junkman @junkman@mastodon.sdf.org

Chrome don't make it go.
But it helps with reception 🤔

These are tash but I think the indiglo electroluminescent panel looks cool.

This latest CB fad has to be the dumbest thing I have seen yet.
...I want it lol
Now where did I put my old Cobra29 🤔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jazi1fVrZY4

Was a good mail box day today 😀
#sdf

Well mostly good..the power bill was in there too 😞
#IhopeItsNotHigh
#itsHigh

Finally found a good spot to stick this Reddy Kilowatt sticker a friend made 😏⚡️

Well I got some 27c64's.. it at least does /something/ now 😆

Well I got a EPROM burner and rigged it work on the 2364 rom I pulled. I see 8 bytes that don't match the ROM images I find on the internet. I put my read image in an emulator and it never boots. The live memory map shows it stuck in a bootloop at about the same rhythm I am seeing on the scope. I think I am on the right path 🤞

Well RAM is ruled out. I think I am dealing with a bad ROM. D3 off the ROM seems to have lots of 0's. Also I am told there are HALT instructions in the rom code but the /HALT pin never drops on the Z80. What ever code it is executing sure doesn't seem right. Sockets installed. Ordered a 2364 to 27c64 EPROM adapter from RETRO Innovations. Now to wait for the mailman 😴

Who knew such a little computer could be such a big pain 🙄

Cyber chatting on SDF with the CoCo2 listening to @snowdusk_ 's IWM show

Sadly gopher segfaults if you set your terminal to 'dumb'. Happens on SDF and my local machine. But i managed to figure out you can set up your own local terminfo database with tic. Just name it ~/.terminfo.cdb in your home directory. Now I have fancy screen controls for my vic20 and CoCo on my sdf account. Gopher and lynx now run but a total mess. I guess they never tested for 22x23 or 32x16 screens 🤔

I figured it out. The Tandy COMPAC terminal program doesn't reset the VGU when it loads. So the basic POKES for lower case and alternate color mode stick 🙂
POKE &H0167,&H39
POKE &HFF22,&H78

Surfing the information superhighway at 300 baud. I wish i could find a terminal program that supports the true lowercase my "2b" machine can do.

I'm on the internet! Well SDF's COM chat at least. 🤔

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I got my CoCo SDC from Zippster today and it works great. My first computer (COCO2) is going to get a lot more use now because of this thing. Just copy .DSK files to the sd card and you can mount them with out fuss. Even multi-disk OS9 SIERIA games work with out issue. The firmware lets you manipulate the images right from the CoCo so it doesn't need to be hooked to a PC or anything.

The coco's radioactive green looks glorious on a 55" LG 4K TV 😆

https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/coco-sdc/

Well I now have 1345 wikipedias and lots of news. 😀

After fixing a power issue the dreamcatcher seems very stable. Cheap USB phone chargers wont cut it. After fixing that its run few months now with no more reboots or hangs.