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 |  Bill Henning Registered Member

       Date Joined Sep 2006 Total Posts : 962 | Posted 7/17/2009 3:21 PM (GMT -8) |   | | | |
 |  hover1 I have 3 Propellers

       Date Joined Sep 2007 Total Posts : 374 | Posted 7/17/2009 3:37 PM (GMT -8) |   | Bill,
Very Nice!!
Is that the "school board" on top of the full stack?
Creating new Accounts Payable to Morpheus :)
Jim | | Back to Top | | |
    |  Bill Henning Registered Member

       Date Joined Sep 2006 Total Posts : 962 | Posted 7/17/2009 4:01 PM (GMT -8) |   | | | |
 |  Bill Henning Registered Member

       Date Joined Sep 2006 Total Posts : 962 | Posted 7/17/2009 4:12 PM (GMT -8) |   | Hi TrapperBob!
Thank you...
Glad to hear you have them assembled. I will be posting the keyboard/mouse diagnostics later today - sorry for the delay, but there is so much documentation etc to do!
I actually only have a partial schematic for the CPU2 side, looks like while I was cleaning up the Eagle directories and backups I managed to lose the full schematic, and I can't find the backup DVD! No matter, it was out of date. When I have a bit of time, I will do a full schematic.
Until then, the "System Architecture" diagram has all the pin information, and sometime tomorrow I hope to post the VGA256 diagnostic - which is actually a 640x240 two color (from a palette of 256 colors) driver, it even has a primitive "plot character" routine - just need the bitmaps for all the rest of the ASCII characters. It also has "plot pixel", and only uses hub memory.
Sometime next week I'll be posting the XGA driver (1024x768, four colors from a 256 color palette, soon to be modified for a separate palette per scan line), even though it still has an occasional sync problem. I have two ways around it, one is it can notice if it is out of sync, and it can try to re-sync... once it gets in sync, it will run indefinitely (until it is rebooted).
Right now, since the product shots and the build manual photo's are done, I am working through the testing section of the manual, looking for bugs and ways to improve it, as well as simplifying and getting the diagnostics ready for public consumption.
After that is done, I'll work on the XGA driver for a couple of days before writing the Mem+ build manual.
Sorry guys, I need a few days break from documentation.
During this time I will also be finishing the "Morpheus Systems Architecture and Developer's Guide" - the reference on theory of operations, and how to program the memory, VGA256 etc., it will also cover the Mem+ board.
Then comes the 256x192x256 gaming driver 
Knowing you guys are appreciating my doing this, plus y'alls enthusiasm for Morpheus is what makes me work crazy hours to make the best Propeller products!
As for help... keep giving me great feedback and suggestions like you have been... and after I have a couple of drivers out, go nuts porting and writing great apps for the platform!
And later, port/write lots of games... Morpheus is a killer gaming platform.
Bill
TrapperBob said... Bill,
The boards look great! Your pictures look so much better than I am able to take of my boards at this point. I have both the Morpheus and Mem+ boards assembled minus the stacking connectors which I am waiting to purchase from you. I have been running some simple diagnostics on the Morpheus board but it is not easy without "drawing" out the schematics for me. Look forward to you publishing you diagnostics and drivers as well as the developer's manual and the rest of the documentation package. Looking forward to being able to order the connectors as well as the school board and probably another whole system in a short period of time. I (we) appreciate your hard work and long hours in this endeavor.
Please let us know if there is anything we can help with!
TrapperBob www.mikronauts.com - my site 6.250MHz custom Crystals for running Propellers at 100MHz Las - Large model assembler for the Propeller Largos - a feature full nano operating system for the Propeller Morpheus & Mem+ Advanced dual Propeller SBC with XMM and 256 Color VGA Please use mikronauts _at_ gmail _dot_ com to contact me off-forum, my PM is almost totally full | | Back to Top | | |
   |  Bill Henning Registered Member

       Date Joined Sep 2006 Total Posts : 962 | Posted 7/17/2009 9:10 PM (GMT -8) |   | | | |
 |  Ale Registered Member

       Date Joined May 2007 Total Posts : 1267 | Posted 7/17/2009 9:30 PM (GMT -8) |   | | | |
             |  mpark Registered Member
        Date Joined May 2007 Total Posts : 682 | Posted 7/20/2009 1:12 PM (GMT -8) |   | | OK, who's going to be the first to implement Cylon lights on Morpheus? | | Back to Top | | |
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