MOS_8502 🇨🇦
@studio8502.ca
(He/Him) Retrocomputing Maker and Designer in Ontario, Canada.
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• https://ko-fi.com/mos_8502
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• https://ko-fi.com/mos_8502
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BTW if anyone in the Houston, TX area wants Mac SE and/or a G3 iMac for free, DM me and I'll put you in contact with the person with these, they're trying to save them from the dumpster.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
BTW if anyone in the Houston, TX area wants Mac SE and/or a G3 iMac for free, DM me and I'll put you in contact with the person with these, they're trying to save them from the dumpster.
Sometimes you have to do the boring thing. Today, my boring thing is verifying pinouts in symbols against the datasheets, like this 2MB SRAM chip.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sometimes you have to do the boring thing. Today, my boring thing is verifying pinouts in symbols against the datasheets, like this 2MB SRAM chip.
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I'd say it's very Murderbot where the corpos mine every scrap of personal info for something saleable, but as is typical of scifi it's commenting on current issues using brightly colored paint that shouts HERE I AM, THIS IS THE SHITTY THING HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES RIGHT NOW IRL
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I'd say it's very Murderbot where the corpos mine every scrap of personal info for something saleable, but as is typical of scifi it's commenting on current issues using brightly colored paint that shouts HERE I AM, THIS IS THE SHITTY THING HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES RIGHT NOW IRL
Conspiracy theory: Capitalism has prevented the creation and sale of a prosumer-level tape backup system because it wants all your data to be streamed in from a cloud it controls and can mine for its own purposes.
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Conspiracy theory: Capitalism has prevented the creation and sale of a prosumer-level tape backup system because it wants all your data to be streamed in from a cloud it controls and can mine for its own purposes.
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I’m considering having another go with patreon support for my retro programming projects as I build them.
Do you already support any creators on Patreon?
✅ Yes, regularly
🤔 Occasionally or in the past
🙂 Not yet, but I know what it is
😅 What’s Patreon?
Do you already support any creators on Patreon?
✅ Yes, regularly
🤔 Occasionally or in the past
🙂 Not yet, but I know what it is
😅 What’s Patreon?
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I’m considering having another go with patreon support for my retro programming projects as I build them.
Do you already support any creators on Patreon?
✅ Yes, regularly
🤔 Occasionally or in the past
🙂 Not yet, but I know what it is
😅 What’s Patreon?
Do you already support any creators on Patreon?
✅ Yes, regularly
🤔 Occasionally or in the past
🙂 Not yet, but I know what it is
😅 What’s Patreon?
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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
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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
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All I can say about PicoIDE is this:
It's going to be the biggest thing for vintage computers.
Ever.
Take Platinum Filament, Retrobrite, BlueSCSI, PicoGUS and PicoMicroMac combined. Then multiply that by about 20.
It's going to be the biggest thing for vintage computers.
Ever.
Take Platinum Filament, Retrobrite, BlueSCSI, PicoGUS and PicoMicroMac combined. Then multiply that by about 20.
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
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
All I can say about PicoIDE is this:
It's going to be the biggest thing for vintage computers.
Ever.
Take Platinum Filament, Retrobrite, BlueSCSI, PicoGUS and PicoMicroMac combined. Then multiply that by about 20.
It's going to be the biggest thing for vintage computers.
Ever.
Take Platinum Filament, Retrobrite, BlueSCSI, PicoGUS and PicoMicroMac combined. Then multiply that by about 20.
If you don't like the terms on offer, then don't accept the commission. Yeah, copyright costs more, as it should -- but you either want to work or you don't.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
If you don't like the terms on offer, then don't accept the commission. Yeah, copyright costs more, as it should -- but you either want to work or you don't.
What this "artists vs. publishers" discourse is missing: When I hire you to make something, it's you realizing my vision -- that is, in lawyer speak, you're playing with my IP. So you're damn right I want to own the result -- and obviously, that costs more, as is fair to the artist.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
What this "artists vs. publishers" discourse is missing: When I hire you to make something, it's you realizing my vision -- that is, in lawyer speak, you're playing with my IP. So you're damn right I want to own the result -- and obviously, that costs more, as is fair to the artist.
I said fuck it -- it's only ten dollars extra to boost the system to 2MB of SRAM.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I said fuck it -- it's only ten dollars extra to boost the system to 2MB of SRAM.
This is why I don't run off half cocked and produce designs as soon as I think they're done. I forget shit like everyone else. For example, the power switch, which I just now remembered is a thing.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is why I don't run off half cocked and produce designs as soon as I think they're done. I forget shit like everyone else. For example, the power switch, which I just now remembered is a thing.
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Mark Carney was talking about attracting foreign investment to Canada and listed reasons Canada is a good place to invest. A reporter pointed out that the U.S. has those things, too. What sets Canada apart? Carney responded, "Well, we have rule of law."
