It's alive!
Posted: 22 Feb 2020, 14:51
Hey!
After a bit of help from Marcel - I had reversed a diode and somehow missed it multiple times - my Gigatron is alive!
You can see it here, running TinyBASIC v2, with a recreation of the first BASIC program I ever wrote on an old C64 when I was a little kid (actually not that many years ago! guess how many).
Next steps? Studying it, writing some software, getting an EEPROM (I don't have a writer, any suggestions?) and playing with native code! Maybe building the expander board from Marcel's hackaday. Commodore Datasettes?
In the meanwhile, thank you for this awesome kit!
After a bit of help from Marcel - I had reversed a diode and somehow missed it multiple times - my Gigatron is alive!
You can see it here, running TinyBASIC v2, with a recreation of the first BASIC program I ever wrote on an old C64 when I was a little kid (actually not that many years ago! guess how many).
Next steps? Studying it, writing some software, getting an EEPROM (I don't have a writer, any suggestions?) and playing with native code! Maybe building the expander board from Marcel's hackaday. Commodore Datasettes?
In the meanwhile, thank you for this awesome kit!