How to?
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:44 pm
Hi,
I'm a dragon user of many years (and many years ago) and I'm in the process of rediscovering all the fun I used to have. At the time I had to make do without any of the fancier elements of using a computer, although I did have the benefit of having two computers which accelerated development of my endeavours greatly. Now with emulators making everything almost instantaneous the slow cycle of build - run - debug is gone but it is still very inconvenient thanks to the limits of emulating cassettes. Snapshots seem to make things much easier but you still have to bootstrap an image at some point...
Back to my question then - I'm trying to configure an emulator to use one of the DOS roms and work from there but so far I just can't get any additional roms to work, so has anyone got a simple guide on how to get it working. It is really driving me nuts.
For now I am just prototyping code by simulating 6809 machine language in vb while I get my whits about me (it has been over 20 years since I did any 6809 coding). Although that does lead me to another question - has anyone had much luck cross-assembling code? It seems to be a much less painful approach but I'm struggling with how to get compiled code into the right format for loading.
I think I'll have to dig out my old hardware as well - no idea where I'll put it of course, even assuming it still works...
I'm a dragon user of many years (and many years ago) and I'm in the process of rediscovering all the fun I used to have. At the time I had to make do without any of the fancier elements of using a computer, although I did have the benefit of having two computers which accelerated development of my endeavours greatly. Now with emulators making everything almost instantaneous the slow cycle of build - run - debug is gone but it is still very inconvenient thanks to the limits of emulating cassettes. Snapshots seem to make things much easier but you still have to bootstrap an image at some point...
Back to my question then - I'm trying to configure an emulator to use one of the DOS roms and work from there but so far I just can't get any additional roms to work, so has anyone got a simple guide on how to get it working. It is really driving me nuts.
For now I am just prototyping code by simulating 6809 machine language in vb while I get my whits about me (it has been over 20 years since I did any 6809 coding). Although that does lead me to another question - has anyone had much luck cross-assembling code? It seems to be a much less painful approach but I'm struggling with how to get compiled code into the right format for loading.
I think I'll have to dig out my old hardware as well - no idea where I'll put it of course, even assuming it still works...