... Unsubstantiated! Someone claiming to be their daughter claimed that Dubois & McNamara were a husband and wife team. Like that guy claiming to be Leon Young...
It's the CIA and a conspiracy! You see, I am in fact Dick Smith and have been secretly watching these messages to gather information on you all bwuahahahaha!!!...
How do we find an email address for this bloke? I want me $15.00 back! ($15.00 to a 12 year old in 1986 is... what?, must be close to $50.00 now eh?)...
I'm still trying to get ahold of a VZ to use for building the sound board I was talking about (anyone have a working VZ300 for sale?) but I can make a...
... I made lots of smoke once with one of these. Got into it rather big time when I was first introduced to MOD's, FastTracker v2 and Scream Tracker v2 back in...
I tried firing up my vz300 a couple days ago and got no ticker...I sure hope its the power supply and not the vz or I'll be trolling ebay myself. There's a...
Guy Thomason
guy_thomason@...
Aug 3, 2006 12:40 pm
4745
... <snip> ... This is pretty much how sound on the Tandy Color Computer was generated except it has D/A converter built in. 2 of the 8 bits were used for the...
There's another design in the January 1981 issue. It's pretty simple. I uploaded a diagram of a version with a selectable port address to the files area. ... ...
... anyone ... now? lotta ... I just renewed my subscription for Retro Gamer. I read it cover-to-cover. The VZ's got a mention in the "Global Gaming" article...
Am gonna get me one of these - basically a gameboy advance on steroids that runs linux and has free development tools, so people have ported over all the...
Guy Thomason
guy_thomason@...
Aug 8, 2006 6:38 am
4750
The GP2X (aka GP32X or Game Park 32) is pretty cool. The number of games and emulators available is amazing and you can write about anything you want for it....
... Mmmm, Heh heh! I tried that once, didn't like it. Started doing vz@work. Something then happened (bored@work), and now I try and do lots and lots of...
... Doing some more reading on this last night, some uber-nerd has ported mess to it with drivers for the coco, ti994a, colecovision, apple 2 and I think a...
Guy Thomason
guy_thomason@...
Aug 8, 2006 11:43 pm
4753
... I had a whole 2 weeks where I was doing vz@work, my manager knew I was on the bench so I'd even walk over and show him the progress. I put in my "career...
Guy Thomason
guy_thomason@...
Aug 8, 2006 11:46 pm
4754
... From: Guy Thomason guy_thomason@... Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:39:18 +1000 To: vzemu@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [vzemu] Re: OT: GP2X ... Doing...
Funny how the first home computer with a RISC cpu dropped out of the PC wars years ago but the CPU they created for it is now one of the most popular chips for...
... I imagine he's (correctly) referring to the Acorn machines which were much earlier. I seem to recall look at the Archimedes A3000 when I bought my first...
... were much ... my ... Yup. I mentioned it because the ARM CPU in the GP2X machines is a newer version of the CPU in the Acorn computers. Probably much...
Well the thing arrived on friday, and it didn't disappoint. Loaded up all my favourite mame games and they play perfectly with sound. The orientation of the...
Guy Thomason
guy_thomason@...
Aug 13, 2006 11:44 pm
4759
The last couple of days I've been studying the 6502. It is my sincere belief the z80 shits all over it, regardless of cpu cycles per instruction. I'd have to...
Guy Thomason
guy_thomason@...
Aug 18, 2006 1:57 pm
4760
... sincere belief ... I'd ... take me Actually I'll be happy to discuss CPU vs CPU or system vs system but it's probably not the mine's better than yours...
Two words: Address arithmetic. The 6502's pointers stored in zero page, and indexing, were just too darn useful. The z80 had some nice features too. From my...
... I think you are referring to indexed-indirect addressing. You have a table of pointers in page 0 and index within the table with the index register. That...
James, An excellent writeup, unlike my original post where I really was drunk out of my skull. I also think I can sing and fight when I'm on the bourbon. If I...
Guy Thomason
guy_thomason@...
Aug 22, 2006 4:42 am
4766
My cat's breath smells like catfood! ... From: Guy Thomason guy_thomason@... Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:41:09 +1000 To: vzemu@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
Here is the PC version of the centronics port D/A converter for generating sound I mentioned. The parts for any centronics port should be the same. If there's...
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