Monthly Archives: December 2018

Uploading code to the Arduino Mega 2560 using avrdude

Posted on December 11, 2018 by

In the hope that this might be useful to someone else, I am publishing here the command that did the job for me (through the COM9 port) when I was trying to help a colleague at work today: avrdude -Cavrdude.conf … Continue reading →

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IECHost GUI client version 3.3 released

Posted on December 10, 2018 by

Version 3.3 of the IECHost GUI client is now available within my Software page.

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Further progress on the IECHost GUI client version 3.3

Posted on December 2, 2018 by

Here’s a preview of the sector contents viewer that I plan to include in version 3.3 of the IECHost GUI client: Stay tuned!

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How the GCR value of a valid Commodore disk track can be represented with just 7 bits

Posted on December 1, 2018 by

There’s a series of interesting observations that come handy when attempting to transfer the GCR representation of a track value in a Commodore 1541 disk using fewer than 10 bits. First of all, Commodore’s own GCR encoding is covered here. Because track … Continue reading →

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IECHost GUI client version 3.3 progress

Posted on December 1, 2018 by

As version 3.2 is now officially out, I am progressing with changes for version 3.3. Here’s a video showing one of the new features: Stay tuned!

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IECHost GUI client version 3.2 released

Posted on December 1, 2018 by

Version 3.2 of the IECHost GUI client is now available within my Software page.

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