If I can find a 6V motor small enough, I would do it...
It's pretty crammed in there as is...
I'm glad I saved a pin (22) for saving to casette since Ahle2 is working on it...
Ahle2 wants a video overlay (GenLock) solution so you can see what is going on on top of the C=64 screen.
Sounds like an excellent idean and I'm going to help him out with this...
I think Bean already made something like it so I'm going to search the forum later today...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
It's very likely that I'm attending UPEW, I need to go to either Los Angeles or New York this year and LA is the first choice...
As soon as I know I'll register...
I'm also very interested in Ahle2s Amiga floppy emulator so we might have one of those too...
I already have the perfect case for it...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
Got the SD card mounted on the side so I don't have to open the unit to access it...
It's actually not sticking out at all when fully inserted...
The Commodore font was added to the KS0108 LCD driver, pretty cool, hope you can see it in the picture...
Time to take a break and watch some Stargate SG-1...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
I said that i would upload my multi-file C64 tape loader as soon as i've got home.
I'm home and here it is !
I've just realized that there's something wrong with the kernel loader ( it worked perfect before?? ), and i don't have the time to fix it this weekend
But the TAP loader and file selector works great.
To Bamse:
It should be NO problem at all to "port it" to your hardware. The only changes you have to do is to the PRI functions at the bottom ( wrapper functions )
To OldbitCollector:
Connect a keyboard and reconfigure all the constants at top of the file to suit your needs and it should work right away.
You could also connect a transistor to the casette sense the way Bamse did.
While file browsing:
Up, Down - Browsing
Right - Next page (Can't go back at the moment)
Enter - Select
ESC - Abort
While transfer:
F1 - Play
F2 - Rewind
F3 - Forward
F4 - Stop
ESC - Abort
It's time to dedicate a Protoboard to this and get it off my PPDB. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
I'm thinking I'm going to use a cassette case like Bamse did, but I think I'm going to go
the route of putting in video & SD out. This should allow me the room to keep
the counter. If I can find the right motor I'm going to make it spin.
(Could always put a cut-down prop in the cassette area, then run the motor off the
5v with a transistor. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
I just downloaded the code and I'm going to have a look at it...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
Just want to show off my new Commodore 64 Power Supply...
I got a 9V AC transformer (1 amp fuse) and then tapping 5V from a PC PSU.
The gray DIN plug and white phone cable add to the ugliness...
Works great so I really don't care...
Hope someone can get a laugh at it...
Just tested Spy Hunter and Parallax and they loaded without problems...
Time to get started on the Kernel loader to load .PRG files...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
Your modified code has a much better overall structure ( more object oriented ).
My code was a quick hack and not so well thought out
The sad part is that i can't find any spare time to continue coding on this (for a while).
But i am sure that you are more than capable of continuing this on your own (for a while).
I have to finish a more "serious" project that i'm involved in ( a marine motor monitoring system ), the deadline is SOON.
I have TOO many (five) different projects going on at the same time...... a game, a PC engine emulator, an AIS deocoder/visualizer, a marine project and the datasette emulator.
"Your modified code has a much better overall structure"
More specifically, the modification you did to the loader object.
The main code however, seems to lack some nice functionality like, file filter, approximate time left, transfer rate, rewind etc....
Here is a list of methods i suggest that we should add to the loader
getApproximateTimeLeft() (in seconds)
getLoadingTime()
getLoadedBytes()
getTransferRate()
abort()
stop() ( not the same as abort like you did )
play()
rewind()
startRecord( filename )
Everything above is easy to implement, just copy/past from my sendfile function ( well, not record() :P )
The idea is to keep ALL functionality in the loader object itself and not in the main code.
I'm about halfway into an LCD version of my own based on your last release.
Like you, I've got several irons in the fire, so I haven't finished the board yet. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
Currently I want to get the PRG loader to work and then implement the functions you mentioned.
The LCD is too small to display all that information though, right now all I have is a progress bar.
