Props to the PROP and PropHEADZ
codeviper
Posts: 208
First I would like to say this forum inspired me to pick the PROP chip and the DEMO board was my board of choice
my current board is similar to a demo board but just the composite on pins 12,13,14 and sd on 0,1,2,3 NES controllers on 4,5,6,7 and keyboard on 26,27 and I plan to use a second prop chip and perhaps a couple of AVRs for math routines and to interface with other stuff.
I am close to using my prop like a real computer.mine uses KYEDOS, and a calculator i adjusted from the forums to cover Floating Point, i just cant get sphinx to work. but i do have fun with femtoBasic I just wish it used KYE's FAT16/32 driver
any way i realy like the PROP and it has audacious potential I would like to see a faster PROP 1 eventually same design just made from a newer transistor substrate but i think it my be at only 10% of its potential, i currently do use my PROP as a portable computer and it runs with an NTSC screen and 6 Ni-Cad batteries. its perfect for electronics work. I think all of you are doing awesome work, and wanted to give a big thanks to everyone here for working on this amazing little chip which in my honest opinion is one amazing little full featured device.
if anyone think they could compile sphinx for my layout that be welcome.
my prop computer as i call it is heading for stage 2
I'm adding a second PROP and working out a shared memory bank of SPI rams.
I plan to use the final board both for fun and work, its mainly for fun though
my current board is similar to a demo board but just the composite on pins 12,13,14 and sd on 0,1,2,3 NES controllers on 4,5,6,7 and keyboard on 26,27 and I plan to use a second prop chip and perhaps a couple of AVRs for math routines and to interface with other stuff.
I am close to using my prop like a real computer.mine uses KYEDOS, and a calculator i adjusted from the forums to cover Floating Point, i just cant get sphinx to work. but i do have fun with femtoBasic I just wish it used KYE's FAT16/32 driver
any way i realy like the PROP and it has audacious potential I would like to see a faster PROP 1 eventually same design just made from a newer transistor substrate but i think it my be at only 10% of its potential, i currently do use my PROP as a portable computer and it runs with an NTSC screen and 6 Ni-Cad batteries. its perfect for electronics work. I think all of you are doing awesome work, and wanted to give a big thanks to everyone here for working on this amazing little chip which in my honest opinion is one amazing little full featured device.
if anyone think they could compile sphinx for my layout that be welcome.
my prop computer as i call it is heading for stage 2
I'm adding a second PROP and working out a shared memory bank of SPI rams.
I plan to use the final board both for fun and work, its mainly for fun though
Comments
I have on my list to do, to get a Prop OS based on numerous work already done, including SPhinx, KyeDos, PropCMD and PropDOS. As you may be aware, I also have CPM2.2 running and so I am working on a transfer program between FAT16/32 (using Kyes code) and CPM2.2 (my own spin) and the PC (using the basics of Sphinx protocol).
IMHO Drac is currently the leader with KyeDos. Ross with Catalina also has some basis for this too.
As for a faster prop, you should look at the PropII thread for some really interesting features. Meanwhile, we have not nearly touched on what our current prop can do. BTW I overclock to 104MHz regularly. Checkout the overclocking threads if you intend to do this.
Cluso99 is a great resource for Sphinx and CPM stuff.
Wishing you best of luck with your projects.
--Steve