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by bobbi
05 Jul 2019, 21:19
Forum: Kit assembly gallery
Topic: Another Gigatron blinks into life!
Replies: 3
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Re: Another Gigatron blinks into life!

Finished it off today. VGA, sound and Pluggy McPlugface are all working :)

I spent an hour or two chasing down some of my bad solder joints. The system seems to be reliable now!

The Gigatron is very cool!!
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by bobbi
05 Jul 2019, 00:58
Forum: Hardware and software hacking
Topic: Eightball compiler targeting Gigatron - initial thoughts
Replies: 1
Views: 2111

Eightball compiler targeting Gigatron - initial thoughts

Now I have my Gigatron running, I am thinking of some interesting projects. Over the last couple of years I have been hacking on a programming language implementation for a novel language that I ended up calling Eightball (since it targets 8 bit machines.) It lives here: https://github.com/bobbimann...
by bobbi
05 Jul 2019, 00:41
Forum: Kit assembly gallery
Topic: Another Gigatron blinks into life!
Replies: 3
Views: 6615

Another Gigatron blinks into life!

First of all I would like to compliment Walter and Marcel for creating such an amazing kit. Every aspect of the production from the manual, the PCB and even the wooden box are beautifully thought out and perfectly executed. After a bit of a delay in Canada Customs, the package arrived at the end of ...