@flatduckrecords.co.uk Ah I never considered that. A bit less contact surface but less friction on the legs I guess?
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Maybe something more delicate than my dad’s old flathead screwdriver for levering them out, too. 🤔
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Hopefully they’re broadly useful enough to stay around for a while🤞
Now you mention it I see new DIPs are running out, I should grab a few before they do …and maybe some ZIF sockets for testing so I don’t fatigue the legs off of these one too! 😆
@samcoupe.com Right, thanks, that makes sense! I’m also writing a custom ROM to drive it (and therefore a custom interrupt handler too) so I was starting to suspect that’s where my problem is. Anyway Ed’s AY interface has plenty of jumper settings to choose from at least! 😅
@samcoupe.com Ooh yeah, heres a quick test with the key ring version. Looks pretty snazzy!
@samcoupe.com Funnily enough I’m right in the middle of experimenting with AY-on-SAM. I think the Speccy-style AY port addressing (FFFD, BFFD) is clashing with SAM’s MIDI (xxFD). It works if I use other ports (e.g. D0,D8) but perhaps a software translation to SAA might be the way to go!
@samcoupe.com Oh, never thought of that! Great idea. Could replace the pin with a wee magnet maybe. 🤔 💡
@fuzzweed.co.uk Folk are always giving it, “screaming into the void” and “staring into the abyss” but nothing says 2026 like “recessed LED lighting over the chasm”
@fuzzweed.co.uk Hahaha. No. Not possible.
@samcoupe.com Heh! Yes it’s a shame to entomb it in the blue box really! But it 🔊sounds🔊 great, that’s the main thing. 😆
@fuzzweed.co.uk It’s a 4-ply PCB for extra comfort. Long, and very very strong.
@fuzzweed.co.uk Absolutely brilliant. Fuzzlabs is cooking tonight.
@breakintoprogram.co.uk Ben’s kits were (pun intended!) delightful. To say I was a bit rusty, well I had to upgrade my gas-powered soldering iron, and actually buy some flush cutters… but the build process went very smoothly thanks in large part to the methodical labeling and good instructions! Pic from August 2020.
@mattround.com Recently I was looking up info (about a ZX/Epson printer driver) and Google pointed me to a 1995 thread of a guy asking how to make backup tape of a worn-out original. Well, he must’ve managed because I now have that very copy—he’d put his name in some unrelated BASIC progs on the same tape. Heh!
@fuzzweed.co.uk Nosfurratu.
@sonicyoda.neocities.org brown AND sticky
@jon-jones.bsky.social D’oh! Easily done, hopefully it’s ok! I was fiddling with the light diffuser on my LED matrix the other day, accidentally shorted-out two adjacent modules 😱 Thankfully it just hung the system and didn’t blow anything up! I’ve been using little insulation cards since, I ought to fit standoffs tho 😅
@jimtrinca.bsky.social Oh, aye!
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Heh, just the angle. I tried various angles and distances to get a video clip but couldn’t not make it look like a headache machine.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Nah not physically. Just grabbing the volume values from a buffer in the player routine (thanks to @stefandrissen.bsky.social’s E-Tracker disassembly!) and outputting to a different LED row on each loop.
@flatduckrecords.co.uk I’ve got an 8x8 matrix display, but it needs to be multiplexed though so it’s hard to film without a photosensitivity warning 🤩
@flatduckrecords.co.uk Thanks! Need moar LED.