2 Aug
2007
2 Aug
'07
4:41 p.m.
river wrote:
Hi,
I would have thought "scratch-built" implied
designing and building your own
home brewed system. Building a kit like the Micro-KIM is not a scratch build
exercise. All it will do is give you more practise in soldering.
*In order to make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first create the universe.* - Carl Sagan
End of argument! :)
If the whole purpose of this exercise is to have an
old 8-bit system so you
can program in hex and/or assembler, then you can download an emulator and
play around with it from there. If you mainly want to run things off the
various serial and parallel ports then something like the Micro-KIM would be
useful.
The other disadvantage is with a NEW scratch built computer is the software tools
needed like a assembler.
Ben alias Woodelf