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6502nerd

@6502nerd.bsky.social

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Retro coder and homebrew computer maker, fan of all things 6502, electronics and retro computers in general. Z80 vs 6502? I don't care they're both in computers I loved back in the day. Oric, Atari and Amiga were my childhood machines!

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 9h

That helps a lot 👍🏽

6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 11h

Never coded in Ada but I remember thinking it was decent and good for real time programming if I recall correctly?

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 11h

Does micropython work well in terms of performance?

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 11h

We learnt Pascal for A level at college. It was designed for education so it's decent I think.
But by my second year I was using C on my Amiga A500 and I liked that more!

6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 12h

My favorite is C/C++
Pascal is nice too.
For retro kicks 68000 and 6502 assembly language is great.
BASIC is nostalgic but not as interesting as I found it way back when..

6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf I can see how bad that is compared to the crt tv RF display.. So indeed as I suspected alas I do not have an old school crt tv.. Yet! 🤓

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't seen an RF display for years. I think I do have an older lcd TV that supports it but I'm sure the even older analogue crt are more sympathetic to weak and wobbly RF? 🤔

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 4d

A new video showing tools to allow Oric to play Protracker 3 files in the background from C language.
The Oric has a decent sound chip, I think it does a good job here, and now super easy to add high quality tracks to your games!
youtu.be/tL4VNIIHSW4

Protracker 3 song files on Oric with C and OSDK

YouTube video by 6502Nerd

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 5d

And relevant to lots of 6502 based machines. The general idea of a game loop, state machine for objects etc. 🤓

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 9d

Haha yes got it yesterday and opened it but no time to try anything. I'll wait for the instructions I think 🤓🤞🏽

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 10d

Love it🤓😍🤓👍🏽👍🏽

6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 10d

This is an irl photo of my desk right now! 🤓🤘🏽

Oric-1 and Atari 800XL plus a homebrew computer in a BBC case.

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 10d

You can see from my profile picture that I also have an affinity for Tangerine machines.
My first computer was bought for me in 1983, an Oric-1.
I learned to program on that and it started everything for me.
Best of all I still have it and even still making things for it!

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6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social · 10d

A Microtan65 should be on display!

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