Category: hardware
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The Commodore 64, Forty Years On
This is just a test
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IDUN Build #3 — Flashing & Config and more to make the title longer
With the board "built", the last mile is software. Three steps and the cart comes alive.
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The Atari 2600, Reconsidered
The Atari 2600 turned the living room into an arcade. Its hardware is almost absurdly minimal — 128 bytes of RAM, a TIA chip you have to race the beam to program — and yet it launched a whole industry.
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IDUN Build #1 — Unboxing the Kit
The kit arrived: a neat anti-static bag of parts, a bare PCB, and a surprisingly thick BOM. First job is the inventory — count everything, sort the resistors by value, and make sure nothing's missing before the iron gets hot.
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IDUN Build #2 — Soldering
Iron on. Passives first — resistors, then the sockets, then the trickier bits. The one surface-mount part had me sweating, but a bit of flux and a steady hand got it seated cleanly.