* <<F8V.0708>> PROJECTS Lots of things I'd like to be working on right now. Getting reacquainted with 6502 assembly the past couple of nights. Bashed-out a simple little program to stuff random numbers into POKEY and GTIA's player/missile registers; having to re-learn how to restructure programs in assembly, how to do comparisons and loops – basically everything. Originally I wanted to write my chain sequencer to use display-list interrupts for timing – that would give a 1/60 second system clock – but in light of the fact that I have my DR-55 available, and the Atari is already modded to accept a clock in the form of a BREAK key interrupt, I might as well go-ahead and write it to work with the external clock. This also came to mind because I have been finding minimal electronic/cold wave music to be inspiring lately, and the DR-55 has a great old analog drum sound that I'd like to play with. On the visual-art front, two things: I want to re-work some old illustrations like Invex The Invisible Man and Atari Force Pyjamas into a newer style. Invex is 5 years old, and the pyjamas piece is even older – I've improved a lot since then. Those (and others) are solid compositions, though, and I'd like to fix 'em up and sell them as prints. I also want to do some landscape painting. Digital, of course. I have snapped a few photos with my phone camera that I think have the fundamentals of strong compositions, but I'd like to abstract them into good paintings. Not something I've done much of before, but something I think I can do. I have to try. My project for right this moment is to eat this bowl of ramen in my lap. Terrible ramen – Mr. Noodles – but I stuck an egg, a sheet of nori, and a dollop of red chili paste into it, so it might just hit the spot. -- Excerpted from: PUBLIC NOTES (F) http://alph.laemeur.com/txt/PUBNOTES-F ©2015 Adam C. Moore (LÆMEUR) <adam@laemeur.com>