Re: A92: Plus and emulators
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Re: A92: Plus and emulators
> What do you mean, "no real programming"? Personally I've never used an
> emulator for programming purposes at all (though with the increasing amount
> of dust under my 92II's LCD I may start doing so).
>
It is *possible* to program without an emulator, but it is rather cumbersome
and unwieldy. Due to the nature of assembly programming, every little piece of
code has to be tested: if you write several pieces of code and a program that
once worked no longer does, it makes troubleshooting much more difficult. An
emulator provides a way to immedeatly test your code without taking your eyes
off the screen. The ideal programming environment that I have found is running
the editor in one window, compiler in another window, and an emulator running
db92 in a third window. With DOSKEY and a modified fargo.bat, the compiling
and testing process is really just a few keystrokes. Furthermore, I can't get
the serial port on my computer to work and no software for parallel port
linking exists to date (If someone can prove me wrong on this, I will be
overjoyed). For these reasons, it is unlikely that I will undertake any major
project (like continuing to develop TiDOS) until there is an emulator for the
Plus module.
> About the ROM dump: it shouldn't be that hard to convert the Fargo II
> romdump programs to PlusShell. The problem is that if *any*
> hardware-interacting adresses have maved then Tiger most likely won't work
> at all... An easy way out would be if Tiger could support the .tib-files
> that the 92+ ROM flasher program uses.
>
I hope the author of Tiger is reading this.
> Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr
> PQF Quote follows:
>
> English Burger Lords managed to take any American fast food virtues (the
> speed with which your food was delivered, for example) and carefully remove
> them; your food arrived after half an hour, at room temperature, and it was
> only because of the strip of warm lettuce between them that you could
> distinguish the burger from the bun. The Burger Lord pathfinder salesmen
> had been shot 25 minutes after setting foot in France.
> -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
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