3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
10:12 a.m.
compoobah at valleyimplants.com wrote:
Sounds like I'm back with 6809 as being easier to
work with.
I'll sit down with what I've got here and see what I can come
up with (I'm more interested in designing than just having a
"soldering skills test").
I love fooling around with old microprocessors too, but one of my issues
is that I hate writing software for them. After I get all the hardware
built, I'm kind of stuck with the question "Now what???" Toggling in
little
LED blinking programs and things like that gets old pretty fast. That's one
reason I picked the 6120 - OS/8 and related stuff is readily available on
the Internet - and the Elf - there's lots of original Elf software around,
plus Mike Riley did a great job writing a real disk OS for it.
I know there was at one time an OS/9 for the 6809 - does anybody know the
status of that today? Is there other software for the 6809 floating around
these days?
Of course, you may not share my hangups about writing software ...
Bob