As I write this, it’s early on the evening of July 25th, and I’m staring next Thursday’s deadline in the face. I haven’t been able to work on my Retrochallenge entry for over a week, and it’s in poor shape.
But am I going to give up? No way. I’m going to go down fighting.
My over-enthusiastic early plans called for me to finish up my 6502 ROM monitor so early that I’d have time to work on cleaning and sorting my RL02 packs. That, needless to say, is not going to happen. Instead, I’m going to concentrate on polishing up and documenting my monitor this weekend. Whatever I have ready to go next week will just have to be good enough. It won’t be as fully-featured as I originally wanted, but at least it’s something, and at least it works.
I have to pick my remaining features pretty carefully now. I want to enhance the Deposit and Examine commands to add syntax that will allow auto-incrementing the address, and then work on tying my monitor into EhBASIC, so I can run it on my home-brew 6502 after Retrochallenge is over.
It’s a race to the finish, now. Expect an update from me on Sunday or Monday. Until then, I’m face down in the code!
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