MalphasWats

Largely for the same reason people don't "just win" the lottery by buying every possible ticket (any more).

in-fighting, power struggles & empire building. Then fell into bankruptcy.

I feel like the CX16 lost its way about a week after the project started and it suddenly became an expensive FPGA-based blob. But at the same time, I'm not sure what other option there is for a project like that.

I always got the impression that David sort of got railroaded by the other members of the team that wanted to keep adding features and MOAR POWAH, and didn't have a huge amount of choice because those features quickly scoped out of his own areas of knowledge.

It's incredible how influential Ben Eater's breadboard computer series has been in hobby electronics. I've been similarly inspired to try to design my own "retro" CPU.

I desperately want something as easy to plug into things as the 6502, but with jussst a little more capability - few more registers, hardware division, that sort of thing. It's a really daunting task.

I always end up coming back to just use an MCU and be done with it, and then I hit the How To Generate Graphics problem.

You're complaining about a Writer writing?

This looks interesting, thanks.

At the moment I don't want to use it as a single display, rather display 9 different things (and various permutations thereof).

I plan to hack something together, but I'm struggling to envision how it should all look, so this is a good start.

"Hi, I'm Insert Name, pleased to meet you. Can I borrow your phone".

"No"

...

"Erm, what do you think you're doing, get your hand out of my pocket!"

No-one touches my phone.

Ironically, we're all reading this on the web, where browsers merrily remove superfluous white space. If every browser can agree on that, given how much they all disagree on, I'll take that as a pretty good endorsement for single-spacing.

Takeaway for us in the real world: locate an exit before you start moving.

I think that's generally how jokes work.

I did this once. I installed Ubuntu on a new laptop, resizing the disk partition as I went. When I switched back to Windows, I realised I had left it hibernated and the partition resize upset it very much.

A day or so later, I tried to install some sound drivers in Ubuntu and somehow managed to uninstall xwindows entirely (I learnt to read and think before typing stuff in off a web site :)

A day later I rebuilt from the windows install disk and left things alone. I keep Linux on my servers, it's much happier there!

I think that this comes down not so much to the arrogance of "Our idea is so good, we must stop people copying it!", but more the ignorance of "I read a lot about NDAs, they seem like something that might make people take us more seriously as businesspeople".