Re: A89: For people with non-TI m68k experience?? (linuxTIproject)


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Re: A89: For people with non-TI m68k experience?? (linuxTIproject)




Thanks! Time to boot into my real os and check it out!
and yes, Unix is definately the best (well, I have Linux)...

-----Original Message-----
From: Zoltan Kocsi <zoltan@bendor.com.au>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: A89: For people with non-TI m68k experience?? (linuxTIproject)


>
>Joe Wingbermuehle writes:
> 
> > Hmm... Unix user eh? 
>
>Only the best, man, only the best.
> 
> > Have any idea how I could send programs using the
> > TI-Graph Link to my 83/89?
>
>If my memory doesn't fail me, on the ticalc site you'll find two Linux 
>programs to up/download stuff, one using the Graph Link and the other 
>using the parallel port and some very primitive HW. 
>In true Open Source fashion they come as source and not as binary - we 
>don't keep Powerful Secrets but made them public knowledge *and* fix 
>the bugs that they can exploit to do nasty things ...
>
>Since the Graph Link one uses simple serial stuff, it should be
>runable under any unix.
>
> > I'm also looking for an assembler for z80/68k...
>
>Of course, for the 68k you should use the GNU toolchain (available for 
>any common platform - that is, DOS, Windows, any form of unix, OS/2,
>Amiga, whatever). The GNU toolset, if you are not avare of it,
>contains an assembler, a C/C++/ObjectiveC compiler with some very
>notable extension for these languages, linker, a very powerful source 
>level debugger and a bunch of tools like objdump etc.
>The list of targets include any 32-bit CPU that is sold in any
>reasonable quantity, that is M68K, x86, MIPS, SPARC, ARM, SH, PPC: the 
>full list is too long. As everything from GNU it comes as full source
>but you will find precompiled binaries for some of the most frequent
>target_system - target_CPU - host_system tuples on the net (for Windows
>and DOS host, with stand-alone m68k target www.cygnus.com is the
>place to go).
>
>For the Z80 I know there are some assemblers, but I wouldn't
>know by heart where. Your best bet would be to take a look at 
>ftp://sunsite.unc.edu somewhere in /pub/linux/tools/assemblers or
>something along these lines. As it comes in source and wouldn't use
>any fancy system functions, you could make it compile under any unix.
>
>Regards,
>
>Zoltan
>