[Coco] The torch is past, the spirit lives on... :-) (OLPC, simon6809, and Dunfield tools)

[Mark Marlette]

John,

GREAT to see you, the simon6809 board and your work. VERY impressive!!!!!!

Mark
Cloud-9


At 4/13/2008 01:06 PM, you wrote:


>Inspired by the Fest, I got my Dunfield (http://www.dunfield.com/) 6809

>compiler's runtime library retargetted to support the simon6809 board

>(http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2008-March/035370.html).

>It really wasn't too hard -- Dave's toolchain is actually quite

>nice to use.  His compiler is a little quirky, but quite capable.

>It's only major drawback is that it is DOS-based, but it seems to work

>just fine in DOSBox.  I guess that is close enough to Linux friendly

>for me, all things considered. :-)

>

>I also brought my son's XO laptop from the OLPC project

>(http://www.laptop.org) to the Fest.  It's focus on child friendliness,

>it's abundance of available programming activities, and its overall

>"cuteness" gives it a personality that reminds me of the CoCo --

>although it lacks a cartridge port...hmmm...

>

>Then it struck me -- since the XO runs Linux and I was doing my

>simon6809 stuff on Linux (including DOSBox for the Dunfield tools),

>I should combine the two.  For me, this comes awfully close to

>recapturing some of the CoCo spirit that most modern computers lack.

>So, I took a picture:

>

> 

>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/coco-6809/xo-and-simon6809.jpg

>

>I'm posting it here mostly to make Boisy jealous for missing the

>Fest...

>

>If anyone else acquired a simon6809 kit and wants to use the Dunfield

>tools with it, let me know.  I'll be happy to tell you how to make

>the appropriate modifications. [1]

>

>Happy hacking!

>

>John

>

>[1] In the back of my mind I recall that Dunfield allowed distributing

>modified versions of their runtime files under some conditions.

>However, I don't remember the details and can't find any online

>reference to confirm that.  I know Dave Dunfield used to be on this

>list, so maybe he can clear things up for me?  I recall that he seemed

>like a clueful guy. :-)

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