[Oberon] Commenting the answers to my latest posts

[greim]

Hi Chris,

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>> Also a tool writing the Oberon File system directly to a SD-
>> Card and a real PC-Link using the RS232 RISC<->PC would be nice to have,
> as a
>> stable, easy to use infrastructure.
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> I use slightly modified versions of ORC.Mod and PCLink1.Mod which are both
> included with Project Oberon to send files from the PC to the Spartan-3 FPGA
> board. I have ORC running on 'ETH PlugIn Oberon for Windows 2.5' on the PC
> and PCLink1 running on RISC Oberon.
>
> I have also started working on a Gardens Point Component Pascal Windows
> program to read / write to the Oberon filesystem on an SD card. So far it is
> just reading raw sectors. It has had to wait as preparation of the release
> of Astrobe for Cortex-M4 with hardware floating point support has been
> keeping me busy. However, I hope to be able to return to the SD card project
> soon,


thats nice to hear!
Markus


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> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:38:16 +0200
> From: eas lab <lab.eas at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Large displays in Emulated RISC Oberon
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Hi Chris,

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> RE. my thread about ALO:
>   does X86:emulator:V5 use X86 <forbidden/protected> mem,
> or V5's mem-area for FrameBuffer; so that it could be directly
> manipulated from V5 code?


do you mean the RISC5 emulator?
There simple one array as image of the total RISC5 memeory.
So you can directly manipulate everything.

Markus


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> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:56:30 +0200
> From: "volkert at nivoba.de" <volkert at nivoba.de>
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Large Displays / 64 bit...
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> Am 19.06.2014 12:35, schrieb greim:
>> Hi,
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>> each enhancement of the emulator should keep the existing FPGA RISC
>> processor in mind!
>> Otherwise we are opening the next fork of the fork of the fork...
>>
> Here is the problem: no clear vision, no goals, no processes and no
> "lead" behind

you are absolute right here!
Maybe we shoud found at least 3 people for the RISC Hardware, the Oberon 
Software and all the PC emulators , tools etc.

I can offer to moderate the HW story, at least as nobody which more 
knowledge / skills will wants to make this job.

Regards

Markus


> the evolution of the RO Oberon stack  .... really sad ...
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> BW,
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:56:42 -0500
> From: Aubrey.McIntosh at Alumni.UTexas.Net
> Subject: [Oberon] Spartan 6 Kickstarter project
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems <oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch>
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> There is a Kickstarter project to produce a Spartan 6 board.  This reached
> its funding goal in 4 days and will run for about 3 more weeks.
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> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1812459948/minispartan6-a-powerful-fpga-board-and-easy-to-use
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Interesting. Its also more or less the same design as Xula or Papilion.
Also SDRAM. The only difference is HDMI instead of VGA.
Xilinx itself has brought a 69$  Spartan-6 dev. board onto the market 
this days. But it has no ext. RAM.

Whats about a Kickstarter project for FPGA Oberon ;-)

Regards

Markus Greim