3 Feb
2007
3 Feb
'07
8:53 a.m.
On Feb 3, 2007, at 12:52 AM, Scott Quinn wrote:
I surely can't be the only one to have thought of hex...
Nope...I know three or four people who did that.
The nerds would then hack these to say 99 MHz.
The ubernerds would hack them to say 1111 MHz...
...and "who cares" dummies like yours truly would simply hack them to
say "HI" and "LO"... Anyone hacked their Z-80 with a analog meter yet?
Seems the easiest
(just pull off of the M1 line).
That'd give you a fairly constant reading...not very exciting.
Not many Z80 systems have variable clock rates. Though building one
wouldn't be difficult.
I had an interesting thought while considering the analog meter on
the Z80 idea. I do some Forth hacking on Z80s. It'd be pretty easy
to hack in a couple of instructions to pulse an output line at the
beginning of the routine that executes a Forth word. That'd give you
an analog display of the word execution rate. Since different words
require different amounts of time to execute, it might actually give
you some sort of meaningful display.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL