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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

Save the date: VCFb – 13.10.-14.10.

Posted on 1. October 2018 by

We are very excited that we will be exhibiting the Steckschwein at the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin . Also, we will be holding a talk about everything Steckschwein on Saturday, the 13.10. at 10:30. The Vintage Computing Festival Berlin will … Continue reading →

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VCFe diesmal ohne Steckschwein

Posted on 24. April 2018 by

Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte des Steckschweins sind wir dieses Jahr nicht als Aussteller auf dem VCFe dabei. Das Kommen lohnt sich aber trotzdem – diesmal findet das VCFe nämlich im Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Garching … Continue reading →

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Switching to english

Posted on 20. March 2018 by

There seems to be quite some interest in our little project from outside of germany. Thanks to all who are following what we are doing. To save you the effort of putting our blatherings through Google Translate or even having … Continue reading →

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