L Break Into Program
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Software developer & electronics dabbler. Restoring & programming vintage computers from Acorn Atom to ZX81.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BreakIntoProgram
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/breakintoprogram
Software developer & electronics dabbler. Restoring & programming vintage computers from Acorn Atom to ZX81.
Feeling smug tonight. Overtaken at speed by a Ford Fiesta round a corner and on the wrong side of a traffic island. They came to a sudden stop in the dip under the railway bridge as it was flooded, which we avoided because local knowledge. Dash cam footage will be submitted to the local police.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Feeling smug tonight. Overtaken at speed by a Ford Fiesta round a corner and on the wrong side of a traffic island. They came to a sudden stop in the dip under the railway bridge as it was flooded, which we avoided because local knowledge. Dash cam footage will be submitted to the local police.
Going into that there Manchester tonight to see Miss Saigon at The Palace Theatre. Looking forward to the production, not so much the uncomfortable seats.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Going into that there Manchester tonight to see Miss Saigon at The Palace Theatre. Looking forward to the production, not so much the uncomfortable seats.
So I think my thing for RetroFest will be trying to get the 3D cube code assembling from the Tatung Einstein. Aside from lack of macros, different syntax for hex and binary numbers, no long labels, limited assembler directives, and no LUA to generate lookup tables, it should be easy, right?
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
So I think my thing for RetroFest will be trying to get the 3D cube code assembling from the Tatung Einstein. Aside from lack of macros, different syntax for hex and binary numbers, no long labels, limited assembler directives, and no LUA to generate lookup tables, it should be easy, right?
A good night at Cheadle Geekery, with the usual crowd. As usual the Chiverton Tap were very welcoming and had some great beers on. I stuck with the Ginger by Marble Beers. Very tasty, and vegan friendly.
Home
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November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A good night at Cheadle Geekery, with the usual crowd. As usual the Chiverton Tap were very welcoming and had some great beers on. I stuck with the Ginger by Marble Beers. Very tasty, and vegan friendly.
Transferring my lib_spectrum repo to the Einstein so that I can get it assembling my Spectrum 48K 3D cube demo as nature intended. Using a serial cable and Eintrans.
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Transferring my lib_spectrum repo to the Einstein so that I can get it assembling my Spectrum 48K 3D cube demo as nature intended. Using a serial cable and Eintrans.
Got a project idea for next year - an IRDA (IrCOMM) modem-ish network adaptor built around the Raspberry Pico for the Psion Series 5, with the intention of getting it networked somehow. I've not thought this through. How hard can it be??
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Got a project idea for next year - an IRDA (IrCOMM) modem-ish network adaptor built around the Raspberry Pico for the Psion Series 5, with the intention of getting it networked somehow. I've not thought this through. How hard can it be??
This is really cool.
Ten years ago, I made my first parallax-scrolling ANSI art animation. Today I cleaned it up, made it smoother and added titles and credits.
The original was a user-controllable tech demo I made for my late daughter Jadzia on our BBS, "Guardian of Forever."
#bbs #ansiart #textmode #retrocomputing
The original was a user-controllable tech demo I made for my late daughter Jadzia on our BBS, "Guardian of Forever."
#bbs #ansiart #textmode #retrocomputing
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is really cool.
Had to pop over to Facebook to contact someone who is only on there this afternoon. It is dishing up absolute garbage, most of it AI generated. Even worse than I remembered. Maybe it's the algorithm struggling with my almost empty account and lack of activity. Maybe that is what it is now.
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Had to pop over to Facebook to contact someone who is only on there this afternoon. It is dishing up absolute garbage, most of it AI generated. Even worse than I remembered. Maybe it's the algorithm struggling with my almost empty account and lack of activity. Maybe that is what it is now.
Testing the Stunt Spectrum / Z80 PIO board ready for RetroFest. Thankfully it’s still working since the last show.
