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YouTube video by 6502Nerd Bringing blinkenlights to life with a 74HC161 counter!

Happy Valentines fellow nerds - here are some more blinkenlights to brighten your already great day😍
Now with a 74HC161 counter for additional dynamics!🤓
youtu.be/FOEHbET1tww

YouTube video by 6502Nerd Back to the future - Blinkenlights (again) on my homebrew computer!

Blinkenlights are back - computers seem more 'alive' when they're flickering lights at you, and if you know what to look for it can even give an idea of what the machine is doing!
youtu.be/8r3NSY7bM_w

YouTube video by 6502Nerd Tweak to my pseudo 3D rolling landscape - new backdrop using a proper Death Star style bitmap

Doh meant to post YT link to show tweaked background graphics with Death Star rising up from the horizon!
#deathstar #retrocomputers
youtu.be/4v69sHju7rg

Tweaked the game a bit - improved the backdrop graphics with a proper Death Star that come up over the horizon! This will go up on GitHub soon.
I think it looks a lot better and quicker to draw than the method of drawing circles to make a Death Star!
#8bitcoders #mos6502 #oric #retrocomputers

Made some cosmetic tweaks - new backdrop graphics and animation. Proper Death Star vs drawing one using circles!
#oric #retroprogramming #8bitcode #MOS6502

YouTube video by 6502Nerd Oric Atmos C and assembler game - Invaders 3D

Port of a game from dflat to native Oric - easier for folks to try using emulator or even real machine.
I've made some improvements too e.g. the game music which is a decent rendition (not by me!) of a legendary electronic track.
#programming #8bitcoders
youtu.be/jMgaQnY0t24

if I were a graffiti artist... #amiga

Now if it was showing WB1.2 on the label (that's what came with my first A500 in 1988), I'd want to protect your graffiti as much as any Banksy! 🤓🤘🏽🤘🏽

a little girl is holding a cup of coffee and pointing at the camera . ALT: a little girl is holding a cup of coffee and pointing at the camera .

Woah nice one! 🤘🏽🤘🏽

Oric says - happy Christmas!🎄🎅🎄🎅🎶🎶

Oric-1 computer

Oric-1 computer

Work has been keeping me crazy busy. But had a nice surprise today at an event hosted by the National Edge AI Hub at @newcastleuni.bsky.social

They have a small display of computing history and I was delighted that my dear Oric-1 features!🤓🤗

#Oric-1

Retro Computer Calendar 2026 by Loudscotsbloke Retro Computer Calendar 2026

I have once again created a charity Retro Computer calendar for 2026!! Last year you helped raise £44 for charity by downloading my calendar. Let's try and beat that this year!! 🙏 Thank you!!

loudscotsbloke.itch.io/retro-comput...

Thanks matey!

YouTube video by 6502Nerd Oric Tetris - 8 bit retro programming in C

Tetris converted from dflat to C using OSDK toolset - now that's much smoother!
#mos6502 #c-programming #retro-coding #retro-computing

youtu.be/cZ3usNDNKP4

YouTube video by 6502Nerd Programming in C for the Oric Atmos 6502 microcomputer

Programming 8 bit games in C targeting the Oric 6502 based micro.
Here's one example converted from dflat a BASIC like language I developed for my homebrew computer 🤓
youtu.be/wLsLQ_LsYGU

I remember seeing that at the time and thinking it was a bit unusual Paul Hardcastle's track being in the charts!

That helps a lot 👍🏽

Never coded in Ada but I remember thinking it was decent and good for real time programming if I recall correctly?

Does micropython work well in terms of performance?

We learnt Pascal for A level at college. It was designed for education so it's decent I think.
But by my second year I was using C on my Amiga A500 and I liked that more!

My favorite is C/C++
Pascal is nice too.
For retro kicks 68000 and 6502 assembly language is great.
BASIC is nostalgic but not as interesting as I found it way back when..

Tbf I can see how bad that is compared to the crt tv RF display.. So indeed as I suspected alas I do not have an old school crt tv.. Yet! 🤓

Haven't seen an RF display for years. I think I do have an older lcd TV that supports it but I'm sure the even older analogue crt are more sympathetic to weak and wobbly RF? 🤔

YouTube video by 6502Nerd Protracker 3 song files on Oric with C and OSDK

A new video showing tools to allow Oric to play Protracker 3 files in the background from C language.
The Oric has a decent sound chip, I think it does a good job here, and now super easy to add high quality tracks to your games!
youtu.be/tL4VNIIHSW4

And relevant to lots of 6502 based machines. The general idea of a game loop, state machine for objects etc. 🤓

Haha yes got it yesterday and opened it but no time to try anything. I'll wait for the instructions I think 🤓🤞🏽

Love it🤓😍🤓👍🏽👍🏽

Oric-1 and Atari 800XL plus a homebrew computer in a BBC case.

This is an irl photo of my desk right now! 🤓🤘🏽

You can see from my profile picture that I also have an affinity for Tangerine machines.
My first computer was bought for me in 1983, an Oric-1.
I learned to program on that and it started everything for me.
Best of all I still have it and even still making things for it!

A Microtan65 should be on display!