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Mousepacket VDU board emulation
Added the Mousepacket Colour VDU and its later TANBUG and BASIC firmware to my Microtan 65 emulator.
Microtan Emulator Updates
Recent emulator improvements including menus, Intel Hex loading, an assembler, sound and hi-res graphics.
Microtan 65
Microtan sound board emulation
Dual AY-8910 sound-board emulation and sound effects added to the modern Microtan 65 emulator.
Microtan 65
Pushed the Microtan 65 Emulator to GitHub
The modern Microtan 65 emulator source reaches GitHub, with a summary of the work still outstanding.
6502, 6522, hex keypad, joystick, and opening snapshot files all working
Progress on CPU and 6522 emulation, keypad and joystick input, snapshot files and experimental graphics.
ASCII Keyboard and BASIC working
ASCII keyboard input and Microsoft BASIC working in the modern Microtan 65 emulator, with scanlines added.
It's ALIVE!
The first successful startup of the modern Microtan 65 emulator after porting the 6502 code and loading the EPROMs.
Microtan 65 Emulator Update 1
Progress on the character, chunky-graphics and high-resolution display emulation for the modern Microtan 65 emulator.
Breathing New Life into the Microtan 65: Porting My Emulator to Linux
Why I began developing a modern Microtan 65 emulator for Linux and WSL2.
Neowise
Not a long post, but like many other people over the past few weeks, I spent a couple of the early hours today trying to get a photo of comet C/2020 F3, or Neowise near its …
Airwolf theme cover
I recently had the urge to have a go at making a cover of the excellent Airwolf TV series theme tune. I used to watch the programme when I was a kid and loved both it and the…
I found some trees!
Although I live pretty much in the middle of a forest, most of it is plantation and is mainly long straight rows of pine trees. There are little pockets of wildness dotted…
A little music
One of my favourite pieces of music is Tangerine Dream's White Eagle/Girl on the Stair and I decided to have a go at making a cover version of it, and here it is... White Eagle…
Revisiting the Lake District
I've still not been able to get out with the camera much this year. So, I thought I'd revisit some of my photos from my visit to the Lake District last year. The first one was…
Thornham Old Harbour, Norfolk
I return to photography with an early-morning visit to Thornham Old Harbour on the Norfolk coast.
Sprinkling Tarn
The main reason for the weekend trip to the Lake District was to catch sunset and sunrise at Sprinkling Tarn. After leaving Chris at Tarn Hows, we got ourselves some…
Tarn Hows
Last weekend, I went on a long-planned hike and camp from Seathwaite to Sprinkling Tarn with my daughter, Sophie. The original plan was to make the trip in May/June, but for…
Mevagissey
Mevagissey is a small village and fishing port to the south of St Austell, Cornwall. Tourism has taken over from fishing as the main industry in recent years, consequently, the…
Rinsey Cove
Rinsey cove is a small beach with some sand at low tide. When I was there, the tide was high at sunset, so I set up my camera on some rocks. The sky was clear of clouds, so I…
St Michael's Mount
The iconic St Michael's Mount is a small tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. It is linked to the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway which is passable between…
Another windy evening at Durdle Door
The sky at Durdle Door was much less heavy the following day, but the wind was probably stronger. After getting there, I went straight to the location that I'd decided on the…
A windy evening at Durdle Door
We headed out on holiday a couple of weeks ago. The first few days were spent camping in Dorset, which was "interesting" due to some pretty high winds (I think over 40mph). The…
A brief stop in the Peak District
I had a long 400 mile drive last Sunday and stopped briefly near Crowden at the North end of the Peak District. It's been very hot and dry in the UK this summer and the valley…
Cambridge (something a little different)
We took a trip into Cambridge today to meet with up with some family, so I took the opportunity to try taking photographs of things that aren't trees. I used the 35mm prime…
Photography
No sunset photos
Daughter is home for the weekend and after picking her up from the railway station yesterday, she asked if we could go to watch the sunset. She lives in London, where the sun…
I finally bought a prime lens
I decided to buy a 35mm prime lens (Nikon AF-S 35mm f/1.8G DX). My existing lenses are: - Tokina ATX 116 PRO DX AF11-16mm F/2.8 - Nikon AF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED DX VR II…
Drone shots
I got a new tiny drone today. My "old" drone is nice, but too big to take on walks if I take my camera as well. This one's small enough to fit in the camera bag. In an attempt…
Bluebells
The bluebells are out and I'm lucky enough to live near a few places where they can be found. The first is quite a wild patch of woodland and the sort of place that I find very…
It's my tent now
I'm planning a quick trip to the Lake District later in the year to photograph something that's a bit less flat, so as the weather's nice I thought it would be a good idea to…
Snow
A few days ago we got the first snow in this area in a couple of years. As the snow doesn't often last long enough in England to be a major concern, when it happens we are…
More Thetford Forest...
It was nice and misty this morning so I headed out to Thetford Forest in the hope of getting the nice moody misty shots that I've been wanting to get for a while now. However…
Snowdrops
The countryside has been bursting with snowdrops, so I headed out at sunrise (the nice thing about winter is that doesn't mean having to get up early!) to get some photos of a…
Grey skies
The weather so far this year has been pretty dull. Nothing but flat grey skies, so it's great for working on some woodland photography (although a bit of fog would have been…
So this happened (and I had my phone out at the time)...
I caught an aeroplane in the corner of a misty woodland photograph.
Music
Phone Ringtone
I wanted a change of ringtone today, so I made one up. I may make more, so I've added a Ringtones page where you can listen to and download any that you like.
Turning Day into Night
Last weekend, I was watching some extras for the Tom Hanks movie Cast Away and it was showing the filming of one of the night scenes... in the day. I thought that I might see…
Thetford Forest
It was the Sunday morning after the end of BST, so as I was awake anyway, I took a little drive into Thetford Forest, despite there being no fog or mist and too much low cloud…
Oxburgh Hall
We had a visit to Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk last weekend. The Hall was built around 1482 by Sir Edmund Bedingfeld, and is a good example of a late medieval, inward-facing great…
Processing older photos
After uploading a few photos to Trover, I noticed a little line on my profile. "Range", it says referring to the distance between the photos. A challenge! I've been lucky…
Photography
I joined Trover
After many hints from Brendan Van Son on his YouTube Channel, I joined Trover, which is a photography site with the motto "Great experiences trump just about anything you can…
Another misty morning
This morning wasn't going to be an epic sunrise, but was nicely misty. There's a field of horses nearby and I thought they might make a nice photo in the mist. So, out I headed…
Early morning mist
It looks like we've skipped summer this year and gone straight from late spring into early autumn. I checked the weather last night and it didn't look like there would be much…
An unplanned trip
I decided to catch the sunrise at Hunstanton Beach last week. I've never been there before, so I did what planning I could using TPE, which was pretty much just determining…
Scotland
At the end of March, we loaded up the car and went on a trip to Western Scotland for a week. After an 11 hour drive (half of which was through some amazing scenery, so it…
It's been a while
Yeah... Nearly two years if the timestamps are to be believed. I've not done much music, mainly started things that sound interesting, but not finished much. I have been out…
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