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Testing the Stunt Spectrum / Z80 PIO board ready for RetroFest. Thankfully it’s still working since the last show.
Oh, you knew the drill, I'm sure. Crosswords, Chores, Coffee, Cat and Coding Challenge. All done in record time. Get me!
a cartoon of barney 's bowling alley with a sign that says game 3 games per hour
Alt: The Simpsons, scene from Barney 's bowling alley. Homer has had a perfect game, the two employees turn a key each to open a military style flap containing a button with 300 game written on it. One presses it, and a single white balloon with "300" written on it slowly floats down from a flap that opens in the ceiling in a rather anticlimactic kind of way.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Oh, you knew the drill, I'm sure. Crosswords, Chores, Coffee, Cat and Coding Challenge. All done in record time. Get me!
Was this article written by a Vulcan?
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Was this article written by a Vulcan?
I’ve made a start packing. Just need to test a couple more things and then we’re good to go.
Oh wow, this time next we'll be in full swing! Tickets for the Saturday are close to selling out - www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74558/Re... - alternatively, Sunday will be quieter, but still the same wonderful exhibitors - www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74909/re... - see you all next weekend!
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I’ve made a start packing. Just need to test a couple more things and then we’re good to go.
Today's been brought to you by the phrase "Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good". Or "Don't let an unattainable ideal prevent one from completing something that is already good or practical". I think Voltaire popularised that. That's him there.
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Today's been brought to you by the phrase "Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good". Or "Don't let an unattainable ideal prevent one from completing something that is already good or practical". I think Voltaire popularised that. That's him there.
Slept like a log last night. Feel like a lie in but Bramhall Repair Cafe is on this morning and I’ve not packed my tools yet. Sigh.
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Slept like a log last night. Feel like a lie in but Bramhall Repair Cafe is on this morning and I’ve not packed my tools yet. Sigh.
Going to take this apart now for the third and final time. I should have soldered a couple of single header pins in where the battery was, to make connecting one later more plug and play. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Was thinking about desoldering the battery on this Elonex today. Will probably leave it until after RetroFest now. Fixed the floppy space bar though. It has come unclipped.
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Going to take this apart now for the third and final time. I should have soldered a couple of single header pins in where the battery was, to make connecting one later more plug and play. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Did @chinnyvision.bsky.social write that headline?
ITV is in talks to sell its broadcast business to Comcast, the US giant behind Sky. The deal could reshape British television - but at what cost to ITV’s identity and independence?
ITV at a Crossroads: What a Comcast Takeover Could Mean for British Television
ITV is in talks to sell its broadcast business to Comcast, the US giant behind Sky. The deal could reshape British television - but at what cost to ITV’s identity and independence?
tvlive.site
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Did @chinnyvision.bsky.social write that headline?
Righto, better hit the sack. Got an early interview tomorrow that I don't want to mess up. Then I'll probably see if I can make a good C64 out of two bad ones.
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Righto, better hit the sack. Got an early interview tomorrow that I don't want to mess up. Then I'll probably see if I can make a good C64 out of two bad ones.
Me removing old batteries from computers like a pro.
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Me removing old batteries from computers like a pro.
What the dickens is a “Beaver Supermoon”? Has everyone finally lost their minds?
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
What the dickens is a “Beaver Supermoon”? Has everyone finally lost their minds?
One more config tested. Setting up the Spectrum Next and my Macbook on my iPhone hotspot. I can ping the Next and NextSync works just fine. Cool!
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
One more config tested. Setting up the Spectrum Next and my Macbook on my iPhone hotspot. I can ping the Next and NextSync works just fine. Cool!
Was thinking about desoldering the battery on this Elonex today. Will probably leave it until after RetroFest now. Fixed the floppy space bar though. It has come unclipped.
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Was thinking about desoldering the battery on this Elonex today. Will probably leave it until after RetroFest now. Fixed the floppy space bar though. It has come unclipped.
Clive Sinclair has read your posts
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Clive Sinclair has read your posts