Jeff Jetton

35mm print of "Apollo 13".

Does the Atari VCS/2600 count? If so, that.

If not, the Atari 400.

Coca-Coli

We drove 750+ miles to Mackinac City, took the ferry, and stayed a few nights at the Grand Hotel... all because of "Somewhere In Time".

The island did NOT disappoint. Wonderful place!

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY SEES SLUGGO DOWNTOWN NANCY: DID YOU GET THAT CONCERTINA FOR CSHRISTMAS? SLUGGO: YEP -- AND I'M GONNA MAKE MONEY WITH IT P2- SLUGGO HAS MADE A SIGN THAT READS… DEPOSIT PENNY TO HEAR MUSIC, SLUGGO HAS A TIN CUP SITTING ON A CRATE P3- SLUGGO IS PLAYING HIS CONCERTINA MUCH TO THE DISPROVAL OF PEOPLE PASSING BY FIRST MAN:AWFUL SECOND MAN:PHOOEY WOMAN:TERRIBLE P4- SLUGGO HAS CHANGED HIS SIGN, IT NOW READS…DEPOSIT PENNY TO STOP MUSIC SLUGGO IS NOW PLAYING THE CONCERTINA WITH A GRIM EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 29,1947
Note: A concertina is a hand-held, bellows-driven musical instrument with buttons on each end, similar to an accordion

Yup, concertinas and accordions are both part of the "free reed aerophone" family. The main difference is that the buttons on a concertina are pushed in from the sides, in the same directions the bellows move, whereas the buttons/keys of an accordion are pushed perpendicular to the bellows.

YouTube video by M's Music The Last Time - The Andrew Oldham Orchestra

Well then you might enjoy this orchestral cover of the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time", which is where the Verve got it from: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yrl...

That's a 12, and yes, it's gorgeous!

Nice! Reminds me a bit of The Hues Corporation's "Rock the Boat" for some reason.

That is stupid and also I'm stealing it.

Nope. Well, not counting the PiDP-8 kit I bought and put together.

But I'm working on a 6502 homebrew that doesn't have enough keys for hex entry, so I wrote an octal monitor for it.

Technically the sunrise isn't affected either way. It happens when it happens and doesn't care whether we call that moment 7:00 or 8:00 or "Gary".

DST is just everyone doing everything an hour earlier and tricking themselves that they're not by changing the clock. (Which is kinda dumb.)

Just four times better.

It's in binary.

Ooooh! Where'd you find a 6502 FOCAL?

Yup! With a 12-bit word length and six-bit character encoding often being used, octal was a much better choice than hex. Plus the PDP-8 instruction set lent itself well to three-bit groupings.

A table of 6502 CPU machine language instructions along with their octal opcodes

I'm probably the only person on the planet who currently needs this, but here's a 6502 Opcode Reference... in octal!

#ChuckPeddleDay

Photo of an electronics breadboard with several IC chips and wires. The chip in the upper left is a 65C02 CPU. An alphanumeric LCD screen in the lower right is displaying "Happy Chuck Peddle Day!"

Celebrating #ChuckPeddleDay with a 65C02.

People want artists, but don't know what it takes to become one. Keep going.

You mean "reduced-price candy day"?

The girl looks like she's holding a cellphone.

The 1967 black-and-white photo "The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet", showing a 17-year-old girl holding a chrysanthemum in front of a line of bayonet-wielding soldiers, during an anti-war march in Washington, DC.

Our generation's "The Ultimate Confrontation"?

Imagine if you went to see a play in the theater, and every few minutes it just *stopped*. And you had to wait while the actors set up for the next few lines of dialog, and the director chatted with the lead about motivation, and commentators ad-libbed to the audience about how the scene was going.

BBC Micro Compendium : Jeremy Ruston : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Book with information on 6502 programming, on computer arithmetic, with two language implementations and a thoroughly annotated disassembly of Acorn's BBC...

It's on Archive.org of course. But it would be cool to have the dead-tree version!

archive.org/details/BBCM...

Bayes City Rollers?

I thought EOR affects N and Z just like LDA?

Not strictly for 6502, and maybe obvious, but...

If the last thing your subroutine does before RTSing is JSR to another subroutine, you can replace the JSR with a JMP and omit the RTS, saving a byte and several cycles.

Black and white photo of singer/pianist Les McCann on stage, singing and playing a Fender Rhodes electric piano with an Arp Pro Soloist synthesizer on top.

Les McCann too!

I once toyed with the idea of using indentation in 6502 assembly as Pythonesque way to branch without labels.

I started on a proof-of-concept preprocessor to read the weird code and turn it into standard assembly. Not sure why I abandoned it... might revisit it one of these days.

Photo of a homemade 6502-based computer, built on a breadboard. There is a 16-key membrane keypad and a small LCD display connected to it. The display is showing the status of the CPU registers.

Celebrating the 6502's 50th anniversary the best way I know how...

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.