another piece in place: wrote a beos driver for the piix4 chipset to do one thing and one thing only: pass the stats - x86 with blinkenlights, my first beos driver. rip be, inc.

two celerons walked into a bar

Turkey day fun: You can interface I2C devices with a PC’s SMBUS as long as there are no address conflicts. This is an SSD1306 based 128x32 monochrome OLED on an abit bp6 motherboard (running T2 SDE Linux). SMBCON pinout and gist follow. It is device ‘3c’ here.

Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. picoide.com

Starting this December I'll be traveling for about a year - the goal is to bounce between continents and chase good food/stories/experiences. Recommendations welcome.

Google PR men: the web is thriving Google in court, where it is illegal to lie: the web is in decline

The masses were robbed of bicolor dot matrix vacuum fluorescent displays.

Thinking about attending Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) 39 in December.

I think I'm gonna bury myself in a new PCB project for the next couple weeks and just try to pretend that everything else is gonna be fine. Maybe I'll come up with something fun.

Weird retro computing find: a Dream SAM9203 based ISA card with the GMS93160x sample ROMs that got them in hot water with Roland. I think it’s a reference design, labeled DREAM 92PCGM. Descent II approves. Photo in reply is from seller - I removed the stray component lead before trying the card out.

This is a pretty good example of what it's like to try an LLM right now. Generating a table of JTAG instruction registers and their use based on the Verilog and interrupting itself to advertise a web development suite instead.

If my network redundancy is working correctly I should be posting this through SPACE†

That gradient test pattern was generated during scanout. Took a few days but I finally got the trace delay settings close enough to scan a framebuffer out of DDR SDRAM. Now all board features are working/in use.

Sometimes it’s the little things. Reverse engineered Gidel PSDB_HDMI AD9889B TX output pattern generated by fully reverse engineered Gidel ProcSpark II ep2c35 FPGA PCI board. I wrote a new controller IP for the ep1c4 FPGA that sits in between the PCI bus and the main FPGA.

I am on too many social networks

Wrote some i2c initialization for the ad9889 HDMI tx on a development board, was certain that I got it wrong because it looked like this, spent 2 hours tweaking it. Then I checked the schematic vs the default pin mappings provided with the kit in the golden top file - spot the bug.

geniu^H^H^H^H^Hworking out is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

I do not regret buying an elliptical. It is a great low impact workout.

attention lazyweb - someone made a really great video about the 3dfx voodoo architecture (from a designer POV) and I cannot find it - help?

life is better when nobody knows what you're building

Terasic HDMI-FMC documentation wasn't great, so TR5 board pin assignments -> FMC header pin numbers -> Stratix V System Development Kit FMC header is a matter of spreadsheets there should be a better way. I then just create the Tcl in the spreadsheet (right) because it's easy enough.

Huh, the 386book folks did an MSX book! I may have to buy one. 8086cpu.com/MSX/103.html

Curcumin in turmeric doing the thing

When SciAm was good.

Tried Copilot Workspace. It is like a junior engineer. It presented 3 plans from simple to complex and then could not execute on the simplest one. So far this stuff is nice for "create me an empty project for toolchain xyz that builds"

Lobster Zoidberg with Mustard Beurre Monté served in a Dumpster Vol au Vent with a side of greens

System and Method for Evaluating Social Credit through JPEG Compression Artifact Analysis in Meme Sharing

reject modernity; embrace tradition

Scallops have gone to my head. Taking the time to learn to cook while I build my own company. I have lost 100lbs as of today (the hard way)!

Finally leveled up preparing steaks with the reverse sear.

sad www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Time to FPGA.

A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott still holds up.

#PicoGUS firmware v2.2.0 is released! Highlights: - NE2000/WiFi support for folks using v1.x and Femto boards - Sound Blaster detection fixes for Windows, Tyrian, Dig-It, STMIK demos (thx @furan.bsky.social) - MPU-401 fixes in GUS mode Full details and firmware download at github.com/polpo/picogu...

🎄💾🗓️ The #Retrocomputing Advent Calendar starts today! Stay tuned for DAY 1! 🎄💾🗓️

Going to start referring to the sun as The Great Zeitgeber. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeber

This looks just like twitter now

I miss working on Windows. It was often highly stressful, but also a lot of fun.

List 5 famous people you’ve met, but one is a lie.   Bill Gates Steve Ballmer Dave Cutler Donald Knuth Steve Wozniak

Occasional evenings spent in KiCad are slowly becoming zen.

What do you do to prolong the shelf life of your solder paste? I am storing mine in a mini can fridge.

@jeriellsworth.bsky.social I wonder if making a new C64 guitar (and getting a lot of coverage) could be used to help get the old one back. Perhaps if you made it and did a video someone would be like “that’s not new my friend has one” leading you to the current owner of the one of a kind guitar.

The Dutch demoscene has been accepted as a living national cultural heritage by UNESCO. Amazing.

Fredkin was featured in Levy’s book “Hackers.”