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Old 02-06-2008, 06:09 PM
Grant Stockly Grant Stockly is offline
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Originally Posted by bugman View Post
I probably should wait to ask questions until I recieve (and build) my kit because I bet the answers will be obvious, but I can't help myself.

I understand how assembled machine code will be able to be stored on the flash. I guess that it would stand to reason that a basic program, or vtl-2 program could be stored as well if you know the memory locations that they initially reside in?
Currently VTL and basic will not store programs to the flash.

The flash can easily be reprogrammed by anyone, so an upgrade in the future would be easy. VTL would be hard to patch, but basic might be possible. What I would imagine is taking the KCACR basic (Kansas City cassette tape standard) and modifying the save/load routines to go to flash instead of the tape. I'm not sure how hard this would be. Once the first kits are built by I'm sure the builders will do some programming. Is that something you would be interested in doing? We'd probably have to run basic in an emulator and trace the routines when issuing the commands, and then substitute our own code.

Along with save/load, it would be nice to have a "directory" type function...
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