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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: BASIC for STAMP clone
Organization: The Armory
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 17:22:34 GMT
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In article <CwHAwu.L1C@tridom.com>,
Steve Harmon <srh@gatekeeper.mis.tridom.com> wrote:
>Richard Steven Walz (rstevew@armory.com) wrote:
>: That's right, Wally, I checked my Parallax catalog finally; the effective
>: price you pay for having your $3.75 16C56 chip programmed with BASIC is
>: about $12 just for code!! The empty ones are $3.75, the programmed ones are
>: $18 one-sies and about $16 if you buy their kit of two sets with resonators
>: and $1.25 serial EEPROM's. Sounds like time for a PD C tinyBASIC to cut
>: them down to size!!
>: -Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com
>
>    Actually, while you're (we're) at it why not also include operability
>with some more interesting processors like the Z8604 or some such.  In fact
>I believe that the Z8604 is considerably more powerful and about 1/2 the
>price.  I've been tempted to do a stamp-like design for it but I always
>seem to have other things to do <sigh>...
>
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I have been searching ftp sites for Z8 tiny BASIC's or assemblers, but they
are never MS-DOS ready, and there is usually a note indicating that they
aren't sure that the C code will compile correctly on anything! So I still
search for the Assembler for Z8 family for MS-DOS. Specifically I have some
Z8603 and Z8613's with XPROM piggy-back EPROMS. I imagine they may be close
enough to Z8604, and my manual seems to indicate so! Any info is
appreciated. Or pointers to other ftp sites?
Thanks,
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

