Uncle PETSCII’s Christmas Show / TRIAD 2020 (HD)
Something I worked on over the last 5 months. It was pretty fun, thanks everyone involved.
Category: Commodore
PETSCII 4×4 Chunky Diagonal Pattern Dither Tricks
Before reading this, there is a companion article that was released here. It will help go over the basics of PETSCII and the original PDDT tricks. Previously, I was experimenting with diagonal artifacts from using …
Trogue64 on floppy and retro kit :)
Well everything is good and wonderful, Trogue64 was released to the physical world via Floppy (as part of the Komoda & Amiga plus Magazine) and of THEC64. If you are interested in checking out the …
1 “CBM DirArt Basics/Conceptual Stuff” PRG
A technical review and howto/tutorial, creating PETSCII Directory Art or DirArt. Future Articles will cover advanced topics like animations and code injection.
PETSCII Pattern Tests
I’ve made a quick and dirty c64/BASIC PETSCII pattern tester/viewer.Its based on the two dither blocks and one modifier block. you can scroll *slowly* through the 128 blocks and the RVS ON counterparts in 8 …
PETSCII Diagonal Dither Tricks (PDDT)
PETSCII is block character font (and encoding as well) for 8-bit Commodore computers. If you want to learn more about it, check the links listing at the end of the post. Dither Blocks are part …
Get Schwifty New Serial GLink232T UP9600 +Tools!
Let’s start off with how much pain the c64/128 was with serial communications in the day. If you had a 1670 or something in the 300 baud trash connection.. it didn’t matter — you were …
On the Case and Extending it :)
To start, I’ve been using a Zoom Floppy for years now — a bare board dangling beside all the IEEE gear. I’ve been meaning to make a case, but as it happens someone else in …
PETSCII 8×8 Blocks
Tiny PETSCII Compo 2020 is on between 3 January – 2 February 2020, you can go here for more: https://csdb.dk/event/?id=2921 As it is the first compo of the year for me, I went a little …
MS.Demon SD-1 + SD-2
I have a feeling that 2020 is going to be Capacitor hell. Last night I pulled out the MSD SD-1 IEEE/IEC floppy for the BBS. The main PCB looked fine, with only a few caps… …