Wooden boatbuilding, Lugged steel bicycle frames, computers. The usual.
Saturday, 15 August 2026
Pixel Addressable Colour on Freebee
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The Microbee Premium had enough Programmable Character RAM to assign a unique PCG character to every spot on the screen, so you could dis...
Saturday, 20 June 2026
CP/M on the PAK Cart Coreboard
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Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Tetris for the Freebee (and Microbee)
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Back in the early nineties I got my hands on a Gameboy. I didn't have any money for games, so just played the game that came with the...
Monday, 18 May 2026
Just playing around with my modified basic
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I figure my basic's not much use unless I write some code that uses it. I've started writing a game, which might be fairly obviou...
Tuesday, 28 April 2026
Getting my modified Basic to work on the ubee512 Microbee emulator
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I spent some time adapting my basic so that it'll work on the Compact Flash Coreboard. I realised that ubee512 has the ability to emulat...
Saturday, 18 April 2026
A USB PAK Cart for Freebee
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Greybeard on MSPP has developed code to use a CH376 USB host interface on a Microbee, allowing reading and writing of FAT partitioned USB st...
Thursday, 16 April 2026
This time, the bodge is not my fault
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I spent some time earlier in the week diagnosing an issue with the latest Freebee premium board, where monitors were dropping out of sync wh...
Saturday, 11 April 2026
Extending Microbee Basic for the PAK Cart Coreboard
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Now that I've got Basic properly figured out, I can do absolutely whatever I like with it. On the Premium bee, there's a third ...
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Reverse engineering Microbee Basic
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TLDR version: I am reverse engineering Microbee Basic. My disassembled code is on my google drive . It's getting pretty complete, to ...
Sunday, 4 January 2026
A PAK Coreboard for Freebee using Cartridges.
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I follow Natalie the Nerd on Bluesky, who does the most amazing things with Gameboy hardware recreations, including (I kid you not) makin...
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