Retro Computing (16)

Paula

LT6502b complete!

Well, I had a chance to get my head sorted and I finally finished the "b" version of the LT6502 Here you can see it next to the first version, I changed my mind about the case and went for translucent orange, it's way more…

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Paula

LT6502b the end is getting near

To be honest May and June haven't been good months for my mental health, I'm not going to go any further into it than to say I've run out of beans and things have been going very slowly. BUT, I have made some progress, in…

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Paula

LT6502b progress

A lot has happened with LT6502b since my last post. Firstly the WiFi modem is now working, I finished the UART in a CPLD and it works a treat :) Secondly it's now running at 10MHz, I can't seem to get much above that, yet.

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Paula

LT6502b

As much as I love my 6502 laptop, it felt a bit "chunky" at nearly 75mm deep and I really wanted a bigger screen as 9" is a bit teeny. So I set about improving on that and the LT6502b project is underway, The main…

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Paula

LT6502 is assembled

I give you the very chonky 6502 based laptop; It has been quite the challenge to get this up and running, the main challenges code wise were; 1) Getting the screen to work, and getting scrolling to work (that was way more effort than I…

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Paula

LT6502

Building on the PC6502 system I decided to make a laptop 6502 system. I think there's something nice about having a portable retro system that is fully self contained. It's going very well so far. It's been quite a steep learning curve. I've been remembering…

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