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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

www.gammon.com.au/forum/threads/116… www.gammon.com.au/forum/threads/116… it seems some good capacitors are necessary on the breadboard. i ordered five bucks of stuff from aliexpress: 10 x 20pF ceramic […] [Original post on anticapitalist.party]

an ATmega1284 on a breadboard, plugged into an arduino uno. the uno is being used as an ISP to program the 1284. it looks very fiddly.

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Project Update October 2026 The current points of focus in the project are: Coming up with a text editor you can type into a Tiny BASIC interpreter by hand. Something around 200 to 300 lines of code, and allows, say, a couple of pages of text of free RAM, for the user to do serious work within […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

project update post. the project has been exploring BASIC for some time. BASIC is indeed a general purpose programming language. it can be used to create anything one can think of. it is possible to run BASIC on contemporary hardware, from desktops to micro-controllers. the original original […]

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Juan F. Ramírez @juanfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Feel like Robin Hood with this shooter in #BASIC from #yourcomputer magazine. Download: spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/26840… #zxspectrum #retrogaming

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

"Konilo is a small, pragmatic personal computing system written in Forth and running on a tiny virtual computer. A complete system consists of an ilo vm, an image file ("rom") with the Konilo system, and a set of blocks for storage of code and data. ilo provides a portable MISC computer with […]

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

given the ubiquity of the commodore 64, and its recent re-entering manufacturing, it kind of makes sense for me to support it with the people's permacomputer project. the hardware the project currently supports is the LILYGO TTGO VGA32, an ESP32 based board. it is considerably cheaper than a […]

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@permacomputer VIC EDITYPE BASIC text editor research log. I have been studying the core loop of the program. What happens is a tight loop around: 120 GET C$:IF C$="" THEN GOTO 120 And then after we test for special menu characters, we echo the character, using a semicolon to prevent a […]

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Research has continued on VIC EDITYPE, for the purpose of writing a more idiomatic ~5KB Tiny BASIC text editor. The intention is to publish this under the umbrella of the peoples @permacomputer project. The way text entry works is straightforward. Editing is a little crude, you step through […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

from vidak of the project committee: *** Hi, Due to constant spam, I have closed all account creation without some sort of verification from myself or one of the admin/moderation team here. I am not going to open SMTP firewall ports on a container that is subject to spam, so all verification […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

Please find attached a video of the 1977 8K BASIC text editor EDIT running on modern hardware. This has been the result of a few months' work, patient waiting for the post, and quite a bit of frustration. Porting the code to a modern BASIC is trivial once you […] [Original post on retro.social]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

"You may be old enough to remember the 1980s home computer boom. Your computer booted directly into BASIC, and that's what you learned to program with. That BASIC would have features like string handling and arrays. It would have a FOR loop structure for counting. And if you were very lucky, it […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

we have been thinking about Tiny BASIC proper, the one without arrays or FOR/NEXT, etc. perhaps the next step is to attempt to write 'serious' software using its limited command set. games would be reasonably easy, but text editors not so much, due to the lack of array variables.

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

The People's Permacomputer Project sponsors the Solarpunk BASIC Programming Archive. You can find the link to the archive in our project profile metadata. Looking through the logs, many people seem to enjoy the BASIC archive. Should you feel generous, think about following the project […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

new Dandelion BASIC devlog in this post we discuss where development is up to. we have successfully been able to encode the original TBX interpretive language program into a new format that will be easier to implement for the Arduino. the next step is getting the "execution engine" going […]

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Dandelion BASIC devlog So I have managed to encode the Tiny BASIC Extended interpretive language program into a nice bytecode that makes sense to me, and will be easy to process. Currently that bytecode looks like: Byte 0, the instruction bitmask, helps with dispatch. Byte 1, 2, the 16 bit […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

please follow this forum thread for more discursive discussion coming up on Dandelion BASIC basiclang.solarpunk.au/d/9-tiny-bas… included information that will be discussed: - how the execution routine is supposed to work - how to set up avr-gcc and GNU assembler - how to use […]

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Dandelion BASIC devlog just know that it is 2am rn. we are going to have to switch to 3-byte instruction encoding because i cannot do any kind of calculation of values inside any kind of preprocessor directive in GNU assembler. i am not going to switch assemblers in the middle of a project […]

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

big problems with Dandelion BASIC today. it turns out you cannot do mathematical symbol operations using .byte directive inside avr-gcc. so, macros like this: .equ ML_CALL, 0b11000000 .macro CALL label .byte ((hi8(\label)) | (ML_CALL)), lo8(\label) .endm cannot be done. ...which means the […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

work is proceeding on Dandelion BASIC in earnest. this is the first serious code laid down since this new attempt. for updates please follow: codeberg.org/vidak/dandelion #retrocomputing #basic #tinybasic #arduino #asm #assembly #permacomputing

two emacs windows. left and right. on the left is dandelion.S, and on the right is the Whippleway ATmega1280 Tiny BASIC, a direct interpreter.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Okay I think Dandelion BASIC is starting to come together. The ROM memory locations had all been mapped out some time ago, but I had been confused about how the GAS assembly directives mapped RAM. This has finally fallen into place, and the RAM is now completely mapped out by hand from the top […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

...it turns out there are many Tiny BASICs. the project has been exploring writing its own Tiny BASIC for some time now, explicitly targeting the Arduino platform. our research was fruitful, and we found that Dick Whipple, one of the authors of the original […] [Original post on retro.social]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Found in November 1988 issue of Nibble magazine. Interactive archive.org link in website post. The project was alerted to the existence of a few text editors and word processors in Nibble magazine by someone on matrix. What we found was a great wealth of BASIC programs for the Apple II […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

The whole fascists controlling the means of production thing makes hobbyist OSs look a little bit more viable now, huh.

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

project notes 28 august 2026 things to look into: - arduino recreation of kim-1, the "kim uno" (a potential portable permacomputer) - ulisp on the LILYGO TTGO VGA32 ESP32 board (!!!) (a desktop micro computer model permacomputer)

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Thinking about word processors and text editors written in Tiny BASIC. I have quite a collection. You can see them all here: codeberg.org/vidak/peoples-permacom… Perhaps it is time to write my own. It would be written in this: […]

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People's Permacomputer Project @permacomputer.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

github.com/keith-packard/snek "Snek is a tiny embeddable language targeting processors with only a few kB of flash and ram. Think of something that would have been running BASIC years ago and you'll have the idea. These processors are too small to run MicroPython."

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Snek programming language for tiny systems. Contribute to keith-packard/snek development by creating an account on GitHub.

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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Been working on Dandelion BASIC today. I printed Dick Whipple's ATmega1280 code, which is a direct interpreter. It is about 3400 lines of code, and printed on A4 paper, it comes to just over 50 pages. From this code I am going to glean the transposed Intel 8080 ISA onto the AVR ISA with GCC # […]

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