Usagi Electric | Wangwriter Pt.3 – It Runs Zork! @UsagiElectric | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
This is bananas, I thought it would be months before we had something usable happening with the Wangwriter, but 256byteram is an absolute legend and got some really special stuff cooked up for us in this episode! But, there’s a few things we gotta fix first, so let’s hop into and get this machine doing computery stuff!

Check out 256byteram’s code here:
github.com/256byteram/WangWriter

Everything on the Wangwriter will ultimately be available here:
github.com/Nakazoto/WangWriter5503/wiki

Check out Rich’s page on his Wangwriter here:
ricapar.net/wang-writer-5503

Colin hooked me up with the Wangwriter, so check out his Facebook page for rare vacuum tubes:
facebook.com/groups/2009005339280149

I also borrowed a bit of footage from Retrobits, check out there YT channel here:
youtube.com/@retrobitstv

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patreon.com/usagielectric

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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847

Thanks for watching!

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:22 Figuring out output and input
5:00 Checking the keyboard scancodes
6:29 Repairing the foam and foil keyboard
8:50 A closer look at the keyboard PCB
10:07 Checking the keyboard scancodes… again
11:28 Getting 256byteram’s program onto a floppy
14:41 CP what?!
16:03 Zork works! Job done, right? Right?
17:12 47k aint enough…
20:20 What’s the endgame here?
21:18 Bunny!