Paradroyd's Drop Zone

Random things that interest me, mostly tech and retro-related, and stuff that's just too long to post on Twitter.

[paradroyd]

Last night’s mood...

Computers, retro and new, light, and music.

[paradroyd]

Behold, TinyTV!

Comes with a tiny IR remote.

Full sound, with volume controllable via the buttons on TV itself, or the remote.

[paradroyd]

Home sweet home..

I’ll take “Creative uses for a dead air hockey table” for 100 points, please.

[ataribbs]

Excellent Podcast from InverseAtascii of the current socialization and revitalization of Atari BBSing.

https://inverseatascii.info/2021/04/01/s6e641-bbs-social-supplement/

From an overview to how anyone may connect to an Atari bbs to the personal experiences of the commentator this podcast will not disappoint for any Atari enthusiasts.

[paradroyd]

BBSing on the PocketChip

Doing some BBSing on the PocketChip Linux handheld system

[paradroyd]

Building a Duckypad

Building a Duckypad tonight from a kit I picked up on Tindie. Info about what the Duckypad is and what it does here: 

https://github.com/dekuNukem/duckypad

Pretty easy to put together.

I have many plans for this...

[paradroyd]

Three classics, on three classics

[paradroyd]

Atari BBSs

Atari BBSs seem to be especially popular lately.

[paradroyd]

Last night

Some of last night's BBSing via the Atari Mega ST and ANSIterm.

[paradroyd]

Bringing the Pixelblaze online...

[paradroyd]

A short Thursday night BBSing session.

[paradroyd]

BBSing on the Pocketchip tonight.

[paradroyd]

Heatwave BBS

[paradroyd]

Yeah, I'll admit that sometimes there's not a lot of substance in some of my posts, but visuals...

[paradroyd]

Running Z80 CP/M at just over 18Mhz

No, there’s no CP/M card in this IIe. It’s all being done through the little SC131 CP/M box. It has a Z180 processor and has 2 high speed serial ports.

I’m actually attaching to it through a Raspberry Pi, but it feels like it’s running locally.

By bouncing through the Raspberry Pi, which is accessible on my network via telnet, I can effectively run CP/M and a few other Z80 based OSs from any machine that can do a halfway decent VT100/ANSI emulation.

[paradroyd]

January thoughts of a warmer place...

[paradroyd]

Doing some work on the non-gate array model 4

Sometimes the video would shrink & grow after the machine's heated up, like there's a loose connection, or maybe a bad solder joint.

After some checking, solder joints seem solid. Seems to have been the connector on the ribbon connecting the video board to the PS and main board. The card edge connector that the ribbon connects to (at the video board end) was really dirty and fairly loose.