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Mark Carney was talking about attracting foreign investment to Canada and listed reasons Canada is a good place to invest. A reporter pointed out that the U.S. has those things, too. What sets Canada apart? Carney responded, "Well, we have rule of law."
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If I took this chart back in time and showed it to my grandad's friends who swore by their pickups - self-maintained, for hauling lumber and bricks to work and families to move house - they'd steal my machine and go all Terminator to prevent it from happening.
The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If I took this chart back in time and showed it to my grandad's friends who swore by their pickups - self-maintained, for hauling lumber and bricks to work and families to move house - they'd steal my machine and go all Terminator to prevent it from happening.
When I commission something it’s work for hire - I get the full copyright and the original paper art if any, they get a payment in cash, we ideally part ways friends at the end having helped each other.
Begging small press indie RPG people to understand you're not in the games industry you're in the publishing industry. You *need* to understand how licensing works if you're going to be hiring artists.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
When I commission something it’s work for hire - I get the full copyright and the original paper art if any, they get a payment in cash, we ideally part ways friends at the end having helped each other.
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I appreciate that del Toro's "FRANKENSTEIN" adheres expectedly to the "Which of them, truly, was the real monster?" thematic framing of all adaptations but also elects to basically start from a position of: "Him. The doctor. The name-in-title guy. Definitely him. Total bastard. No doubt."
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I appreciate that del Toro's "FRANKENSTEIN" adheres expectedly to the "Which of them, truly, was the real monster?" thematic framing of all adaptations but also elects to basically start from a position of: "Him. The doctor. The name-in-title guy. Definitely him. Total bastard. No doubt."
Here's the memory map for Sentinel 65X. This covers the 16MB address space. It's a bit quirky due to the way the baked-in address decoding works on the W65C265S, but it does work.
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Here's the memory map for Sentinel 65X. This covers the 16MB address space. It's a bit quirky due to the way the baked-in address decoding works on the W65C265S, but it does work.
I've been so buried, for so long, in trying to make a 65816-based system that people actually want to use, that now that a possible end to the "making" is in the offing, I don't even know how to feel about it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I've been so buried, for so long, in trying to make a 65816-based system that people actually want to use, that now that a possible end to the "making" is in the offing, I don't even know how to feel about it.
The real innovation Trump brought to politics is the discovery that if you crime fast enough and often enough, the system glitches out and rewards you instead of punishing you.
November 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The real innovation Trump brought to politics is the discovery that if you crime fast enough and often enough, the system glitches out and rewards you instead of punishing you.
It's hard to say that you're amazed that $BADTHING hasn't happened, because people will assume you mean that you think $BADTHING *should* happen, that you support it, when in fact you feel *surprise* not *disappointment* that it hasn't.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It's hard to say that you're amazed that $BADTHING hasn't happened, because people will assume you mean that you think $BADTHING *should* happen, that you support it, when in fact you feel *surprise* not *disappointment* that it hasn't.
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There's a house I pass by frequently that's always covered in Trump decor, and they just added a brand new "Fuck Biden" flag, and it feels like spotting one of those Japanese soldiers on a remote island who didn't know WWII was over for decades.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
There's a house I pass by frequently that's always covered in Trump decor, and they just added a brand new "Fuck Biden" flag, and it feels like spotting one of those Japanese soldiers on a remote island who didn't know WWII was over for decades.
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if you have Religion Voltron out there protesting you have fucked up bigly
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
if you have Religion Voltron out there protesting you have fucked up bigly
Let's say, hypothetically, that the eventual production run of Sentinel 65X units with integral keyboard is 20 units. That's 20x63 key switches.
Where's a good place to get a bulk discount on authentic cherry switches? I don't fancy paying $0.80 each.
Where's a good place to get a bulk discount on authentic cherry switches? I don't fancy paying $0.80 each.
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Let's say, hypothetically, that the eventual production run of Sentinel 65X units with integral keyboard is 20 units. That's 20x63 key switches.
Where's a good place to get a bulk discount on authentic cherry switches? I don't fancy paying $0.80 each.
Where's a good place to get a bulk discount on authentic cherry switches? I don't fancy paying $0.80 each.
It turns out, due to setup and assembly costs and various fees and tariffs, that having Sentinel 65X be one big PCB with the keyboard integral is much cheaper than having it be two boards connected by a cable.
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It turns out, due to setup and assembly costs and various fees and tariffs, that having Sentinel 65X be one big PCB with the keyboard integral is much cheaper than having it be two boards connected by a cable.
The only, *only* reason I get to put hands to keyboard and mouse and design things like Sentinel 65X is because people like you donate and support me via Ko-Fi and Patreon. So thank you, you made this possible.
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The only, *only* reason I get to put hands to keyboard and mouse and design things like Sentinel 65X is because people like you donate and support me via Ko-Fi and Patreon. So thank you, you made this possible.
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