I am by no means any professional programmer, but I have coded 6502 since the late 80s and can safely say that I have a lot of experience. My main focus throughout all these years has been to reverse other …
Some rarely used 6502 aspects Read more →
Being rather tech savvy but still not working with software, the entire field of source repos and management of them has been a field where I felt my competence was really blurry. Adding to this, I hear from many sources …
Building Vice emulator – NO black magic needed! Read more →
After discussions in a Facebook group I thought I’d write something more on copy protections on disk. The general starting point is the disk is a sheet of magnetic media put into a mechanism to read it. The mechanism has …
Running into the issue of having source code in a binary format and having no clue of how the editor worked, made me look high and low on the web, with no luck. In the end Uwe and Jan helped …
Professional PDS docs Read more →
Digital rot eats disks and tapes from the glory days of the Commodore64. If you sit on the only copy of something, you are responsible to ensure that it’s not forever lost. This is what to do! A) Preservation tool …
Preserve your Commodore64 media Read more →
Which was the best cracking cartridge on the Commodore 64? I come across this question irritatingly often, and usually at my mobile, where writing a longer text is not really an option. So I’ll spill the beans here in order to have a …
Dear Fitbit, Me and my family are dedicated users of your products. The ecosystem is great and when things work as they should, it’s simply swell. But sometimes you make it really difficult for me to like you… The Flex …
Fitbit – please get it right Read more →
Fitbit Surge Registering as interested in the Fitbit Surge I got the oportunity to order it just before Christmas and have been using it since. These are my initial findings; It’s bigger that it looks. The wrisband on normal watches …
A key part of the Local Area Network in a home is the router, that is the multi purpose unit that likely cpontrols much of the traffic between the units. Even if the modem provided by the ISP has a number …
RT-AC66U Router – Rescue and running Tomato Read more →
The TG789vn is a common product amongst ISPs. If you want to use it only as an ATA box (for the phone) and as modem then that makes sense as other units have better functionality and more flexible user interfaces. Setting …