Subject: [stella] hello there From: "Siert Wieringa" <se541075@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:21:58 -0400 |
Hello Atari programmers, Last week I was looking for some old computer information on the internet and found the Atari 2600 Developers Community. After some hesitations I decided to subscribe to this mailing list and the AtariAge forum, so I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself here. I am now 22 years old and I am dutch. As a child I owned a 2600 (who didn't) but I think I skillfully destroyed that thing like so much other electrical stuff that got into my hands. Well, it wasn't all for nothing because I later decided I'd study electrical engineering. I've always been making computer programmes and always loved to work with old 8-bit systems and more modern homebrew/"schoolbrew" microcontroller systems. That is why when I got my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering last year I decided to do a master in computer science and have some more of the theoretical software stuff. During my bachelors course I've been fiddling a lot with the i2c bus, first writing software to connect it to the PC's parallel port. Later a friend of mine and me designed a device that was using a fast CPLD and lots of VHDL code to decode i2c bus signals and send them to a PC that could then display the data read from the bus without the device actually participating in the bus communications. Now I only have to do software (and mathematics :-() in university I like to do some more home electronics projects. Since I still love the simplicity of the i2c bus I'd love to connect it to all my old computers and an Atari 2600 would be a great addition. That is why my hesitation for subscribing to the Stella mailing list ended when I read a topic dated somewhere last month on somebody who'd already connected the i2c bus to Atari's. Sunday I am going to collect an Atari 2600 that I bought on the internet yesterday and I think you'll be hearing more from me once I get going. By the way, my compliments to Kirk Israel, I loved the 2600 101 tutorial. Cheers, Siert _____________________________________________________________________ 12move ADSL vanaf 18,95 euro! GRATIS modem, GEEN aansluitkosten en GEEN datalimiet! Ga nu naar http://adsl.12move.nl Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://stella.biglist.com
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