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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 1d

More work on the #RC2014 NES controller #RetroChallenge this evening.

I have designed a circuit and PCB that should allow me to bit-bang the NES controller from my RC2014 computer.

www.robertprice.co.uk/robblog/rc20...

RC2025 - Part 2 - Designing a PCB for bit-banging a NES controller - Robert Price

Designing a PCB to allow me to bit-bang an NES controller on my RC2014 computer.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 2d

More details on the #RetroChallenge can be found on their website.

www.retrochallenge.org

RetroChallenge

Welcome to the RetroChallenge Official Website!

www.retrochallenge.org

Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 2d

It's a great bit of kit. I'm using mine at the moment to take part in this year's #RetroChallenge.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 2d

It's official, I'm taking part in this year's #RetroChallenge

I'm planning on getting an NES controller working with my #RC2014 computer.

www.robertprice.co.uk/robblog/rc20...

RC2025 - Part 1 - How does the NES controller send data? - Robert Price

For this year’s RetroChallenge, I am hoping to interface an NES / Famicon controller to my RC2014 computer. The NES controller has 8 buttons: Up, Down, Left, Right, Select, Start, A, and B. The cable ...

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 3d

There is probably a good reason it’s in the charity shop.

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Infamous Trademark Troll Tim Langdell Is Back, And He Wants You To Buy His Dusty Old ZX Spectrum Book

"It seemed an ideal time"

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 3d

It reminds me of this sketch…

youtube.com/shorts/SMtA6...

Tim Vine vs Train Prices—Lee Mack Can’t Handle It! 🚆💸 #shorts

YouTube video by VixAffix

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 4d

A very short intro can be OK, such as Happy Little Diodes or L Break Into Program. These are just a few seconds long.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 15d

That’s my #RC2014Assembly name badge module built and working.

The LEDs are connected to the bus so I can see what is happening in my #RC2014 in real time. I did have to remove the LED on the RX pin for it to work when using a serial terminal.

This is a great little module.

RC2014 Assembly name badge module plugged into a RC2014 Picasso computer:

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 18d

We play “green car” on long car journeys with my youngest. You get a point for every green car you see. We also allowed the number on any bus we saw to be added to the total. However, he smashed our scores after seeing two number 700 buses in Chichester.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 20d

It was a great day @peteronion.bsky.social. Hopefully this will become an annual event.

Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 21d

On a train now. See you all in roughly 4 hours time.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 21d

Let me know if you need me to test anything else.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 21d

I didn't realise the two email fields have to be the same and were used for confirmation. Once I entered the same email address it submitted and I got the "thank you" message.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 21d

It looks like your ".inputerr" is lower priority than the ".order input" selector, so it isn't showing. The lazy fix for that would be to add an !important next to the red.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 21d

I tried to submit, but it wouldn’t. If it comes though, disregard the pre-order. I already have my microbeast.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 21d

What problem are you seeing? It renders OK on my wife’s iPad when I look.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · 22d

Wouldn’t that just be a biscuit Bounty?

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Aug 25

I used to love these. I’d completely forgotten about them until your post.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Aug 23

The increasingly far right seem to have infiltrated pretty much everything now - even a political party led by a former human rights lawyer who used to let refugees sleep on his couch makes “a country of strangers” speeches - racism and hatred emboldened every day

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Aug 8

The EHRC is not changing course on their bathroom ban.

They don’t care what the consultation said.

So what happens now? 🧵

archive.ph/inGpF

Ban trans women from single-sex spaces, equality watchdog to say

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Aug 1

Nice, I’m over in Eastbourne. My crate of empties are all blue labels.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Aug 1

I do love a good Harvey’s. Has to be either Best or Star of Eastbourne.

Are you local to Lewes?

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

I was just googling them. I’ve never seen so many apple varieties before. I’ll have to get down early to next market as I missed them last month.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

I can’t make it this week to buy any at the market, but those veggies look good.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

I can also recommend using the bustimes.org.uk website from your mobile phone. You can look at the location of the buses in real time, so you know if the bus is delayed or not.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

It would be a lot cheaper to get an East Sussex Day Rider Ticket for £6.10. This gives you unlimited travel on all buses in East Sussex, so you can hop on and off as you please. We used it to get to Rye from Eastbourne and back, took a couple of hours, but our 8 year old absolutely loved it.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Jul 20

They are probably too busy designing fjords.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Jul 16

Is it a genuine chip? Lots of fakes out there.

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Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Jul 14

Very nice! I’ll have to keep an eye out for a copy.

Robert Price @robertprice.bsky.social · Jul 14

Damn, another book to add to my wish list. I’ve not seen the “for humans” one before.

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