#retrrocomputing

2025-06-12

Some #retro goodness arrived at my desk today ...

#z80kits
#minstrel4th
#retrrocomputing
#z80
#forth

A white cardboard box on a wooden workbench with "Tynemouth Minstrel 4th V4.26 with Keyboard" printed on thew box. A smaller, blue and white striped package rests on top of the box. A label on it reads "Tynemouth Serial Module"

Another, flatter box is placed below them with the text "USB Keyboard Module" prited on it.
Hans Hübnerhanshuebner
2023-01-01

After a week of intense hacking, I got fig FORTH to work on the NABU and use the network adapter connection as virtual disk device. It can read and write to files and runs at full 115200 8n2 speed on the serial port.

Assembly hacking requires a wee bit of concentration and my receive IRQ handler required quite some tuning to be fast enough.

Next up: Write some actual FORTH code :)

Diagnostic output of fig FORTH on the NABU loading its startup screens from GitHub

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst