Month: January 2024

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Ooops! I did it again.

So was looking on Amazon and found a c64, its a copy not the original, but it will do for what I want. So now learning to use it, and have a user manual and assembly language book from archive.org.

Seen a amiga mini thing too, may get that at some point.

So z80,6502 and the 68000 CPU’s to play with. Next will find a 6809, I think it was, Dragon 32 or Tandy coco. The search begins.

Its all part of my retro world now, get my joy back. Enjoying learning all over, for too long the modern boring simple tech has ground me into the ground, time to get back to proper hacking old systems.

Maybe start some arduino and other things in the near future.

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New toy, old toy

I bought myself a 48k Sinclair Zx Spectrum+. I intend to take back up my Z80 machine language programming. I used to really love that method of coding. Forcing a 3.5mhz chip to move things at fast speeds around the screen.

It helped me get into the embedded systems job I held at Kanda Systems when the AVR microcontroller first came along, programming them with the Kanda/Atmel STK200 and STK300 boards. Developing firmware for the AVRIsp and using Delphi to create the ui for them. Happy times, miss that time, but also don’t miss the way I was burnt out there. Was maintaining about 40 projects in the end, mad for one developer.

Anyway, will see if I can find a way to show here how I will be progressing. In all my attempts to regain my joy of coding, building and making things, solving problems. It’s a life I do not want to give up.

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New year

It’s a new year, still no progress on the site, sorry.

Over the last 5 months I have taken up a job, with 4 days of 12 hour shifts, then 4 days off. Its taken me a while to get my head around what I am doing, and allowing myself time to get back to the job in hand for all things Bryish related.

I hope to do more changes here, and start planning my down time to start getting my personal projects underway, now that I have cash to do so from my job.

Posting and updates to the site will come. Its not quite a business yet its going to take time, due to other commitments, but its ok, as I don’t want to rush things anyway, for this to work it has to be done right, and serve me for the future and the rest of my life. I doubt I will ever properly retire as I have too many interest to keep me active.

So over the coming days I will start changing the site to reflect what I want it to do, and maybe even put a few of my experiments in coding and hardware things up here and on YouTube. Its Bryan’s page (me) and as such will have me, Learning, building and playing. Not all serious, and not professional, as I hate all that elitist nonsense, just me having fun with things I like and hoping others like it too.

Maybe one day building a living from it. This is the start, its been a hard year or so, and I’m hoping 2024 will slowly make life easier for me.

For me its about doing things for me, that I like, as I have spent too much time making other people happy, by making them rich and improving their circumstances only to be dumped on the scrap heap at 55 with nothing but memories and promises that were never fullfilled.

This changes now.