Pico MZ-80K and the RC2014 RP2040 VGA terminal card
A new year and I’m back to tinkering with the Pico MZ-80K emulator. I’ve started work on support for the RC2014’s RP2040 VGA terminal card. I’d not had very much
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Category: RC2014
The Valley at 42
It’s 42 years since Computing Today first published The Valley. It set a new standard for magazine type-in games as the code is designed to be portable, well structured and
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PuTTY configuration for the RC2014 ESP8266 module
Another note to self rather than anything else – a PuTTY version 0.78 configuration that works well for an RC2014 running CP/M from the Micro SD card and SIO/2 module
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The square root of 32 is not 4.02
A week ago I noticed that I had a problem with my CBASIC prime number generator running on an RC2040. My first thought was that I’d messed up the algorithm
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How to transfer software to a RC2014 – reliably!
Update: 06/01/2026 Something seems to have changed in the way the Raspberry Pi sets up serial ports by default between the time I wrote this article and later versions of
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Advent of Code 2023: CBASIC Compiler
After my post on Turbo Pascal et al, someone suggested that I try using the Digital Research CBASIC compiler – so I have done! The CBASIC dialect seems like a
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Advent of Code 2023: Pascal, Modula-2 and Aztec C
It’s now the end of January and I’m still obsessed. Not so much with the Advent of Code problems themselves, but seeing what solutions might look like in other languages
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Advent of Code 2023
In December I took part in the annual ‘Advent of Code‘ event. I originally wrote my solutions using Free Pascal on a Raspberry Pi 4 and ended up with 42
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Big Integers in Turbo Pascal 3.01A (6)
22nd November 2023: This post has been sat in my drafts folder since the start of August … I really must learn to finish what I start! While much of
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Big Integers in Turbo Pascal 3.01A (5)
In the mid 1980s I owned a rear-engined Skoda Rapid. It had a ‘go faster’ stripe on each side, which made no difference to the underlying power of the 1.3
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