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Retro Computing Nostalgia meet Open Source Software and Hardware with AgonLight and Neo6502, the incredible evolution of modern Retro computer projects https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/retro-computing-nostalgia-meet-open-source-software-and-hardware/ #z80 #w65c02 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #pascal #cpm #forth #basic #cc65

Oh shite, I was wrong.

Chris has a #CommodorePET at home and a thumping big hard drive. Wait for it, Chris is writing #software in Commodore #BASIC, an “expert system” for ‘House Planning’. Expected time to completion?

Three months to write the code; Three months to populate the (database) system to make it useful.

Hack Chris, Hack

#hacker / #applications

Extremely decent ASCIIART benchmark result on @tomjennings 's Friendly eZ80 CP/M computer running BASIC-80 5.21 : 11.3 seconds

Another benchmark suggests that it's running BASIC 47× faster than a C64

#RetroComputing#BASIC #cpm

a BASIC listing of a crude Mandelbrot set plotter, which is then run to display the set with increasing hexadecimal digits plotting higher values
a BASIC listing of a crude Mandelbrot set plotter, which is then run to display the set with increasing hexadecimal digits plotting higher values