Category Archives: Allgemein

VCFe 20.0 – over and out

Posted on 28. April 2019 by

VCFe 20.0 is over, all of a sudden, and we had lots of fun as always. Many thanks to everyone stopping by at our table, especially to those who voted for us at the poll. We got the fo(u)rth place. … Continue reading →

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Vintage Computer Festival Europe

Posted on 24. April 2019 by

Das VCFe steht wieder vor der Tür. Am kommenden Wochenende, also vom 27.4. bis 28.4., findet das Vintage Computer Festival Europe in München statt. Das diesjährige Motto ist “Pixelritter – Programmieren am Limit”. Und auch auf dem Steckschwein werden wir … Continue reading →

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Make Munich 2019 – It’s been our pleasure

Posted on 3. March 2019 by

Make Munich 2019 was awesome. Thanks to everyone who helped making this great event possible. Again, we are stunned by how much positive feedback we got from so many people. Thank you all!! Also, like in 2016, our booth was … Continue reading →

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Meet us at Make Munich, 2.3. – 3.3.2019

Posted on 22. February 2019 by

Check out our homebrew 65c02 8bit goodness including our brand new video/sound-hardware at the Make Munich fair. We’ll also have BASIC, Forth, a couple of games and candy. Our booth is in Hall 1, Booth Nr. 49, in the “Electronic … Continue reading →

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Fixing the white screen problem on a Tekway DST1062B oscilloscope

Posted on 17. February 2019 by

The Tekway DST 1062B (also known unter the Hantek or Voltcraft brand) is an inexpensive 60MHz digital storage oscilloscope, which is very much hackable and has proven to be worth its weight in gold pressed latinum. More recently, my scope … Continue reading →

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V9958 – “The WAIT” – investigation of the CPU/VDP /WAIT interface

Posted on 22. October 2018 by

… on the way back to munich, we had some time to do a little code review of our gfx library. thinking about the cpu to video chip timings and again read the well known datasheets of the V9938/V9958. suddenly … Continue reading →

Posted in 64k, 6502, 65c02, 9918, Allgemein, assembly, cpu, experiment, nop, steckschwein, timing, tms9929, V9958, vdp, video, video chip, waitstate

VCFB 2018 It was great…

Posted on 13. October 2018 by

VCF 2018 in Berlin was great! We’ve met interesting people there. Got a handshake with Scot W. Stevenson who for(th)ced us to use his TaliForth2 😉 Later on Saturday Daniel Illgen – maintainer of the Adlib Tracker II for Linux – … Continue reading →

Posted in Allgemein, assembly, code, cpu, debugging, py65mon, quality, software, stackpointer, steckschwein, Steckschwein live, tests, unit tests