[Techtoolslist] Developing using the 9100

[Phillip Eaton]

Have a look at a  2nd hand Dataman S3 (or an S4, these are a more
expensive update). I used these as an EPROM programmer/emulator for
several years in the 90's, for 27C256's and the like. It might not be
able to do a 2716, but might be able to do so easily with a correctly
constructed adapter.

Phil

On 2 January 2011 18:11, Martin White <martin at guddler.co.uk> wrote:

> Hmm, as interesting as that looks, I was rather hoping for something that doesn't cost hundreds of dollars having already spent a bucket load on the kit that I have. I'm not 100% clear from the description on the site of what size eproms it emulates either. I'd want it to emulate a 2716. And I also don't have a parallel port. Maybe there's something similar that doesn't cost so much though?

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> On 2 Jan 2011, at 16:31, Tony G. wrote:

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>> Yes. I am devloping a 65C02 based pinball machine. I am using an eprom emulator

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>> http://tech-tools.com/er3.htm

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>> I can now run code, change it, download it into the unit and rerun literally within 20 seconds or less. The transfer is under 5 seconds and most of that time is saving and pointing to the right directory.

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>> Tony

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>> --- On Sun, 1/2/11, Martin White <martin at guddler.co.uk> wrote:

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>> From: Martin White <martin at guddler.co.uk>

>> Subject: [Techtoolslist] Developing using the 9100

>> To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist at flippers.com>

>> Date: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 4:52 AM

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>> Happy New Year to everyone!

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>> I've been doing some hacking about over the holidays with code on a 6502 based PCB (Asteroids as it happens). I've got to the point where I want to debug it on the real hardware so obviously the first thing I wanted to do was try and avoid keep burning ROMs all the time. The code is only really a proof of concept so it's very small. I've relocated my code down to zero page and I can transfer it to the PCB's memory that sits from 0 - 3FF.

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>> On the 9100 that works ok. It's a bit of messing about but I can basically assemble the code, convert it to Intel Hex format, transfer it over serial link and then write it to the PCB's memory and execute it. The only caveat is that I needed to burn a dummy ROM that sits at 7800-7FFF which solely contains the interrupt and reset vectors. So far so good.

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>> The problem is that by the time I've avoided the stack that lives at page 1 (100-1FF) I'm really rather restricted on space. Also by relocating down there I loose the ability to test the code in mame as well. That's not essential but it would be nice to retain that.

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>> So does anyone know if there's any other way? Is there a way where I can keep the code where it's meant to live for instance? Preferably without hacking the PCB to put a RAM in there. The manuals for the 9100 very fleetingly mention something called POD overlay RAM which sounds very promising but I've not been able to find anything much more than just a quick mention.

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>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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>> Martin.

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