I'm working on something I call "The RetroBox", a free virtual oldschool home computer, and I'm documenting the development in my blog. To make it a bit easier to find and read all the entries related to the RetroBox, I've collected them all here, in the order they're supposed to be read.
Ok, so I've been moving recently (going back to university, so I'm now a student again for the first time in a looong while), and while carrying boxes and furniture, my mind wandered, and I got an idea that can probably be described as just plain weird. Or really nice. I'll let you judge, bear with me... [ read more ]
Ok, so like I was saying last time, I'm working on something I call the RetroBox, which is kind of like a virtual oldschool computer. [ read more ]
Time for the next piece on the RetroBox. If you don't know what that is, start here, then go read this. This entry will be quite technical, so if you're not the programmer type, you might want to skip it... [ read more ]
Time for another piece on my RetroBox. I've got it mostly working now, and will be releasing a first beta pretty soon, so I thought I'd talk a bit about how it works internally... [ read more ]
Last time I wrote about the RetroBox, I talked about its internal components, and how they are connected. One of the more complex components is the VDC, or Video Display Controller, which is responsible for displaying things on the screen, and today I will go into more detail about this... [ read more ]
If you have followed my entries on the RetroBox, you're going to like this: the first version is officially released now, and you can download it here. Included is a simple assembler program which displays a couple of sprites and some colors on the screen, like this... [ read more ]
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