Another Dragon user chiming in
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:06 pm
Dear all,
About time I registered on the forum after lurking here for several months. Over Christmas I had the idea of checking out the old Dragon 32 stuff in my parents' attic and seeing if I could recover my first computer programs from the old tapes. Although being thermocycled +/-30 degrees C over soon 30 years the tapes were still fine!
While looking for ways to backup and access the tape contents on more modern storage facilities I came across Ciaran's xroar emulator - portable, GPL licensed, actively maintained in git - what more can you ask for? gdb support? Hey wait - he's adding that as well
This helped me with securing the tape contents but also got me hooked... I guess I have caught the retro bug, but I could also say the love for compact code and 6809 programming has been there all the time! Actually did some MC68HC908 programming a couple of years back who brough back 6809 memories.
I have an itch to continue on some ideas from back then, and hopefully more hardware hacks, taking advantage of the now somewhat easier access to information and material than I had in the good old days.
OK, I did not sign up here to talk about myself I'll post more interesting stuff in new threads.
Regards,
Tormod
About time I registered on the forum after lurking here for several months. Over Christmas I had the idea of checking out the old Dragon 32 stuff in my parents' attic and seeing if I could recover my first computer programs from the old tapes. Although being thermocycled +/-30 degrees C over soon 30 years the tapes were still fine!
While looking for ways to backup and access the tape contents on more modern storage facilities I came across Ciaran's xroar emulator - portable, GPL licensed, actively maintained in git - what more can you ask for? gdb support? Hey wait - he's adding that as well
This helped me with securing the tape contents but also got me hooked... I guess I have caught the retro bug, but I could also say the love for compact code and 6809 programming has been there all the time! Actually did some MC68HC908 programming a couple of years back who brough back 6809 memories.I have an itch to continue on some ideas from back then, and hopefully more hardware hacks, taking advantage of the now somewhat easier access to information and material than I had in the good old days.
OK, I did not sign up here to talk about myself
I'll post more interesting stuff in new threads.Regards,
Tormod