3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
10:22 a.m.
There is a free clone of OS9 called NitroOS. It's at http://
www.nitros9.org/.
Does that mean we're likely to see a cool 6809 board from Spare Time
Gizmos sometime soon? Put me on the list for one!
On Dec 3, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
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