[coco] advice needed

Mark Marlette mark at cloud9tech.com
Tue Nov 1 15:57:55 EST 2005


Roy,

Amen to the last sentence.......I HEAR you! :)

Mark

Quoting RJRTTY at aol.com:

> coco people
>
>       I have investigated further and Robert  is right, there is
> the danger a piece of software or game could lock the screen out.
> Although the manual designates that signal as an input,
> SECB leaves it as an output by default.     A simple  program
> to poke 12 to &HFF22 and a holding loop to keep out of basic
> edit mode will cut the monitor.    Therefore, I have no  choice
> but to make the micro controller capable of receiving I2C
> data input.    What I have done so far  uses only  about
> 14% of the programming memory on the controller so
> that is not a problem.   It's just going to be a little  more
> time before I can start shipping these things out.   I  can't
> wait till all I have to worry about is unit assembly.   It  will
> be like a vacation compared to development.
>
> peace
>
> Roy
>
>
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