RC2014 (64)
Retro Challenge 2017/10 Zork First Stream
At 7pm UK time on Sunday (yesterday), I did the first Zork live stream. This post is going to look back at how this went,…
Retro Challenge 2017/10 - Live Zork Streaming Soon
Firstly, apologies that not much has happened recently. I've been under the weather for the last few days, so only made minimal progress. However, feeling…
Retro Challenge 2017/10 Testing
The initial testing of the ESP8266 board with the RC2014 was pretty good, and fundamentally it worked. However, it wasn't quite right, and I suspected…
Retro Challenge 2017/10 Getting Started
So, the idea of streaming the RC2014 to the internet had been rattling around in my head for a while, but I'd never quite worked…
Retro Challenge 2017
Ok, with 5 days of October already gone, I know it's cutting things a bit fine for putting my entry in for this seasons Retro…
Precision Laser Cut Resistors
Since the first days of selling RC2014 kits, I've been cutting resistors off of bandoleers. Depending on the kit, they might be singular, or in…
Backplane Motherboard Lacing
Having the ability to isolate some slots on the Backplane 8 can be very handy at times, and putting some protection in between modules can…
Decoding ROM labels
Back in the earliest days of the RC2014, it came with a pre-programmed 27C512 64k ROM, with Microsoft BASIC on it in the first 8k,…