I did get the LM1881 you suggested and I'll have a look at genlock once the Datasette is done.
I'm not sure I'll make another C=64 loader but the genlock part is very interesting...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
I have actually got the PRG loader working, but somehow i screwed it up before the release
I will have a look on my harddrive to see if i have a working earlier version laying around.
But your PRG loader is a little bit different from mine, so if you want to keep your version, it will do no good.
I will, however, not dive into the code for a while.
Not much progress, but at least I'm getting back to the project...
The only progress is that the PRG loader actually starts and displays the correct name.
I have also attached the Datasette Menu maker.
This requires two directories, the In directory is where you put your TAP or PRG files.
The program lists your files, so move them around and rename them to something that make sense.
Then press the Create Menu button to create the menu and copy the files with a three letter number and three letter extension.
Copy the content of the out directory to the root of the memory card to make a nice menu for the Datasette...
P.S. The attachment manager wont let me post .zip or .jar files so you need to rename them to the correct extension.
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
Note that this version is a little bit "tweaked" and will only load the attached prg.
But it's a small step in the right direction.
Now if I can only get this to work properly and plug it into the Datasette main code...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
@Bamse
Nice to see some action going on here.
I'm still struggling with my marine motor monitoring system and will not have the time to assist you for a while. [noparse]:([/noparse]
What do you mean by a Turbo Tape version, have you implemented native support for Turbo 250 or what ?
Any progress in the overlay project then ?
@Oldbitcollector
You have been quiet for a while (like me), what's the latest ?
The coolest thing is that it's embedded in the header so you load the actual loader when you send the header.
Once you hit space bar after the "Found Turbo Tape Test" message you actually have the loader in memory.
Then only two bytes ($51 and $03) are sent as the "main" program at address $029F.
This is a vector that kicks off the turbo loader in the header @ $0351.
$033C to $03FB is the Datasette buffer where the header is stored and the loader is located 16 bytes into the buffer ($0351) after the file name.
Klart som korvspad med andra ord...
I hope to get this to work fully today so I can send any PRG file.
Once this is done, I'm pretty sure we have a speed comparable to the 1541 disk drive.
The video overlay is on hold until I'm finished with the Datasette...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
After entertaining company for a few days, I did some experimentation
with germ warfare. (nasty flu-bug.) I'm starting to feel better. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
I expect to be working on your video soon..
@Bamse
Do I understand correctly that you are transmitting the Turbo Loader
ahead of the file itself? I have an idea for you. How about transmitting
a directory of files with have .TAP and .PRG extensions from the SD?
Heck, you could do it exactly like the 1541 does...
LOAD"$" would load a list of detected files which match the extensions.
(Just drop a : between the last " and the extension to make it handy.)
This should eliminate the need for an LCD or screen for that matter.
It would be nice to make a 1541 emulator one day, but the Datasette will be for .PRG and .TAP files only.
Maybe someone else would take on the 1541 emulation challenge...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
The Turbo loader loaded 30K in 1:30 (one minute and 30 seconds), is this faster than the actual 1541 ???
I don't remember the speed of the 1541 drive, but this is pretty fast...
Anyone care to give this a try ?
If you need to change the Datasette pins, change this piece of code.
SendPin long 1 << 19
motorPin long 1 << 20
pressPlayPin long 1 << 21
Looks like there is a chance of the PRG loader being incorporated in the main Datasette code already today...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
I made an attemp to code my own turbo loader exactly the way as the Trilogic loader works (using the header)
Do i have to say that i ran in to some serious trouble ?
I scrapped the whole thing and went on coding on my other projects
Maybe it's smarter to just use the Trilogic loader as an base, and then modify it to make use of the much higher bandwidth that is possible with the propeller ?
Anyway, i made some calclulation( based on assumptions ), and came to the conclusion that speeds up to 30kb/sec may be possible with some optimized 6502 code.
I obviously didn't write the Trilogic loader, but if you can tweak it to do 30KB/s that would be pretty awesome...
