in other news, in a ~stunning~ case of misappropriation, i finally labeled my PiDP-8.
apologies to @inversephase. i promise, the rest of the sticker will go on an 8-bitter. :)
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a shadow in the wall
Quietly working on the #c64 assembler, I integrated some small utilities, notably HEXDUMP. Which by complete coincidence yielded this most #cyberpunk of (literal) screenshots.
I'll post source code at some point, but for now you'll have to log onto an actual #BBS to get it. (!)
One of the bedroom programmers.
Screen shows a simplistic "assembler" I made out of plain BASIC. It does little more than translating mnemonics into opcodes, but it does that!
Fun fact: The computer table is my 1992 original. :)
(Never owned a C64 as a kid, so this is all new to me! :D)
got the rotated text done yesterday. bah, it was difficult! and I don't even really know why. it's not a standard feature of #troff, so one has to inject some raw postscript in there. this should all be simple, but aww, there were some weird interactions. yet i made it, it works, so there.
also did the proof-reading on these latest parts, found a few small mistakes. i still need to do one (easier) table, and then i'm done with the first major part of the chapter, ca. 50 pages, 40%.
i think i'll actually print that out and try binding it into a booklet, as a trial.
fiddly stuff: dual-page display/table.
missing column headings because i haven't made the macro for rotated text, yet.
missing column headings because i haven't made the macro for rotated text, yet.
some nice progress. i've made it into the instruction tables. they are full of quirky stuff, just look at those little devils...
took a bit to set up the macros for things, but after that it got pretty nice to work with. now of course i have about 12 pages more of this to type, and they have some new weirdness in them... *sigh*
yup. i guess we're (i am) doing this. at least until i run out of steam.
my aim for the moment is this chapter, which has ~120 pages and a bunch of uniform tables/data. i guess i've made it 10% of the way already. :v
right now i'm working in a tic-toc fashion: rough out some pages in an ad-hoc way to find out what i need, then clean things up introducing macros etc., then repeat.
#troff #typesetting #commodore #c64 #assembly #neoretrocomputing
