<x-html>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are samples of loading & running UUT
code in the Vector test scripts for Asteroids based on the CAT Box trick to
draw a "+" to the screen. To make the Vector test work you must disable
the WD RESET.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any program of length is going to need to service
the WD RESET or depend on it to be disabled.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You might want to read up more on the "Quick Test"
or "Hyper Test" pods as they use a similar method of RAM testing.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kev</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anyone done this before? Building a compiled
program, loading it byte by byte into memory, and then doing Run UUT? I was
playing around with this last night, but I couldn't get it to work. (6809E
based system). Could be lots of things at this point, and I'm going to review
the Troubleshooter documentation, but I thought I'd ask. Talk of testing RAMs
made me think to try a few tests to see how easy it would be to build a "fast
RAM" tester. I just took a snippet of code from the Qix self-test and wanted
to run a modified version of that. However, even a simple test where I'm
writing to a specific address did not seem to work. Been a looong time since I
wrote assembly, and I've never had to bother looking at the generated op
codes! The code was relocatable code.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On a related note, it appears that it's possible
to write some z80 code that could be executed by the 9010A base unit. You
can't use the Fluke compiler, however, because you'd need to have a slightly
different record structure for the program. This is part of the reason that I
was asking about interest level in a new compiler. That, and the fact that
there are gaps in the programming language that might be easy to
fill.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>JB</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--James Bright<BR><A
href="http://www.QuarterArcade.com">www.QuarterArcade.com</A><BR>Restored
Arcade Games for your Home</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
</x-html>
Received on Wed Jul 09 07:20:22 2003
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Dec 02 2003 - 18:40:53 EST