Tag: 6502
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Damon PCM
I’ve made and posted a new version of Damon: The Rocket Jockey which adds an updated music track.
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Damon: The Rocket Jockey
About two months ago, I received in the mail my very own Commander X16 computer. This is a modern 8-bit computer envisioned and produced by David Murray (a.k.a The 8-Bit Guy) along with a thriving community. It’s inspired by Commodore computers from the 1980’s, primarily the Commodore 64. I hooked it up and started playing…
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Moon Blaster
When I was about 11 or 12 years old, I wrote a simple game in Commodore 128 BASIC. It’s not very fancy, but it is a complete game, with sound, graphics, a title screen, and even a backstory. The object of the game is to fire missiles at a moon moving across the top of…
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Quest for Tires
This is a story of nostalgia, retro-computing, gaming, reverse-engineering, and fixing a decades-old bug. It might be a bit long, and can get rather technical in places (a lot of places), but if you’re into that sort of thing, I think you may find it enjoyable. […]
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Tetris Theme
When working on projects, I often let my mind stray toward future goals instead of staying focused on the immediate ones. Case in point: I started thinking about making a Tetris clone for my 6502 computer (once it has a video display). Naturally it would need music as well, since I’ve hooked up an OPL2…
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Homebrew 6502-Based Computer
I’ve been toying with the idea of building a 6502-based (or rather, 65C02-based) computer for a few years now. I was inspired by Ben Eater‘s YouTube series about it. I bought a bunch of chips from Mouser, and every so often I’d think about how to do this or that for the notional computer. Well,…
