Category Archives: C

Programming Books for Retro Machines

Posted on December 22, 2023 by admin

Over the past 4 years I have been on the look out for some programming books for the retro machines, computers and the original classic consoles from the early 1980’s when I stumbled across an author named Oscar Toledo G. … Continue reading →

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Vital Message

Posted on August 25, 2020 by admin

My second BASIC to C conversion using the classic Usborne 1980s computer books which helped many of today’s tech professionals were inspired by the Usborne computing books they read as children. The books included program listings for such iconic computers as the … Continue reading →

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Robot Missile

Posted on August 24, 2020 by admin

Usborne 1980s computer books helped many of today’s tech professionals were inspired by the Usborne computing books they read as children. The books included program listings for such iconic computers as the ZX Spectrum, the BBC Micro and the Commodore 64, … Continue reading →

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Blinking LED

Posted on August 20, 2020 by admin

Raspberry Pi project #1, the blinking of an LED using C and the wiringPi library. I know this isn’t necessarily anything special but I wanted to record my little projects and what better place to start than by building a … Continue reading →

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Day of Week

Posted on July 29, 2020 by admin

Here is a simply C program that lets you enter a number from 1 -7 (valid options) or higher than 7 as an invalid entry. Using multiple if…else decisions the program will display a corresponding day of the week.

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Hello World ‘C’

Posted on July 16, 2020 by admin

Been playing around with my Raspberry Pi 4 which I’ve installed in a great retro looking desktop case. Anyway I’ve never written anything in C for the Pi so though I’d have a go putting out the classic ‘Hello World’

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