Back in the early part of last year, my first frustrated attempts at connecting my Psions to the RC2014 Z80 kit computer ultimately led to building the Sidecar, a small, battery powered Linux computer designed for serial use. The early experiments used a Pi Zero as a go-between between the...
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Online Psion Document Conversion With PsiConv
TLDR; you can convert Series 5 Word documents to Text, HTML5 or Markdown
using this online service. No guarantees
are made, and for transparency you can view the code here.
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RC2014 Emulation for Development
Carting your precious RC2014 isn’t always practical.
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Coding
Getting Started With z80asm on the RC2014
Happy New Year.
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Coding
In The Dark - A Rogue-like game for old and new systems
TLDR; I’ve released the first version of my rogue-like game - “In The Dark” for CP/M, DOS and modern systems. You can
download the binaries for each system and source code
from GitHub. I hope you enjoy it.
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Coding
The Rough and Ready Guide To Getting Your RC2014 Pro Online
Back in t’day (drops 20p in t’swear jar), before the advent of the Internet as we know it in its current form, computers talked to each other using BBS software and terminal programs. You dialled the remote machine, the modem on the other side would pick up and a conversation...
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Making
RC2014 Pro, Bowie, and a Merry Christmas
I’d like you to meet “Bowie”, our newest RC2014, with a focus on “Sound and Vision”.
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The Sidecar for Psion - A PPP Modem and Linux Terminal for RS232 devices
RS232 and Null Modem HAT for the Pi Zero
Sponsored Post: - PCBWay (pronounced PCBWaaaaaaaayyyyyy), reached out and asked if I had any 3d printing projects
they could help with. I said no, but I did have an electronics project I needed PCBs for. They kindly sponsored the first
iteration of PCBs for this project.
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TinyCPM - CP/M on a Tiny 2040
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