Recent content by Digital Larry

I'm not that familiar with DA's kit but I'm fairly sure a PICKit 2 (or more likely, clone) would work well for programming. Also look into the CH341, although I have no personal experience with it. Regarding SpinCAD, you load "banks" of 8 patches or individual patches into the 8 slots and then...

You do get the actual count if you hover your mouse over the Instructions Used resource bar.

Hi Ted, well I had considered somehow displaying how "awesome" the optimizer is, but the flip side of that perspective is that it would just be pointing out the shortcomings of SpinCAD. So it's thrilling for me after all these years to have an approach, but I don't think anyone else cares as...

Before everyone gets too excited, the example I showed skews towards over-representing its capability. You really don't get much of anything from optimization until you are going over the 128 instruction limit. I tried a few different large designs and got from 2 to 5 instructions saved...

Among more elite crowds, over the tinkling of glasses of chardonnay, one can occasionally discern such statements as: "SpinCAD generates such terribly inefficient code!" accompanied by clutching of pearls and so on. I wasn't even planning on working on this, but you know how that goes. Anyway...

For anyone trying to get their special needs kids help in the public school system in the US I highly recommend this book. Yes after several years I came to the conclusion that the people at the district really WANTED to help, but they also REALLY HAD TO make it as difficult as possible. We...

My twin boys are almost 21 and are level 1. I think they're perfectly normal but the world does not. They both made it out of high school anyway. Quite the adventure along the way (that I have mostly blocked from memory). Life is so much easier that we are not constantly doing battle with...

The irony of SpinCAD's outplaced position in my life is that I wrote it because I disliked writing FV-1 assembler so much. All the experience with those other "grown-up" languages will barely help you at all in the world of FV-1 assembler! The other irony is that as a result of all this time...

I surpassed my fundraising goals. Thanks everyone! Note: this does not mean I am not accepting further donations. :ROFLMAO: DL

I did! It works! Thanks a ton! DL

@Giorfida sorry about your troubles there. I'm not too familiar with the Github app. I just used the "Sponsor" button on the webpage in my browser. If you like I can send you an e-mail address for Paypal. I appreciate your determination! DL

All right. I got a few donations, which is way better than nothing. Thanks to all who contributed! For those who were on the fence, it's not too late! Hahah. I hate these long pledge drives and I'll stop it now until the next one. ;) 💰 New release...

Well you're too kind! Someone else has already contributed as well. I really appreciate it. DL

LOL I meant total. 💰

Let me know if this is not appropriate somehow. I've made a few more fixes to SpinCAD Designer and added a new block. The new "Ratio" block is really handy for things like chorus, flanger, and oil-can delays, to create two control signals over a given range whose product remains constant...