I took out
from the library a sort of collection: 20 years of byte
with some historic articles, ads ,etc. from BYTE's point of view in
1994. I liked the timeline, but the articles are very boring and
technical.
Hey - I think you'll find that most of us liked the "boring
and
technical" articles better than the drivel they've been
publishing since the mid-80's !
I build one of those projects from BYTE in about 1984. A project for the
Commodore 64.
It was just two precision resistor networks connected through
CMOS drivers to the address lines of the C64. One network for
the lower 8 address lines and one for the upper 8. When the two
networks were connected to the XY inputs of a oscilloscope, you
had a 256 by 256 pixel display of where in memory the 6510
was executing.
I was making my living breaking the protection on disk software
at the time and this cartridge came in real handy for determining
where code was being loaded into memory.
I also started writing a TIC-TAC-TOE game for use with the
cartridge. The program would place JMP instructions in different
parts of memory to draw the TIC-TAC-TOE squares, Xs,and Os on
the oscilloscope. Sort of a vector graphic version. I had alot more time
on my hands back then.
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Doug Coward dcoward(a)pressstart.com
Senior Software Engineer
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
Curator
Museum of Personal Computing Machinery
http://www.best.com/~dcoward/museum
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