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Now that I had everything setup and running, I needed an easy way to develop, and clearly, typing on the machine itself, wasn’t going to cut it. The line editor…

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The Agon Console8

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Introducing the Agon Console8

Oct 16, 2023 mikedailly

Heber recently released the Agon Console8, and after being “persuaded” (repeatedly!) to take a look at it, and to try and get a Lemming walking in a demo or something.…

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When going through my archives, I discovered I’d written a simple serial send program – VSSend and stuck it on a PSX boot disk, way back in 2000 while I…

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I’ve bought a few old devkits from ebay recently and have been having a little play with them. Old devkits are cool little bits of history, but become even more…

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