Series: Ataru: Building a Modular Z80 Computer
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Ataru
A couple of months back, I was involved in an embedded systems project for the automotive industry (renowned supercar manufacturer); I was tasked with porting and optimising a proof-of-concept imaging system to a prototype board based on the SAMA5D2. All in a day’s work as they say: preparing a customised…
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Ataru (Reboot)
A few years ago, in the middle of a fairly severe burnout, I tried to motivate myself the way a sensible adult would: by living on YouTube. I had caught the BenEater bug and decided that what I really needed in my life was a breadboard Z80 computer. It worked.…
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Thus Spake Ataru
When I showed Ataru playing At Doom’s Gate to my wife, she thought I had built some sort of advanced ultrasonic pest repellent. I died a little inside. Apparently, in her hierarchy of priorities, preventing neighbourhood dogs from pooping in front of our house ranks slightly above coaxing a custom-built…
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Good Morning, Ataru
In the beginning… there was dust. Apes. Magnificent, wretched apes. Screaming at bones. At each other. At the void itself. Then, it appears. Silent. Black. Incomprehensible. A rectangle so perfect it could only be wrong. It does not speak. It does not need to. The apes touch it. And something……