[PiDP-1]

Bill, On Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 1:22:05 PM UTC+2 wjegr...@gmail.com wrote: How are binaries

I finally got around to it now. pushed something to my own repo (not yet to pidp1), which i hope is

Time to revive this, it's been a while. finally added lightpen support, only tested with

I saw, but you immediately disappeared. i keep saying we (as in humanity) still haven't figured

Thanks! I'm spending the coming week together with Oscar at his place for another pidp-1 sprint.

wait...why was i not aware of this? i even have the pdf on my machine. need to implement the type 33

Good point! pdp1_periph will also get support for a second screen in the next few days (that's

This is indeed an inaccuracy we're aware of. the problem is that it's hard to get feedback on

Very Nice collection. One of these days I'd like to add the Altair also. On Thursday, March 5,

Yeah, I'll just do a fresh clone. :-( 17:22:24 /opt/pidp1-mods:$ git pull remote: Enumerating

I uploaded a spreadsheet with complete test patterns for switches (including controllers) for the

In some quick testing, I only seem to see the ncat errors the first time I try to start pdp1control

With documentation, of course. And as usual, I got carried away, but it sure makes debugging easier.

Same here. My -1 has been running 24/7, cycling thru lines, spacewar, lander, snowflake, and pong.

https://obsolescence.dev/pdp1-manual.html On Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:30:24 PM UTC-5 b.de...

Aw, you should have followed the parenthetical lead and named it YAD1, or yad1 if your prefer

The line drawing demo and the tracking demo are also now in .../FunStuff/Demos. The program selector

I decided to switch to a reader thread for the lightpen. It's a lot cleaner than all the poll()

That''s the initial light pen locator. Unless a dot is seen, there is no knowledge of where

Another update. As before it can be found in the Files section of the project on Hackaday. I brought

And the drum. And the symbol generator, And the clock. In the latest repo update. Bill

Hi Bill, Just a small patch to consider where I have simulated a circular Light Pen aperture. I have

"The CHM does have a type 33 symgen and there's a pic somewhere of it working. It's not

The disassembler has been updated in its branch, also in the mods branch. The mods dir now has all

Interesting. It doesn't seem to be implemented that way in pidp1, I'll dig into it. Yes, the

And here's the new one running. Lightpen works! And it's pretty, too. Bill

Thanks to patient help from ke...@mcgrath.name my repo has been updated. You can now install the full

On Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 5:46:13 PM UTC-5 ke...@mcgrath.name wrote: I can imagine an actual

Argh! Never mind, I'm not sure what I was looking at, but dcp is set and everything seems to be

Good question. BenQ has this to say regarding LCD monitors: "In principle, BenQ monitors are

After more digging and semi-deciphering the posted PDP-4 diagnostic code, here's what seems to be