English

The Cody Computer Book

Photography by Frederick John Milens III and Ashanna Biliter. Written in HTML5 and converted to PDF using Weasyprint. Typefaces used are Orkney, Anka Coder Narrow, and CMU Typewriter. Artwork created with Inkscape and KiCad. Photographs for the book content were taken on a Nikon 1 S1. For more information and sources/designs please visit www.codycomputer.org. THIS IS A DRAFT COPY Welcome to The Cody Computer Book, a guide to building and programming your own 8-bit computer. The computer you'll build is inspired by the popular home computers of the 1980s—particularly the Commodore series—though it is not a direct clone of or compatible with any of them. Rather, it tries to be a somewhat-faithful modern take on a computer from that era, with many of the same limitations that inspired ingenuity and creativity in an earlier time. Some aspects have been updated and others simplified for ease of use, but in all cases we've tried to preserve the aesthetic of the era. Most of all, we've tried to make it approachable and fun. If you follow the book, you'll build a computer with a period-appropriate 65C02 processor running at 1 megahertz and accessing 64 kilobytes of memory. You'll get an an

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