[M100] Homemade 8085

2018-02-19 Thread Kevin Becker
This kid made a CPU on breadboards which he says is based on the 8085. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ZaioqF1B0

Re: [M100] DVI help

2018-02-19 Thread Randall Kindig
Brian, you are absolutely correct. You sent me everything I possibly needed to understand how this should work and I managed to ignore some of it. I really, really appreciate all your help. I’m just pumped that both DVI’s work when for a while I thought neither did. I will check the disk to

Re: [M100] TDock

2018-02-19 Thread Joan Leach
I remember reading in Puppy's Barry blog when he was building out his Pi systems that he used 5-way expansion to his various RAM cards and devices...that should help? I have a netbook, laptop and xeon server that cannot use standard hard drives for various reasons, so I use a read-only boot

Re: [M100] modern cross-assemblers for M100?

2018-02-19 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Ken Pettit wrote: > On 2/19/18 10:29 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:10 AM, megarat wrote: > >> >> So I'm curious about what cross-assemblers people would use today for >> developing such

Re: [M100] TDock

2018-02-19 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Kevin Becker wrote: > Running the Pi from a read-only filesystem would prevent shutdown problems. > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/adafruits-read-only/ > > > True, but then you can't use it for storage, right? If you're just using it

Re: [M100] TDock

2018-02-19 Thread Kevin Becker
Running the Pi from a read-only filesystem would prevent shutdown problems. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/adafruits-read-only/ On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:22 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:04 AM, megarat wrote: > >> >> A

Re: [M100] modern cross-assemblers for M100?

2018-02-19 Thread Ken Pettit
On 2/19/18 10:29 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:10 AM, megarat > wrote: So I'm curious about what cross-assemblers people would use today for developing such software on the M100. Is there a standard "go-to"

Re: [M100] modern cross-assemblers for M100?

2018-02-19 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:10 AM, megarat wrote: > > So I'm curious about what cross-assemblers people would use today for > developing such software on the M100. Is there a standard "go-to" package > that is used by the Model T community? I noticed GNUSim8085, which seems >

[M100] modern cross-assemblers for M100?

2018-02-19 Thread megarat
Greetings again, folks.  So my primary reason for getting back into the M100 is to sharpen my skills in 8085 assembly programming.  I have ROM2/Cleuseau, both as a standalone option ROM and by way of REX, and while this is a satisfying way to play around an learn, I have a long-term aspiration

Re: [M100] TDock

2018-02-19 Thread megarat
My feelings about this are pretty similar, but they don't have to do with "modern vs. retro", but rather, "how much life support is required to get the system working"?  Accomplishing a single technical objective with a full-fledged computer with a modern operating system ,when it could be