Admittedly, my first thought is probably far more realistic than I thought upon thinking it...
But my second thought was something along the lines of "is there an open-source assembler? [Ziggurat29 had issues with sdcc [but for an 8080]... Am I gonna have to use a CP/M-based assembler?"
Heh... Then thoughts went to, "BAH! I can use ZAC!"
Yeah, we're talkin:
1) Write the new SD70 code on my TI-86.
2) Assemble it, under ZAC, on the TI-86
3) Transfer that to compy
4) Convert it somehow to an EPROM image
5) Burn EPROM
LOL.
It makes a heck of a lot of sense, no? Use the tools I know!
(As crazy as it may sound, I *did* actually think of some code I wrote on the TI-86 which could be handy here... what was it? Oh, the flash-programming code... hmmm)
OK, that's a bit ridiculous, assembling code for this on my calculator... But it really made sense at the time!
Heh, maybe that flash-programming bootloader-ROM I mentioned earlier should use TI-Graphlink instead of Zmodem?
*Sigh* brain...
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you might find ZMAC to be easier to use than the calculator
http://48k.ca/zmac.html
I haven't tried, but I /think/ it can generate object code that will link with SDCC. If that works, then bootstrap and maybe ISRs/drivers can be implemented in assembler, and the rest can be implemented in C.
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Definitely smarter than coding on a calculator!
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