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authorAndreas Baumann <mail@andreasbaumann.cc>2023-05-14 20:05:20 +0200
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updated on IMC-2001
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diff --git a/content/hardware/imc-2001.md b/content/hardware/imc-2001.md
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@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ This is an old Taiwanese Apple \]\[ / CP/M clone.
Trying to fix several issues:
-- ROM 1 with BASIC is broken (and gets really hot). This explains
- the booting issues.. (will be tricky to get a replacement). The
- board layout doesn't fit to the original ROM sizes too..
- the floppy drives read floppies (both) but they don't write to floppies
(when copying in CP/M or creating a file), they work when formatting
a drive on CP/M though. ~~Could be a side-effect of the PSU not working properly.~~
@@ -25,13 +22,25 @@ Trying to fix several issues:
and produces a flickering image
- the CRT is producing some flickering when turning the brightness nob,
this should be fixable with some deoxit.
+- there could be grounding/signal issues causing the flickering of the CRT
+ (stemming from the replacement PSU).
- keyboard cable is broken, at least the data line
- the paddle and the joystick connectors miss some legs for putting them into
the sockets on the motherboard
- possibly much more
+- the keyboard reset line cannot be taken to ground on the keyboard, works
+ with shrtening ground and reset though just fine. Must be a bug on the
+ ICs of the keyboard controller or a broken trace.
Fixed issues:
+- ~~ROM 1 with BASIC is broken (and gets really hot). This explains
+ the booting issues.. (will be tricky to get a replacement). The
+ board layout doesn't fit to the original ROM sizes too..~~
+ Got an AT28C256, no more frying of chips, Apple Basic prompt appears,
+ tested some commands and it seems fine. The 32k ROM has to be filled in
+ starting from 0x6000 with #E000-$EFFF and from $7000 with $D000-$DFFF.
+ If this ROM is ok we will see.
- Reseated and deoxied all ICs, some of them were quite corroded, at
least 3 more turned out to be bad. Sadly it didn't have an effect on
ROM 1 not getting hot (must be something else).
diff --git a/content/toolbox/_index.md b/content/toolbox/_index.md
index 37c6c49..861e92c 100644
--- a/content/toolbox/_index.md
+++ b/content/toolbox/_index.md
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Some things I found to be useful for daily programming.
[newsboat-og](https://github.com/andreasbaumann/newsboat-og))
* [Wordgrinder](https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/): really nice text editor
if actually all you want to do is writting some text
+* [Suckless](https://suckless.org/): pretty much every software there is
+ 10 times smaller and easier to use than whatever makes up the default
+ Linux user land. I'm a big fan of it.. it only should be the standard
+ on every Linux system.
## Deprecated