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rbourque
rbourque
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

I've been sidetracked with a couple of contracts so I've been away from this project. I had started to make a website to host the API for the vp-to...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

The server api now stores all it's data in a database instead of json files. It still serves the data to the client as json files, that hasn't change...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

Borrowing code from MY other projects I meant to say.

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

It's getting close. I still have a lot of optimization and refactoring to do since I've been cheating by borrowing code from other projects so no ev...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

I made vp-asm and vp-man update their local opcodes.json data file automatically on startup. It queries an api on my server that I created tonight w...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

It wouldn't let me send a json file...  opcodes.json_.txt

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

Here is the opcodes.json file for you. If you have time, since you are more familiar with the instruction set can you validate the opcodes, paramete...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

lol, not a robot, I've just worked in programming, hardware and embedded systems since high school. When I get this infrastructure up and running ma...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

I moved all the opcode definitions into an opcodes.json file for vp-asm and vp-man to share. The manual utility can now look up any opcode or list ...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

@nivbot I'd love an S-100 system but can't affort one. I had to settle for replicas of the IMSAI and Altair 8800. There is something about blinky l...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

The Volker-Craig VC-4152 came in, and after re-seating all the sockets there was nothing to fix. How disappointing for a 46 year old machine, fixing...

5 months ago
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@nivbot I run an IT Department and have been coding since 1985, so stuff like this is really small task for me in comparison to my day job coding. It...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

Since I had all the opcodes in a json file so that vp-asm.py would aware of what opcodes were valid and how many parameters they required for the erro...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

Thanks. That was very helpful. I made a very rudimentary loader this evening that sends the chipout data and some hardcoded strings and meta data. ...

5 months ago
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RE: Command Line Assembler?

The compiler now will report compilation errors, where they are, and parameter information. Also don't have to pad 0x0 anymore. If you leave them ...

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