The "pulse length" is $1C for 0 and $35 for 1, if it could be tweaked to half of that, I would be more than happy...
If you look at the Header, the loader code is embedded and I have pointed out the start of it.
Plug that into a 6510 disassembler and you can have a look at the code.
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
Finally after re-writing the loader routine a couple of times it works...
And the 30K barrier was broken when loading Manic Miner (47KB) from the memory card...
Still plenty of things to do, percentage bar does not work for example, File names need to be formatted etc...
And I definitely want to support more file formats...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
Anyhow, this shows Jupiter Lander (5K) loading in about 15 secs.
As you can see the loader starts automatically, no need to type run or and the program auto starts as well.
I know you cannot see this but it actually say FOUND JUPITER LANDER...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
Comments
You need to toss in a small motor somewhere and spin the counter when it's playing. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
OBC
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Got an SD card connected? - PropDOS
It's just not authentic unless those numbers are crawling over! And make 'em re-wind to "0" when you swap to the next "tape"!
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Cardinal Fang! Fetch the comfy chair.
It's pretty crammed in there as is...
I'm glad I saved a pin (22) for saving to casette since Ahle2 is working on it...
Ahle2 wants a video overlay (GenLock) solution so you can see what is going on on top of the C=64 screen.
Sounds like an excellent idean and I'm going to help him out with this...
I think Bean already made something like it so I'm going to search the forum later today...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
@Bamse:
Any chance we can get you to bring this setup to UPEW or UPENE?
(Of course this means you would have to attend. <SMIRK>)
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New to the Propeller?
Check out: Protoboard Introduction , Propeller Cookbook 1.4 & Software Index
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Got an SD card connected? - PropDOS
As soon as I know I'll register...
I'm also very interested in Ahle2s Amiga floppy emulator so we might have one of those too...
I already have the perfect case for it...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
I've got an Amiga (1000 I think) that I've never fired up due to lack of drives/software.
Awesome!
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It's actually not sticking out at all when fully inserted...
The Commodore font was added to the KS0108 LCD driver, pretty cool, hope you can see it in the picture...
Time to take a break and watch some Stargate SG-1...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
I said that i would upload my multi-file C64 tape loader as soon as i've got home.
I'm home and here it is !
I've just realized that there's something wrong with the kernel loader ( it worked perfect before?? ), and i don't have the time to fix it this weekend
But the TAP loader and file selector works great.
To Bamse:
It should be NO problem at all to "port it" to your hardware. The only changes you have to do is to the PRI functions at the bottom ( wrapper functions )
To OldbitCollector:
Connect a keyboard and reconfigure all the constants at top of the file to suit your needs and it should work right away.
You could also connect a transistor to the casette sense the way Bamse did.
While file browsing:
Up, Down - Browsing
Right - Next page (Can't go back at the moment)
Enter - Select
ESC - Abort
While transfer:
F1 - Play
F2 - Rewind
F3 - Forward
F4 - Stop
ESC - Abort
Post Edited (Ahle2) : 3/14/2009 4:34:20 PM GMT
The transfer rate when sending TAP-files is in reality about 10 times lower, because one C64 byte = 8 bits + 1 checksum bit, encodeded as bytes.
The motor sense is now monitored continuously.
I don't know of any games that doesn't load correctly after my bug fix to the Pause/Long pulse subroutine.
It's time to dedicate a Protoboard to this and get it off my PPDB. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
I'm thinking I'm going to use a cassette case like Bamse did, but I think I'm going to go
the route of putting in video & SD out. This should allow me the room to keep
the counter. If I can find the right motor I'm going to make it spin.
(Could always put a cut-down prop in the cassette area, then run the motor off the
5v with a transistor. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
OBC
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I just downloaded the code and I'm going to have a look at it...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
Just want to show off my new Commodore 64 Power Supply...
I got a 9V AC transformer (1 amp fuse) and then tapping 5V from a PC PSU.
The gray DIN plug and white phone cable add to the ugliness...
Works great so I really don't care...
