7 January 2019
LM80C: the Zilog Z80
Once I chose the CPU, I started studying it. Altough I used 8-bits computers, at the time I was too...
Computer
6 January 2019
LM80C: the CPU choise
The first choice I had to make has been the CPU (Central Processing Unit), the computing unit and heart of...
2 January 2019
LM80C, a Zilog Z80-based 8-bit color computer
I grew up during the golden age of 8-bits computers, I lived the ’80s by typing “listings” and loading games...
22 May 2015
Today is the 35th birthday of Pac-Man
On may, 22, 1980 Pac-Man, one of the most successful arcade games ever was first published, so important that the...
25 February 2015
One of the Atari 2600 developers passes away
Steve Bristow, one of the developers of the most famous Atari games and the Atari 2600, one of the first and...
12 December 2014
How to solve the upgrading problems of Flash Player on OSX
Today Macromedia has released Flash Player 16.0.0.235. If you had visited a page containing a Flash application maybe you’d received a message...
2 October 2014
Which compression method do we have to choose for our archives?
We usually have to move at a glance a lot of files, and some of them can be very big,...
13 September 2014
AVRFuses, a GUI tool to modify the fuses of the Atmel MCUs (OS X)
Many users want a tool to manipulate the Atmel MCUs easily avoiding avrdude and the terminal. There are several options for...
11 August 2014
Arduino: operations with timeouts
When we’re setting up a program that will interact with the user, we should consider the case that the user...
5 August 2014
LibreOffice 4.3, new GUI with OSX-style
LibreOffice 4.3 has been released recently. Finally, it offers a more integration of its GUI with the style of OSX....