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  1. This fuzzy green bird is Schalow's Turaco (Tauraco schalowi)! This colorful, vocal species inhabits parts of south-central Africa, including Angola, Namibia, and Zambia. It finds its home in evergreen forests or woodlands, where it feeds on a diet of fruit. Males and females are similar in appearance, with bright green-yellow plumage and tall crests.

    Photo: lesbectrotters, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

    via amnhnyc

    #photography
    #birds
    #Turaco

  2. Okay. I've done the work figuring out how Turaco's OS can theoretically support internationalization, and the technical aspects of adapting UTF-8 to a displayable font.

    But here's a question I can't answer: Is it worth actually doing it? Because I have to do several things already:

    • Revise and improve the hardware design
    • Write the BIOS and BDOS and shell
    • Work out logistics of actually producing prototypes

    So, what do you think?

    #retrocomputing #cpm #turaco

  3. So @mos_8502, the vera-turaco.pcf file is what maps the signals to the physical pins on the device. If you want, you can rearrange them to make PCB routing tidier.

    You *can't* move clk50 because it's on a special pin for global clock inputs or extbus_irq_n because it's sharing with SPI_SO, but the *other* signals can be shuffled around however you'd like:

    github.com/swetland/vera-modul

    #projects #turaco #vera

  4. Spent a bit of time last night and this morning getting VERA to build with the open source fpga toolchain (yosys, icestorm, nextpnr, verilator), and started putting together a build for @mos_8502 's Turaco project.

    github.com/swetland/vera-modul

    #projects #vera #fpga #turaco

  5. @mos_8502 Also, sort of a meta point, if you tag your posts (maybe #projects #turaco or the like) finding older ones via links like this becomes possible:
    chaos.social/@swetland/tagged/

    I wish mastodon had a way to view those lists in reverse-chronological order, but any way of finding old posts topically is better than none, imho.