@socketwench Hopefully this makes sense: the thing I worked out is that the Wifi card uses one of the 2 UARTs on the Serial card on pins exposed over the bus. The wifi card doesn't have its own UART

At one point, I had the ESP-Link firmware on the Wifi card and set the jumper to use UART 1 - that let me telnet into the RC2014 instead of using an FTDI serial cable

Later, I flashed zimodem firmware to the ESP8266 and set the wifi jumper to UART 2 - that let me use a serial cable on UART 1 and telnet out to a BBS on UART 2

The tricky thing is only one thing can really use a UART at a time - i.e. can't use an FTDI cable and wifi card at the same time on UART 1

@socketwench Oh and yeah: same thing goes for the RP2040 VGA terminal. It uses one of the UARTs.

So you can have an FTDI serial cable or the terminal on UART 1, but not both

@socketwench It would be possible if each uses a different UART - e.g. I hooked the terminal up to UART 1 for user interface and wifi to UART 2 for outgoing BBS "calls"

@socketwench Also, if you haven't encountered this yet:

On the dual clock board, the first clock drives both the CPU and the baud rate for UART 1 - they're stuck together, so max CPU speed also means 115,200 baud.

The second clock can change the baud rate on UART 2 independently, though.

@mos_8502 this... makes sense... but also causes despair

@socketwench I think most of the other common cards have pre-selected addresses or ports (?) that don't conflict. But if you installed a second CF module, IIRC you'd have to do some jiggerypokery with cutting a PCB trace somewhere

@socketwench I'm a bit fuzzy on this and don't quite understand how the cards are addressed yet.

The special thing about the serial stuff, though, is that there are RX/TX and RX2/TX2 pins on the bus pinout especially for that card (or I guess a serial card like it)

Didn't quite get around to building this Why Em-Ulator Sound Module for my #rc2014 today, but now I'm already googling around for tracker warez to make tunes for it

Got the sound system in my basement working again, played a little DDR and some Rock Band 4. That was pretty cool, but I need to make some friends who want to play Rock Band.

"Dance like no one but the machines of loving grace are watching"

(too pretentious?)

@SynapticRewrite That's the worst Yankee Candle scent in the store

Some jerkwad decided it’s an hour later than it should be, so I guess I’m off to bed later than I meant to

I just keep thinking that the Tesla Model 3 looks like a 1993 Ford Probe but with less-cool headlights

"Dance like the bots aren't watching?"

wherein I did end up finishing the blog post draft I started yesterday about generative AI vs generative thoughtful ecosystems

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2024/03/11/dance-for-the-bots/

Also, y'know, it would be nice if the bots would at least leave a comment before snarfing everything up

Catsby has another, smaller box #cats

Wish I could manage to capture this in a video, but when Catsby gets into a box it kind of looks like a fox hunting in the snow

@Resni ohhh this looks amazing!

Hmm, a US$1.45 order of t-nuts from aliexpress has not arrived 30 days after ordering and the delivery updates seem to have disappeared into a black hole. Tempted to just order them again so I can get on with the project. Not too sad if I end up with extras

@mos_8502 Yeah, I just saw they gave me a US$1 coupon for this order, so I'm not all that sad if it ends up showing up someday