I’ve been working on my Virtual Boy game The Legend of Helga again. I hit a milestone: It’s now 512KB before padding. Don’t know if that’s good or...

   So... back in this entry, I mentioned that I got sidetracked working on something for PRGE last year, while cleaning up the switch caps on the basket...

   So it’s been a few days since I posted here, and the reason why was completely self-inflicted... The obvious next step for the desktop work was to...

   Well, that was an interesting break from the normal. I’ve been drawing golf comics for my webcomic (it’s updated daily visit it.) I drew 24 comics...

   PerfectPaddle - Paddle Interface: DevLog - Features, Changes & Stuff I’ve continued to poke away at this, as time allows ... and since my...

   Are you looking forward to the Atari BBS community Zoom chat? It’s coming soon Sunday, June 7th 2026 at 3pm Eastern. For more information and the...

   I had one of my patented bouts of insomnia. I didn’t get to sleep until after 3 a.m. I realized something, though: It’s not really insomnia. It’s me...

   It’d be pretty annoying to have gone through all of the trouble of restoring these 2600s without showing the end results. So yeah... I wasn’t going...

   So we have the ARM cores booting into FreeRTOS now, providing the underpinnings of the multi-tasking between different applications (the 2 client...

   GEM as a user-interface in 2026, really ? Well it’s not as mad as it sounds. The plan was always to offload the screen drawing responsibilities to...

   So next-up is loading binary programs into the XT. This is a longer story than might first appear, because the launcher for these programs is going...

   Here. https: www.atari2600land.com newbigbelchnews This is issue one of what I hope to be many more issues of the new big belch news. I was looking...

   So my initial, blasé, plan was to just use the USB port on the Zynq to host HID (mouse, keyboard, ...) devices and then I open up a memory port in...

   For June, I dug out my two 7800 bins, hooked up Atari 7800 and brand new CX78 wireless game pad. I bought a bunch of new games for the 2600 and 7800...

   Our mail comes into a slot. The mailman drops the mail in the slot and it lands in a basket in the garage. In front of the mail slot, on the outside,...

   Uh oh. Frank got himself in a part of the ocean that’s infested with piranhas. Not many people know this, but they travel in pairs. If you touch one,...

   Ok, major milestone. So this is a booted fabric-based 6502, with a fabric-based ANTIC, running the embedded Atari OS, with ANTIC’s output being sent...

   Choose your own pop culture reference regarding being dirty or clean . There are a ton of ’em. I was thinking of the He’s very clean running gag from...

   I had a rare occurrence happen: I got mail. In the mail was something from the Census Bureau. We only do the census every ten years in the U.S. and...

   So much needs to be going right for the below image to appear on the HDMI monitor. The 6502 has to boot, ANTIC has to boot DDR3 memory has to be...

   It’s Sunday already? Wow. I added two more games to Press Fire. One is What the Duck? Go hunting for ducks. The cursor moves around. So do the ducks....

   So... I never did show you how those basket-case 2600s turned out. The entire point of acquiring and fixing-up those consoles, was to have them ready...

   So today I opened up the repo, it’s getting to the point where we’ll be seeing Atari BASIC running on the actual monitor soon. It’s not there yet but...

   About a week or so ago, I started making comics for my daily webcomic about the game of golf. I called it That’s Golf I didn’t think it would last...