Assembly on NCoT Tech

Agon Light C Development

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:02:43 +0000

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 Mac.

Dodgy DOS Development

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:28:22 +0000

From the mind that brought you “let’s try to write games using just pure C” I have a new idea for making my life difficult.

Let’s write DOS software using period correct tools…

How a CPU really works

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:54:15 +0000

Let’s go right inside a CPU and watch it execute code at the transistor level!

Chat GPT pretending to be a BBC Micro

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:41:00 +0000

There’s a few of these types of video floating around YouTube at the moment. I figured I’d join in and have a play. Can I tell ChatGPT to pretend to be a BBC Micro?

Devlog 01 - Spectrum Next Programming Languages

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:37:23 +0000

How to get started programming the ZX Spectrum Next

Quazar Graphic OLED Display - Real Pixels for your RC2014

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 17:00:00 +0000

I found a real bitmap display for the RC2014 and here’s how I made it work.

Optimised Z80 - Conway's Life Improved

Sun, 22 Nov 2020 14:33:07 +0000

Writing more optimised assembly to improve the speed of the Conway’s Life algorithm

How I Became a better Computer Science teacher

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:48:06 +0000

How writing code for a 40 year old computer made me a better computer science teacher.

BBC Micro - Computer Literacy 1980s

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:27:38 +0000

Now I’ve gained an understanding of assembly programming, let’s look at how they tried to teach us computer science in the 1980s…

Conways Life in Z80 Assembly

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:48:03 +0000

Programming the popular cellular automaton using Z80 Assembler

Z80 vs C

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 13:02:33 +0000

A short comparison between low level Z80 assembler and high level C