I think Andrew has been good about giving write access to N8VEM to anyone who asks. So that might work?
Todd On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Don Caprio <[email protected]> wrote: > AFAIK, Josh is the only one I've heard that has a fully functional FPmini. > He has a hacked up beta board working. Mine operates except for the Deposit > function. To be honest I haven't spent the needed time to debug. > > I've only tested with Josh's 8080 board. I was hoping to give it a try on > some > different hardware configurations to see if it behaves differently. Maybe we > should > create a new group for front panel discussions. It would be great to > have a common collaboration spot so were not searching through this group > and > emails. I suppose the N8VEM PBworks site would be best for now but I don't > think everyone has write access. I'm open to ideas. > > > > > On 04/20/15 10:48 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote: > > Hello all, > > It's been a while since I've been able to sit down in front of my machine to > try to debug the issues I'm having with the FP mini I recently built. > > As a recap, I've got the FP mini installed in a Northstar Horizon that is > otherwise fully functional. Basically, the FP Mini is not working correctly > at all in this configuration. The only function that works is the Examine > function. I can successfully load an address, and examine it. I can > manually change the address and examine other memory locations, and > consistently get the correct values. All other functions (examine next, > deposit, deposit next) give me nonsense results. > > Tonight, I was working on an unrelated project - restoring a California > Computer Systems 6116 16k RAM board. Without boring you with the > restoration details, I have a single 4K bank currently working (burning in > the 2114 RAM chips a few at a time). I thought I'd give the FP mini a try > with this board. I have more functionality! I can Examine and Deposit > successfully now! Examine Next and Deposit Next are still giving me > nonsense values (random addresses), but this is very encouraging! > > The difference? The Northstar was originally running with a Northstar HRAM > 64k dynamic RAM board, which has never given me any issues. Now I'm using a > CCS 16k Static RAM board. I'm wondering if it's a static-vs-dynamic thing. > Anyone else running the FP mini in a dynamic RAM machine? > > The list has been quiet about the FP mini recently. I'd like to hear how > everyone else is doing - does anyone else have more functionality than this? > > Thanks! > > Ian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "N8VEM-S100" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Don Caprio > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "N8VEM-S100" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
