Wayne Young

screenshot showing two windows. The left one, which is underneath the right one, has 6502 microprocessor assembly language source code. The right window contains the output of an assembler, which now includes the machine code for the instructions in the assembler window.

Gradually getting the pieces together to help me create programs for the OSI C1P in a more friendly environment:

BASIC text to cassette tape input audio converter ✔️
6502 assembler ✔️

Gradually getting the pieces together to help me create programs for the OSI C1P in a more friendly environment:

BASIC text to cassette tape input audio converter ✔️
6502 assembler for embedding machine code in BASIC programs - in progress

CGI ? 🤔
(Character Generator Imagery)
Ironically ... there is a diagonal line character in the C1P character set, so that particular image could have been drawn with the standard character set.
I need to draw a big circle or something to show something not possible with the built-in glyphs.

Screen capture of a BASIC program from a vintage computer. There is a diagonal line at the bottom which was drawn on the screen by the program using a programmable character generator.

While the OSI C1P didn't have raster graphics, you can still draw lines with a programmable character generator ☺️

Screen shot of a vintage computer output with sample BASIC program and graphical character set displayed at the bottom.

After 40 years, the programmable character generator I designed and built for my OSI C1P computer still works! ☺️

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei - Official Music Video YouTube video by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

Check out #LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER aka Sam Battle and his UK Eurovision entry
What a banger!!!
youtu.be/8XR2RvfZ-68?...

Look Mum No Computer: UK's Eurovision entrant says his song Eins, Zwei, Drei, is 'a risk' Look Mum No Computer unveils his

Let's GO Sam!!!🎹🎵🎤🥳
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Trying to insert floppies is pointless. You need to spend as long as it takes to get the system performing at its peak before engaging the hard drive.😉

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

I'll raise you "anticrepuscular rays" 😉

US will not follow 'stupid rules of engagement' in Iran war, says defence secretary Pete Hegseth YouTube video by The Journal

"No stupid rules of engagement" should be a wake up call for every nation on the planet.
It seems Hegseth thinks the Geneva Convention should be ignored, & the USA can do whatever it pleases without consequence.
The moral high ground has well and truly been lost.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHzZ...

New Scottish Dark Sky Observatory plans in Galloway approved The facility in Galloway will replace one which burned down in Ayrshire more than four years ago.

New observatory incoming ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stormtrooper - drawn in crayon by @Bhaal_Spawn aka @bhaalspawn.bsky.social https://yavinpaints.etsy.com

Stormtrooper, drawn ✏️ by me in white and blue Crayola.

Drawn on black 8"x12" paper, 2018.

Another stormy - and this one also can't aim for toffee. 😛

#TillysArt

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Eisenhower

The Dusty Surroundings of Orion and the Pleiades apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26030...
This image contains the Pleiades star cluster, Barnard's Loop, Orion Nebula, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Witch Head Nebula, Eridanus Loop, and the California Nebula.

Sorry! I should have explained the TLA (three letter acronym), which is ironic, because in work I hate it when people use them without explanation. They litter the documentation, presentations and meetings and are often not defined.🤦‍♂️

The way you tell it, you make it sound like it's not hard. I would contend that it's quite the opposite. You shouldn't be so modest. 😉

a man wearing a black shirt with the word nirvana on it Alt: a man wearing a black shirt with the word nirvana on it

"NBD" .. spoken like a true artist ... 🤣

Let me get this straight ... just an ordinary white wax crayon, on black paper?
And there doesn't appear to be any guide lines or marks, so .. what? You "just drew it"?!?! 😮
That's quite incredible. Would love to watch you drawing the out-of-focus parts to see how it's done.

Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

Earth's heat to power 10,000 homes in renewable energy first for UK. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And we're off! My most favourite telescope, the Vera Rubin Observatory, has turned on its public alert stream and boy, were there a lot of changes in the Universe last night. More coming: ~7 million a night 😮: exploding stars, belching black holes, asteroids cruising through the solar system. 🤗🔭🧪

6502 opcodes like a chemistry table

The 6502 Opcode Periodic Table

Truly weird JWST images of a truly weird object: Supernova 1987A We’ve been studying it for over 35 years and still don’t really understand it

Happy 39th anniversary to an astronomical revolution: the light from the explosion of Supernova 1987A reaching Earth!

Here's what I wrote about JWST observations of this event.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/truly-weir...

🔭 🧪

Wow! Worth a watch.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

'She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to America: “Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.”'
#ICE
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Because they got tired of drawing circles?🤷‍♂️
Maybe if they sold tyres a circle would have been more appropriate?😉

Wow, that's cool! Note that New Horizons flew past Pluto so rapidly it only got really detailed images of one side, hence the fuzzy parts.

Wow! 😮

Stellarium graphic showing the Moon near Saturn, Mercury and Venus on the evening of 20 February 2026.

After sunset, around 18:00 UT on 20 February, it might be possible to spot the 11% lit #Moon in a line with Saturn, Mercury and Venus low in the west-southwest. This will be a tricky one too see due to the faintness and low height of the planets. The Moon should be a nice sight though. #Astronomy