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Timeline is still awhile .. the various jacks ordered are ebay from china, so could be 4-6 weeks, at which time I can do the pcb tweaks .. since it is part specific, and I need to measure out the sizing very precisely. The cart eeprom/flash chips are quick - order from the US, they'd be here...

Anyone still watching this space? As winter is coming, its back to more Zikzak hacking. Got pretty far at the beginning of this year, with the Zikzak single board computer working 'pretty well'; video was coming out, the Z80 and STM32 as gpu working together pretty well.. and then I decided to...

I admire your honesty and ability to express your emotion and compassion; no one can imagie what it must be like, but we can admire how you have adapted and survived, to make the best of and learn and be humbled by the experience. I'm sorry it happened, but you're amazing for how you're handling...

Missed this thread. This is totally awesome :) Well done sir! Didn't read whole thread yet but worried about patent trolls coming in to swipe it, or companies for sure goint to make their own variant .. hope this publishes far and fast and wide quickly, so that no one can get a proprietary...

Keep meaning to go fire up a 4X (Endless Legend?) but never the time. My twins just started school (remember when I essentially dropped off the earth a few years ago .. well, slowly emerging back into the light ;) so we're getting some breathers ...anyone watching the last 6mo I've been...

I should look into usb or bluetooth-serial, so as to make adding a keyboard easier than PS2. Its hard to find a small scale ps2 keyboiard, for adding to a mini case :)

Bundling the images.. thats a pretty good idea. Need 'em in svg and raster :) jeff

Don't want to wax on off topic.. so the short answer is "I wish, and it breaks my heart, but time limitations keep me from it". I'll ramble on in spoiler tag, if you're curious about the mumblings of an old man ;) Pyra is going to be much more a 'real machine', with some serious processing...

The hot air rework stations are _awesome_. Not just for heat-shrink tubing but for solder rework and surface mount, its wicked. I've been mad busy with the kids, but my little guys are going to school come September.. (sniff! ... but also, hoooooray! ... can you imagine, the twins were born...

You have to be fearless; the chance of killing yourself or anything of value is low, and you surely will kill some LEDs, microprocessors, caps and junk.. but thats half the fun, right? If you're afraid to break stuff, you'll never make stuff. Breaking is part of the job, just like being lost is...

The tricopter seems ready to fly, but I've not actually gotten it off the ground for more than 2 seconds yet ('hover test, with wicked drifting, subsequant panic and turn throttle off'); still, it took off :) Mostly, thats nerves and inexperience; my dad is a huge RC aircraft nerd, so as a kid...

Thats actually quite a good book in a lot of ways (I also picke dit up, to help me start.) But what I found out was.. it was much more effective (for me, anyway) to just _get doing_; the book is not enough detail in a lot of aras, and too much in others, and it was very easy to fall into the...

Keep thinking of coming back to the Zikzak project; was a lot of fun; got myself sidetracked too many times.. and now that I've assembled a 3d printer, I've reaaaaally gotten sidetracked.. currently trying to 'design' a tricopter (pfft, quad's are boring!) .. getting there. Anyway :) A number...

*hawt* TrashyMG .. good christ dude :) (by which I mean, your devboard pic fails, it has no boxed carts behind it!) jeff

Its rare thankfully when some idiot gets a great idea like webcamming your office cube; but I ensure I always have a game machine handy for those moments, so that the camera can be trained on bubble bobble or something, all the time. You think we're goofing off all day, when we're actually...

Zikzak ftw :)

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:blink: But you know.. too right :)

I will probably back it in the last surge, but the price point is sort of offputting; totally acceptible, but I've KSed way too many things lately and feel poor :) For any Atari ST or Amiga nerd, the Bitmaps will always have a special place. jeff

I was food for worms. Will be again. This is not jaded .. this is joyous and it is freeing; we breath the same air as everyone who has ever lived, and what makes me will make up the next guy sometime, and the next guy is my kids and others; we've come a long way, this matter, and we'll keep this...