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A project log for Blinkencard - Pocket Altair 8800

'70s microcomputer meets '80s handheld game

ajlittajlitt 05/25/2021 at 17:080 Comments

I haven't shown the Blinkencard doing its thing, so here's a console session over WiFi:

The initial '.' prompt is the Turnkey monitor - a CLI for peeking and poking at memory on Altair systems that don't have blinkenlights and switches. Here I'm running the BASIC ROM at address 0 (J000000) and entering a simple BASIC program.

The 'Reloading config' line comes from my telnet server which catches [CTRL-A] + R causing the ESP32 to reload the FPGA image and reset the emulation.

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