RE: James has been busy!

Let me sell off my 9010A bases before someone makes a PC interface
for the pods!

Sigh.

I agree though, that would be best - a number of people have looked
into it and said they were going to do it...nothing so far though.

John :-#)#

At 7:25 PM -0400 9/13/05, James Bright wrote:
>Yeah, that's his name. The source code was there... or mostly there....
>if I recall. It's not really all that tough to do because the scripts
>that are delivered to the 9010A are really just keystrokes encoded a
>specific way. The tedious part is that implementing a parser/syntax
>checker/compiler and that is really not a whole lot of fun from a
>programming perspective... BTW, by looking at his code was how I figured
>out a little bit about "thunking down" to the z80 code.
>
>A much more interesting project would be an adapter to control the pods
>from a PC. Quite a bit of work to get that completed (which is why I've
>been keeping my eye on some of the Fluke emulation work), but it would
>open up the possibility of using a more structured language to write
>scripts. For example, wouldn't it be nice to use a CRC check instead of
>a Signature check for ROMs... which is a little hard to implement with
>existing script language.
>
>I'll start thinking about what enhancements I can do with
>tech.quarterarcade.com.
>
>JB
>
>
>--James Bright
>www.QuarterArcade.com
>Restored Arcade Games for your Home
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: techtoolslist-bounces@flippers.com [mailto:techtoolslist-
>> bounces@flippers.com] On Behalf Of John Robertson
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:12 PM
>> To: Technical Tools Mail List
>> Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] James has been busy!
>>
>> No, there is another one, written by a Fredric L. Rice that he gave
>> to the Fluke community (it's on the FTP somewhere) back in 2002. I
>> don't think he included the source code though. I have sent him a
>> note to see if he is interested in parting with that - assuming his
>> email still works!
>>
>> John :-#)#
>>
>> At 6:50 PM +0100 9/13/05, Martin White wrote:
>> >Don't forget that the compiler is just the command line one that
>> >came with the 9010a. Therefore proprietry.
>> >
>> >I think!
>> >
>> >On 13 Sep 2005, at 18:32, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
>> >
>> >>On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, John Robertson wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>The scripts run on the Fluke 9010A (Z80)...or are you speaking
>about
>> the
>> >>>compiler?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>I was, sorry.
>> >>
>> >>
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