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Sat 2004-02-14 13:46

And that's been another good week.

Admittedly two of the three major reasons it's been good were the same reasons as last week (finally polished off the nasty maths at work, and actually released PuTTY 0.54); but. The third. The third reason this has been a good week is that Owen discovered FUSE, a Spectrum emulator which is able to run on PS2 Linux. I've been looking for one of those ever since I got PS2 Linux in the first place, since obviously if you're going to play Spectrum games you want to be playing them in your lounge on your TV rather than in a tiny little window on a PC in the study. So I'm happy.

It took a bit of hackery to get it to support the PS2 controller, but nothing too difficult; so I've just spent the entire morning playing some of my old favourites from 1986ish. The only reason I've stopped now is that I've bruised my thumb through overuse of the controller; what I really need is a rubber-keyed Spectrum keyboard with a USB interface :-)

Now I should probably eat lunch, before I forget…

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[identity profile] deliberateblank.livejournal.comSat 2004-02-14 06:26
Find a cheap second hand Speccy and a small PIC with a USB port and write an interface between the two? Either from the rear port (requires software on the Speccy too, the interface is probably harder - can Spectrums auto-load programs from the rear port?), or gut the speccy and interface direct with the keyboard. Or collar Thomas Womack into writing an FPGA to do it for you.
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[identity profile] pjc50.livejournal.comSat 2004-02-14 09:19
I happen to have both a generic USB I/O controller with linux support and a PIC programmer lying around if you want to try building one. :)

It would be interesting (albeit useless) to try building a speccy from modern microcontrollers. One to emulate the CPU and one to emulate the IO would probably be enough ..
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[identity profile] acronym.livejournal.comSat 2004-02-14 10:30
Ah, Fuse. Another fine product of Cambridge PhD student slacking off. :)

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