[Coco] Kipper SBC v1.1

[Kip Koon]

Hi Ed,
> Once you have a serial connection and some storage, all you’d need is a simple OS of some kind that supports serial transfer and basic storage in ROM and you’d be ready to start development (on an external PC).
Very true.
> I definitely wouldn’t ditch the serial port on the base board, pretty essential on this type of SBC (or at least really helpful).  
Agreed.  I definitely want a serial port at least on the Kipper SBC of any type.
> Though with a programmer and cross assembler on a pc, and a ROM socket on the SBC you could get by.
That is how I envisioned doing development on this type of platform just like the giants of yesteryear used to do.
> I haven’t been following this, but what how is the memory set up/divided between ROM & RAM?
32KB of static ram at $0000-$7FFFF - so far, 16KB of rom at $C000-$FFFF.
> What kind of startup code is available for the ROM on this board so far?
Grant Searle's modified Microsoft Extended Basic - a 9KB image from the Coco 2 in rom.

Kip Koon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Zippster
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:07 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Kipper SBC v1.1

Once you have a serial connection and some storage, all you’d need is a simple OS of some kind that supports serial transfer and basic storage in ROM and you’d be ready to start development (on an external PC).

I definitely wouldn’t ditch the serial port on the base board, pretty essential on this type of SBC (or at least really helpful).  Though with a programmer and cross assembler on a pc, and a ROM socket on the SBC you could get by.

I haven’t been following this, but what how is the memory set up/divided between ROM & RAM?
What kind of startup code is available for the ROM on this board so far?

- Ed 


> On Mar 11, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You'd have to type them in with the first iteration anyway: The serial port was for connecting your console device. Unless of course you were using a terminal program in a GUI and could cut/paste code to and from the SBC every time.
> 
> 
> 
>> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:47:40 -0400
>> From: alhartman6 at optonline.net
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Kipper SBC v1.1
>> 
>> Please don't be angry at me for saying this...
>> 
>> But, now that you've eliminated the serial port, how do we save and 
>> load programs?
>> 
>> We'll have to type them in each time we want to use them.
>> 
>> -[ Al ]-


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