🎂 KIM-1 Demo Project A small but heartfelt demo celebrating the 50th birthday of the legendary MOS KIM-1 🖥️✨ The KIM-1 first became available in January 1976 — three months before the Apple I 🍎 and one month after its sibling, the TIM. An incredible milestone in early microcomputer history! For this demo, I’ve gathered and connected a few components that were scattered across my repositories 🧩. The goal is not just to look back, but to celebrate, experiment, and build together. I warmly invite fellow retro-computing enthusiasts and comrades-in-arms 🤝 to jump in, contribute ideas, add modules, demos, or improvements, and help this project grow. Let’s keep the spirit of early computing alive 🚀 🎉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KIM-1! 🎉 Wishing you — and all of us — a fantastic and hacky Year 2026 🥳✨ kim-1_demo.mp4 Things that are very useful in this code: Take any coordinates in HEX out of the memory and use them to place your cursor. The problem is, that to position your cursur, you need to send the x/y coordinates as single chars to the terminal program, like (ESC)[xx;yyH - Imagine just having hex data, i.e. $20 (32 dec) and you need to send a 3 and a 2 separated to your terminal... This routine will do it - seperate the tens from the ones. Now you can like draw a rectangle, a circle or whatever. You can start a painting program if you like.
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