Gigatron Hackers

Here is the first release of Manic Miner written by Mathew Smith in 1983 for the Spectrum. It requires a 64k Gigatron. Wonderful! Many congrats, it's been a journey I believe :-) Unfortunately I haven't got a Gigatron here with the correct specs. Maybe somebody can upload a video of the gameplay?

That is fantastic. I just ran it on my hardware. Marcel would be chuffed to bits. MSCP was a bit part of his life.

Manic miner!! Looking forward to this!

Nicely etched. And a blue PCB.. I hadn't seen a blue one before.

Indeed I would see it as a nice way of having Marcel's work finalised in ROMv5a, which means that the new rom would be ROMv6.
But I can also live with it being called ROMv5. If Marcel had not passed away, it would have become ROMv5.

But before doing this, there are a number of questions that are best answered by the community. Is there agreement on the idea of releasing a ROMv5 at this point? There's enough that's happened to the ROM to release a stable version. How should it be called: ROMv5? ROMv5b? I'd call it either ROMv5 ...

The are no design files available for the original wooden case that we used to ship. In this thread, you'll find some inspiration. Basically, it's just a box with holes in the back for usb/sound/vga/controller.

I stumbled upon https://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texa ... first.html

It's about the first microprocessor. I am posting it here, as it also discusses the speed (at the time) of MOS CPU's versus CPU's based on multiple TTL chips.

Tweaking the presentation until T-5min... been there, done that

You spoke very kindly of Marcel and I too find it a comforting thought that his work has inspired others.

Nice! Kudos for doing a whole talk with just one slide. I once did a presentation on TinyBSD, booting TinyBSD into RAM from a 3.5" floppy, then putting in a second floppy holding JPGs of the slides to show. The 486 I ran it on did not have a coprocessor so they loaded really slowly :-) I enjoye...