Welcome to my part of the Internet. On here you’ll find links to all my YouTube videos, blog posts and explanations of the various hardware and software projects I’ve been working on. You’ll find me writing C or assembly on various old and obsolete systems, letting the magic smoke out of electronics and working on retro computers. If it’s technical and involves computers or electronics, I’m interested in it.
Let’s look at one of the world’s first mobile phones – the Motorola 8500x – released in the mid 1980s for £3,000.
How clever engineers made a cheap computer powerful
How do you get more than 64K of RAM in an 8 bit computer? Let’s look at how memory banking works!
It’s the Easter holidays and I’ve got two weeks off work. Amongst highly exciting things like weeding the garden and waiting for a new washing machine to be delivered, I’m…
I’ve been having a bit of a play around with my Agon Light, trying to come up with some ideas for a future video. I’ve discovered it has quite a…
How to write code for the Agon Light (and Console8) using C instead of BASIC, under Linux. It might work with WSL2 in Windows, and it might work on a…
For no reason other than I can, I’ve set up a PeerTube instance to also upload my videos to. It’s…
I’m working on getting a joystick port working on my Agon Light. They don’t come with joystick ports, but there…
In preparation for my next video I’ve been tidying up some cellular automata code I wrote. There’s some good old…