A new year has begun. After an extended hiatus in Japan to visit friends and family (pictured here), I am back in the
saddle and plan to respin this blog a bit. In hindsight, there was a good mix of martial arts and general embedded
topics instead of the original retrocomputing focus. The new-years resolution from 2019 to dive deep into Z80 territory
never came to fruition.
This year I am aiming for Karate Shodan. There will be more posts about that in the martial arts section.
I want to write more about advanced embedded topics, exploring RISC-V and FPGAs deeper without applying any
“retro constraints”.
I got some help from Dall-E to come up with artwork for this. This is a fantastic tool to generate artwork from text
descriptions and chiseling the results into a masterpiece through inquisition. Check out the cover image of the article.
I still like the Turbo-Vision-Esque layout (thanks vinibiavatti1) though.
I’ve spent way too many hours as a kid in front of Turbo Pascal,
and Borland C++ for MS-DOS to kiss that look and feel goodbye. The same goes for the 5.25″ disk sound. I miss my old
Eskom 80386-DX 40 with dual floppy and 170MB Connor hard drive sometimes.
Please check out our commercial blog too. Most of my time now is spent on
product release. There will be engaging lessons there too.
2023-01-19
Updated : 2025-10-04
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