Re: NEWT? Message #4 Posted by Monte Dalrymple on 2 May 2010, 10:36 a.m., in response to message #3 by Angel Martin
A prescient question... This is the week I plan to program the
FPGA and CPLD, connect the first prototype to a donor calc and
apply power. I have had the boards since before the first of
the year, but have been otherwise occupied.
The Flash memory is programmed with the OS and new code to
manage the expanded memory. I went through the OS and tagged
the sections that need to always run at 1x, so that's ready
to go (but the max speed is 50x, not 100x).
The "expanded functions", written in mcode, allow users to
"virtually" plug and unplug ROM images from the ports exactly
like it would be done physically, which was always my goal.
I hope to have a finished calc in time for HHC, even though I
may or may not be able to actually attend.
Thanks for asking. I wasn't sure that anyone was still
interested in the project. Had I been working on this full-
time it would ahve been done five years ago. Oh well.
Monte Dalrymple
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