Comment by spacedcowboy

Oh, I do. I'm building a two-story 1000 sq.ft garage right now - more workshop than garage tbh [1], I've just built a roll-off-roof observatory [2], the currently empty pad behind it is for a radio-telescope, last set up in London [3], still needs to be assembled in the new house. Right now I'm into the fun stuff of automating everything in the observatory. I've also recently taken up archery, and I'm enjoying that. I've written (well Claude has) an optimising compiler for a memory-managing language for the 6502 [4], but I'm just instrumenting (this bit is me) the IR so it can also target the M chip on my Mac. Eventually it'll also target m68k so I can bring up the Atari ST on the FPGA that is currently just emulating the atari 8-bit (I have a 120MHz 6502 at the moment :). The 'x' in 'xt' is from 'atari Xl' and the 't' is from 'atari sT'. The compiler is called 'xtc'. Both will run MiNT and the blitter on the FPGA is designed to integrate well with GEM, the graphics environment on the ST - even the XL version will have a graphical UI running at 1080p :)

So I have a few things to keep me busy right now.

1: http://0x0000ff.co.uk/img/garage/garage-layout.png

2: http://0x0000ff.co.uk/img/observatory/roll-off-roof-observat...

3: http://0x0000ff.co.uk/img/dish/dish.jpg

4: http://atari-xt.com/