Logged in after 18 months for one final post (which will probably get buried)...
Catch me on Mastodon @digarok@mastodon.social
or BlueSky @digarok.bsky.social
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I don't know who to tell since this is niche, but I wrote a golang module to indent assembly language programs written in Merlin. I'm mostly proud of the name "merlingo". Get it? Merlin? Go? Lingo? Is this thing on?
github.com/digarok/merlingo
Anyway, part of a larger tool I use.
It has been reported that the Mariupol Computer Museum in Ukraine, a privately owned collection of over 500 items of retro computing, consoles and technology from the 1950s to the early 2000s, a collection nearly 20 years in the making, has been destroyed by a bomb.
Quick weekend project: VSCode syntax-highlighter for Merlin assembler syntax
You can click "Extensions" and search for "Merlin" or "65816" to find and install it in VSCode, or from the marketplace webpage.
marketplace.visualstudio.com…
Source code (OSS) github.com/digarok/vscode-me…
Birthday Haiku for the incredible Oz of Brutal Deluxe. Here's to many more my good friend!
ALT An Applesoft BASIC program drawing a picture of a digital flower with a haiku underneath that says, "A genius young lad, He never stops creating, Oz can't be fifty?!", followed by "Happy Birthday".
1 DEF FN R(Q)=COS(7*SIN(2*Q)):I=0.5:OX=0:OY=-20:HGR:HOME:VTAB 22:?" A genius young lad":?"He never stops creating":?" Oz can't be fifty?!":HTAB 23:?"Happy Birthday :)";:F=139 OX:E=96 OY
Look, I don’t want to punish anyone’s success, but the wealthy have been getting a free ride at the expense of the middle class for too long.
I intend to pass one of the biggest middle class tax cuts ever — paid for by making those at the top pay their fair share.
We can officially mention this now! WDC's 6502 core is now on plastic! The team at PragmatIC is delightful and they have some great, ever-changing technology. Looking forward to a continued partnership for 65xx based thin film solutions.
Would you like to read about how we took the iconic 6502 microprocessor that was the brains of computers like the Apple II and early Commodores, laid out and manufactured the chip in less than two weeks? hubs.ly/H0VS9Pw0#flexible#semiconductor#foundry
I completed a dream and this chapter of my life is now written. I showed my work at the great @revision_party ! 😭
It may have taken 30 years but it's never too late. Thank you Jesse Blue.
What chapter comes next?
youtu.be/uDdJFKRtufU