Notices by Tim Holyoake (psychotimmy@mastodon.online)

I've "temporarily" given up on emulating MZ-80K floppy disks :(

Instead, I've implemented Pico 2 support (by underclocking it by a third and adding a delay in the software!)

https://z80.timholyoake.uk/pico-mz-80k-now-with-pico-2-support/

#RaspberryPico #RaspberryPico2 #SharpMZ80K #RetroComputing

At least I've finished just in time to think about #AdventOfCode ... I'll probably pick a suitably old dialect of #Fortran this year ...

A couple of inches of #uksnow last night in North #Derbados

@lfa The floppy disk implementation is fascinating. It's a case of two steps forward, one back at the moment, but I am making progress!

The quest to emulate 5 1/4" floppy disks on the Pico MZ-80K continues ...

https://z80.timholyoake.uk/pico-mz-80k-floppy-disks-2/

#RetroComputing #SharpMZ80K

I finally got around to deactivating my dead bird account this morning. Feels ... good!

#Introduction

I'm Tim. I worked in #Software for 37 years at PAFEC, CA, Mediasurface, Sun & twice for Software AG.

My interests include #RetroComputing, #LibDem #Politics, #Psychology, #Renewables #Gardening & Gnu, my #Caterham7.

I write three blogs.

One on #RetroComputing - https://z80.timholyoake.uk/

A second on living with #BloodCancer, #MCL - https://mcl.timholyoake.uk/

And a third documenting my fundraising for Lymphoma Action - https://railwaywalks.timholyoake.uk/

Be seeing you 🙂

How it started ... how it's going

#RC2014 #RetroComputing #Z80

I see that #AdventOfCode is rapidly approaching again. Think I'll try something moderately sensible as a programming language this year, as Sharp BASIC was rather limiting!

Turbo Pascal could be fun ... but do I go for CP/M running on an #RC2014 or simply use the -Mtp option for Free Pascal on a #RaspberryPi instead?

CP/M ought to get my vote as I need to find something to do with my Big Integer library I spent far too long writing earlier this year 😁

Decisions, decisions! #RetroComputing