Simon Harris

Just wait until Trump gets fixated on trousers. I think Wallace and Gromit will feature heavily.

Turning that frown upside-down would have disastrous consequences.

Surely if the characters on banknotes are to be replaced by animals, the obvious replacement for Churchill is the British bulldog…

…Oh yes!

I get that from my renal consultant. I have a PhD in a medical subject and have been working in medical research for most of the last 35 years.

Apparently if you polish those shoes to a really good shine you can see Epstein’s reflection in them.

Yes, I was most disappointed when I bought Alone Again (Naturally), only to discover it wasn’t actually a comic opera.

True! The 6502 is missing some addressing modes for some instructions. For example the BIT instruction only has direct and absolute (the 65C02 usefully added indexed by X). If you want to do a BIT test on multiple bytes in a loop, you can update the address operand of your BIT instruction on the fly

They should put Farage on one of the notes. It would be in keeping with the theme to do one with a huge cock.

Well, it does tell you the correct manner for greeting nobs.

Luxury! 16Fxxx series PICs have a stack depth of 8.

Extreme debugging - a tale of microcode and an oven It's been quite awhile since I debugged a computer program. Too long. Although I miss coding, the thing I miss more is the process of findin...

When I was a student, Alan Winfield, one of my lecturers started up a spin-out company to create a fast hardware Forth processor.

alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2013/03/extr...

Did they just decide to copy Russia's playbook, and not notice what happened in the next four years?

Waterloo in Belgium has a railway station. Imagine being the poor sod in Belgium looking for that and getting sent south of the Thames instead.

It’s so you can put it on your head and run around going ‘neee-naaaw’

Or Shazam for TV - point your phone camera at the TV and say ‘who’s that?’

I like the way the woman is posed so the sign says 'P off, Farage'

If you want to keep the same number of pixels but just reduce the file size, you’ll need something to change the compression/quality of the photo. I usually do that on my desktop machine, so can’t recommend an app for that.

I use Resize It on my iPhone when I want to reduce the size (number of pixels) of a photo. Resize It looks like this in the App Store

I would have been happy with just (nn) indirection on LDA, STA, etc. (as introduced with the 65C02). The number of times I wanted to do some indirection without having to faff around with Y first!

… and with full schematics and no custom chips, the Atom also taught me how to build 6502 systems from the ground up.

My introduction was the built in assembler on the Acorn Atom. The BBC’s predecessor.

I suspect if you could wear out a microprocessor, the bit that handles (nn,X) would still be in pristine condition.

I really wish I’d found a use for that mode back in the day. I don’t think I ever used it back then.

Don’t think the idea of ‘array of pointers’ crossed my mind back then.

Just wait until the whole series is there and see if you can find a free introductory offer. Between my wife and I, we managed enough phone contract and credit card special offers to get free Apple TV for the best part of a year.

So not one of the unimpressive ones then, I presume.

Sometimes I play ‘what if Motorola was a couple of years earlier with the 6809?” Would Acorn et al have used that instead (there actually was a 6809 option for their System boards).

But AIUI, the problem in the mid 70s was getting a high enough wafer yield, and it would have been super expensive.

Or a colon full of loose stools.

Well, 6 if you include the stack pointer, status register and program counter.

The 6800 had the same number, just 2 accumulators and 1 index, rather than 1 accumulator and two index registers.

I don’t think it’s shoplifters sounding the alarm. That would be kind of counterproductive.

More of an Earthsea ripper offer really.