Hope someone can get a laugh at it...
Just tested Spy Hunter and Parallax and they loaded without problems...
Time to get started on the Kernel loader to load .PRG files...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
Your modified code has a much better overall structure ( more object oriented ).
My code was a quick hack and not so well thought out
The sad part is that i can't find any spare time to continue coding on this (for a while).
But i am sure that you are more than capable of continuing this on your own (for a while).
I have to finish a more "serious" project that i'm involved in ( a marine motor monitoring system ), the deadline is SOON.
I have TOO many (five) different projects going on at the same time...... a game, a PC engine emulator, an AIS deocoder/visualizer, a marine project and the datasette emulator.
BTW, did anyone(OBC) test my version on the TV ?
More specifically, the modification you did to the loader object.
The main code however, seems to lack some nice functionality like, file filter, approximate time left, transfer rate, rewind etc....
Here is a list of methods i suggest that we should add to the loader
getApproximateTimeLeft() (in seconds)
getLoadingTime()
getLoadedBytes()
getTransferRate()
abort()
stop() ( not the same as abort like you did )
play()
rewind()
startRecord( filename )
Everything above is easy to implement, just copy/past from my sendfile function ( well, not record() :P )
The idea is to keep ALL functionality in the loader object itself and not in the main code.
I'm about halfway into an LCD version of my own based on your last release.
Like you, I've got several irons in the fire, so I haven't finished the board yet. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
OBC
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The LCD is too small to display all that information though, right now all I have is a progress bar.
I did get the LM1881 you suggested and I'll have a look at genlock once the Datasette is done.
I'm not sure I'll make another C=64 loader but the genlock part is very interesting...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
I have actually got the PRG loader working, but somehow i screwed it up before the release
I will have a look on my harddrive to see if i have a working earlier version laying around.
But your PRG loader is a little bit different from mine, so if you want to keep your version, it will do no good.
I will, however, not dive into the code for a while.
The only progress is that the PRG loader actually starts and displays the correct name.
I have also attached the Datasette Menu maker.
This requires two directories, the In directory is where you put your TAP or PRG files.
The program lists your files, so move them around and rename them to something that make sense.
Then press the Create Menu button to create the menu and copy the files with a three letter number and three letter extension.
Copy the content of the out directory to the root of the memory card to make a nice menu for the Datasette...
P.S. The attachment manager wont let me post .zip or .jar files so you need to rename them to the correct extension.
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
Note that this version is a little bit "tweaked" and will only load the attached prg.
But it's a small step in the right direction.
Now if I can only get this to work properly and plug it into the Datasette main code...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
Nice to see some action going on here.
I'm still struggling with my marine motor monitoring system and will not have the time to assist you for a while. [noparse]:([/noparse]
What do you mean by a Turbo Tape version, have you implemented native support for Turbo 250 or what ?
Any progress in the overlay project then ?
@Oldbitcollector
You have been quiet for a while (like me), what's the latest ?
The coolest thing is that it's embedded in the header so you load the actual loader when you send the header.
Once you hit space bar after the "Found Turbo Tape Test" message you actually have the loader in memory.
Then only two bytes ($51 and $03) are sent as the "main" program at address $029F.
This is a vector that kicks off the turbo loader in the header @ $0351.
$033C to $03FB is the Datasette buffer where the header is stored and the loader is located 16 bytes into the buffer ($0351) after the file name.
Klart som korvspad med andra ord...
I hope to get this to work fully today so I can send any PRG file.
Once this is done, I'm pretty sure we have a speed comparable to the 1541 disk drive.
The video overlay is on hold until I'm finished with the Datasette...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
After entertaining company for a few days, I did some experimentation
with germ warfare. (nasty flu-bug.) I'm starting to feel better. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
I expect to be working on your video soon..
@Bamse
Do I understand correctly that you are transmitting the Turbo Loader
ahead of the file itself? I have an idea for you. How about transmitting
a directory of files with have .TAP and .PRG extensions from the SD?
