28 Feb
2008
28 Feb
'08
11:17 a.m.
On Thu, February 28, 2008 10:17 am, Josef Chessor wrote:
I'd dreamed of having a "Generic Front Panel", 16-bit address/8-bit
data, hooked up via RS-232 for simulator uses. I admit that your idea
controlling a PC in this way would be really, really cool. Of limited
utility outside of learning, though.
/me too! I was talking a few days ago about how I couldn't afford an Altair
or IMSAI, so I'd like to make a box with a pc inside running an emulator, and
a front panel with altair-like switches connected to serial or parallel port
via an atmel avr microcontroller, which a cp/m emulator reads as the front
panel.
All that's needed is a catchy project name, and you just provided it: the
"Generic Front Panel for Emulators (GFPE)" project.
jdavis