On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, B. Watson wrote:
> > > I'll call it FrankenCart...
> >
> > Hmmm...that's what I called my first attempt. Must be a common name. :)
> >
>
> If it had a neck, I'm sure there would be a couple of bolts sticking out
> of it :)
Heh....mine *has* the bolts!!! I bolted the ZIF socket to the PCB... :P
> Ergh. I've been planning to learn PIC assembly for a while now.. The roommate
> keeps telling me I'm wasting my time with all this 6502 stuff...
Don't listen to them!!!! The 6502 rules all!
(Ok...the 6809 rules all, but hey! :)
The PIC is useful, but you can learn to use them in an afternoon. After that,
where is the fun? The only challenge is finding a project to work on. You'll
never run out of challenge trying to write for the 2600. :P
But when I say programmable logic, I don't mean MCU or MPU. I mean PLDs and
the like. With a 20MHz PIC, you only get an instruction every 200ns. That's
fast enough for something like this, but it's pushing it. PLDs can be had
with ahhh..."response times" of < 5ns. (I'm grouping everything into a
generic "response" that basically has no real meaning.)
And they're cheap. Sorta.
> We should be starting on the 8k bankswitched version pretty soon. I remember
> getting those 13-input AND gates and wondering, `wtf would this ever be good
> for?', now I know :)
Yep...address decoding. Take a look at an old ISA card for the PC. You'll most
likely find a 74133 hidden someplace.
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