[Coco] Kipper SBC v1.1

[Kip Koon]

Hi Joe,
You are pretty much right.  Grant took Tandy's Color Basic and stripped away all commands for the keyboard, color graphics, sound, cassette storage, and joysticks since none of the hardware to support those functions is present on this Minimalist 6 Chip 6809 Computer which of course was his goal.  Then he added the appropriate commands from Extended Basic in with the modified stripped down now Colorless Basic to come up with his 6809 Extended Basic as he calls it which exists at addresses $DB00-$FFFF in the 16KB eprom at $C000-$FFFF.

Kip Koon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Joe Grubbs
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:16 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Kipper SBC v1.1

Not sure about how the RAM and ROM are configured, but I recall Kip saying the ROM originally had a stripped down version of Color Basic, probably the same or similar to Grant's version. Most I/O functions have been omitted (CLOAD, CSAVE, DLOAD, etc), which I suppose makes sense since none of the supporting hardware is present.


> From: zippster278 at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:07:13 -0500
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Kipper SBC v1.1
> 
> Once you have a serial connection and some storage, all you’d need is 
> a simple OS of some kind that supports serial transfer and basic 
> storage in ROM and you’d be ready to start development (on an external PC).
> 
> I definitely wouldn’t ditch the serial port on the base board, pretty 
> essential on this type of SBC (or at least really helpful).  Though 
> with a programmer and cross assembler on a pc, and a ROM socket on the SBC you could get by.
> 
> I haven’t been following this, but what how is the memory set up/divided between ROM & RAM?
> What kind of startup code is available for the ROM on this board so far?
> 
> - Ed
> 
> 
> > On Mar 11, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > You'd have to type them in with the first iteration anyway: The serial port was for connecting your console device. Unless of course you were using a terminal program in a GUI and could cut/paste code to and from the SBC every time.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:47:40 -0400
> >> From: alhartman6 at optonline.net
> >> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> >> Subject: Re: [Coco] Kipper SBC v1.1
> >> 
> >> Please don't be angry at me for saying this...
> >> 
> >> But, now that you've eliminated the serial port, how do we save and 
> >> load programs?
> >> 
> >> We'll have to type them in each time we want to use them.
> >> 
> >> -[ Al ]-
> 
> 
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