPU module and one of the supporting modules built this evening. Join me from around 2120 BST at https://twitch.tv/baljemmett if you want to heckle my construction skills!
Matt Massicotte