I have a 9100 as well, just never turned it on.... It's just that I am at the edge of my competence with software here and was thinking that at least emulating the 9010 would get some folks thinking further along the way...guess I should bring the 9100 home and start working on it. I am expecting a Logic Analyzer to show up soon and then I will have the codes from the pod(s) at least... Plus I am trying to run a business and raise two kids...just like the rest of us. John :-#)# At 09:52 AM 04/04/2002 -0500, Corey Stup wrote:
Yes the idea is to figure out how to communicate with the PODs & emulate what the base does, not necesarily emulate the base. Well, thats what I thought from the initial talks, but then when the focus was shifted to emulating 6520's and Z80's, it seemed to drift...
Heck if we are thinking emulating bases then why aren't we focused on the bigger brother, 9100 series? I only know of one list reader that even has one of these beast. I have 2 9100's. Its a FAR more advanced system, especially when coupled with all the extra physical hardware testing. I have a really nice automated setup for testing the 6532's on Gottlieb Sys80 boards. I can clip a 6502 pod "over top" the micro, and run test code to exersize the 6532 I/O ports, reading all 40 pins state, real time, using the 9100 I/O adaptors.
If we are going to emulate ANY Fluke hardware, the 9100 makes far more sense. Its 68000 based, with OS/9 running as a simple RTOS. Fluke has some really powerful software included with the system, including a trace diagnosis system that follows a decision tree.
Well we need to know the basics first, and there is no know documentation on the inner workings of the communication between the base & the pods. Once this is know, documented & available we can then concentrate on which way to go.
I belive it is also important to make steady progress rather than trying to think of every enhancement we want and then build it. Just look at the Arcade ICE or RatBox projects if you want to see what that thinking produces. I agree. I just don't see what you even "get" in the end by emulating the 9010A exactly. Figuring out the communication between the base and the pod is not dependant on getting a emulated 9010A setup on a PC.
I don't consider this feature-creep at all. Just a better direction, in my opinion.