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Saturday, 17 May 2025

SIBlings! 80386 Addressing Modes Simplified

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I can't believe it's taken me over 30 years to get around to actually learning the 80386 addressing modes. So, long in fact that the...
Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Burn's Night Is The Coldest

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In winter I usually mark off 4 dates as the yearly cycle starts transforming into a more positive outlook. I call these 'Milestones'...
Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Basic Blitz: A Surprisingly Addictive VIC-20 Remake

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The game Blitz was written and self-published by Simon Taylor for the unexpanded VIC-20 in 1981, then later sold to Mastertronic. https://ww...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Wobbly-Blue: An Optical Illusion on a ZX Spectrum And VIC-20

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 Introduction I recently came across an interesting optical illusion whereby a speckled-blue sphere on a random checkerboard pattern will ap...
Tuesday, 19 November 2024

The Mythical Mac 256K

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Introduction This MacGUI blog post covers the boot process for the early System Software on a Mac 512K (or Mac 128K). In part of it, he tal...
Sunday, 17 November 2024

Saving Europe-ASAP (Ally State Access Privileges)

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 In 1939, 85 years ago at the time of writing, the UK government declared war on the Nazi rĂ©gime in order to defend the sovereignty of Polan...
Wednesday, 24 July 2024

Why does Sin(a)≈a for small a in radians?

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 Introduction When we were introduced to calculus during 'A' levels (actually 'AO' levels), an investigation into differenti...
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