Heck, you could do it exactly like the 1541 does...
LOAD"$" would load a list of detected files which match the extensions.
(Just drop a : between the last " and the extension to make it handy.)
This should eliminate the need for an LCD or screen for that matter.
OBC
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It would be nice to make a 1541 emulator one day, but the Datasette will be for .PRG and .TAP files only.
Maybe someone else would take on the 1541 emulation challenge...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
The Turbo loader loaded 30K in 1:30 (one minute and 30 seconds), is this faster than the actual 1541 ???
I don't remember the speed of the 1541 drive, but this is pretty fast...
Anyone care to give this a try ?
If you need to change the Datasette pins, change this piece of code.
Looks like there is a chance of the PRG loader being incorporated in the main Datasette code already today...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
Do i have to say that i ran in to some serious trouble ?
I scrapped the whole thing and went on coding on my other projects
Maybe it's smarter to just use the Trilogic loader as an base, and then modify it to make use of the much higher bandwidth that is possible with the propeller ?
Anyway, i made some calclulation( based on assumptions ), and came to the conclusion that speeds up to 30kb/sec may be possible with some optimized 6502 code.
The "pulse length" is $1C for 0 and $35 for 1, if it could be tweaked to half of that, I would be more than happy...
If you look at the Header, the loader code is embedded and I have pointed out the start of it.
Plug that into a 6510 disassembler and you can have a look at the code.
Header_Start byte $89 ' 001 byte $88 ' 002 byte $87 ' 003 byte $86 ' 004 byte $85 ' 005 byte $84 ' 006 byte $83 ' 007 byte $82 ' 008 byte $81 ' 009 Prg_Type byte $03 ' 010 Start_Add_Low byte $9F ' 011 Start_Add_High byte $02 ' 012 End_Add_Low byte $A1 ' 013 End_Add_High byte $02 ' 014 Prg_Name byte $05 ' 015 byte $08 ' 016 byte $3E ' 017 byte $4C ' 018 byte $49 ' 019 byte $42 ' 020 byte $54 ' 021 byte $41 ' 022 byte $50 ' 023 byte $20 ' 024 byte $44 ' 025 byte $45 ' 026 byte $4D ' 027 byte $4F ' 028 byte $3C ' 029 byte $9A ' 030 byte $78 ' 031 <== Trilogic code starts here, $0351 in memory. byte $A9 ' 032 byte $1D ' 033 byte $85 ' 034 byte $01 ' 035 byte $85 ' 036 byte $C0 ' 037 byte $A2 ' 038 byte $41 ' 039 byte $8E ' 040 byte $04 ' 041 byte $DD ' 042 byte $A0 ' 043 byte $01 ' 044 byte $8C ' 045 byte $05 ' 046 byte $DD ' 047 byte $09 ' 048 byte $80 ' 049 byte $20 ' 050 byte $DA ' 051 byte $03 ' 052 byte $C9 ' 053 byte $0F ' 054 byte $D0 ' 055 byte $F7 ' 056 byte $20 ' 057 byte $D8 ' 058 byte $03 ' 059 byte $C9 ' 060 byte $0F ' 061 byte $F0 ' 062 byte $F9 ' 063 byte $A2 ' 064 byte $0E ' 065 byte $D0 ' 066 byte $03 ' 067 byte $20 ' 068 byte $D8 ' 069 byte $03 ' 070 byte $86 ' 071 byte $FB ' 072 byte $C5 ' 073 byte $FB ' 074 byte $D0 ' 075 byte $E3 ' 076 byte $CA ' 077 byte $10 ' 078 byte $F4 ' 079 byte $8D ' 080 byte $A0 ' 081 byte $02 ' 082 byte $85 ' 083 byte $90 ' 084 byte $A8 ' 085 byte $EE ' 086 byte $20 ' 087 byte $D0 ' 088 byte $E8 ' 089 byte $20 ' 090 byte $D8 ' 091 byte $03 ' 092 byte $95 ' 093 byte $AC ' 094 byte $E0 ' 095 byte $03 ' 096 byte $90 ' 097 byte $F6 ' 098 byte $20 ' 099 byte $D8 ' 100 byte $03 ' 101 byte $C6 ' 102 byte $01 ' 103 byte $91 ' 104 byte $AC ' 105 byte $E6 ' 106 byte $01 ' 107 byte $65 ' 108 byte $90 ' 109 byte $85 ' 110 byte $90 ' 111 byte $E6 ' 112 byte $AC ' 113 byte $D0 ' 114 byte $05 ' 115 byte $EE ' 116 byte $20 ' 117 byte $D0 ' 118 byte $E6 ' 119 byte $AD ' 120 byte $A5 ' 121 byte $AC ' 122 byte $C5 ' 123 byte $AE ' 124 byte $D0 ' 125 byte $E4 ' 126 byte $A5 ' 127 byte $AD ' 128 byte $C5 ' 129 byte $AF ' 130 byte $D0 ' 131 byte $DE ' 132 byte $A9 ' 133 byte $1F ' 134 byte $85 ' 135 byte $01 ' 136 byte $20 ' 137 byte $D8 ' 138 byte $03 ' 139 byte $C5 ' 140 byte $90 ' 141 byte $F0 ' 142 byte $03 ' 143 byte $4C ' 144 byte $E2 ' 145 byte $FC ' 146 byte $A2 ' 147 byte $0C ' 148 byte $20 ' 149 byte $B8 ' 150 byte $FC ' 151 byte $58 ' 152 byte $20 ' 153 byte $A9 ' 154 byte $F5 ' 155 byte $86 ' 156 byte $2D ' 157 byte $84 ' 158 byte $2E ' 159 byte $20 ' 160 byte $59 ' 161 byte $A6 ' 162 byte $4C ' 163 byte $B1 ' 164 byte $A7 ' 165 byte $A9 ' 166 byte $01 ' 167 byte $48 ' 168 byte $AD ' 169 byte $20 ' 170 byte $D0 ' 171 byte $49 ' 172 byte $05 ' 173 byte $8D ' 174 byte $20 ' 175 byte $D0 ' 176 byte $A9 ' 177 byte $10 ' 178 byte $2C ' 179 byte $0D ' 180 byte $DC ' 181 byte $F0 ' 182 byte $FB ' 183 byte $AD ' 184 byte $0D ' 185 byte $DD ' 186 byte $4A ' 187 byte $A9 ' 188 byte $99 ' 189 byte $8D ' 190 byte $0E ' 191 byte $DD ' 192 byte $68 ' 193 byte $2A ' 194 byte $90 ' 195 byte $E3 ' 196 byte $60 ' 197 byte $51 ' 198 byte $03 ' 199 byte $20 ' 200 byte $6D ' 201 Check_Sum_add byte $99 ' 202▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
And the 30K barrier was broken when loading Manic Miner (47KB) from the memory card...
Still plenty of things to do, percentage bar does not work for example, File names need to be formatted etc...
And I definitely want to support more file formats...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
http://s385.photobucket.com/albums/oo298/fsafstrom_2008/?action=view¤t=100_0479.flv
Anyhow, this shows Jupiter Lander (5K) loading in about 15 secs.
As you can see the loader starts automatically, no need to type run or and the program auto starts as well.
I know you cannot see this but it actually say FOUND JUPITER LANDER...
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Living on the planet Earth might be expensive but it includes a free trip around the sun every year...
Experience level:
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Let's connect the motor to pin 1, it's a 6V motor so it should be fine.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] OK, I got my resistors hooked up with the LEDs.
[noparse][[/noparse]X] I got the Motor hooked up with the H-bridge and the 555 is supplying the PWM.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] Now, if I can only program the BOE-BOT to interface with he Flux Capacitor.
[noparse][[/noparse] ] I dream in SX28 assembler...
/Bamse
If i can manage to get some free time i will dissasemble the trilogic loader and try to tweak it a bit.