Philip Pemberton wrote: > In message <414EE3E3.7010300@eurosource.se> > Ake Hedman wrote: >=20 >=20 >>So here I am.... Very little work left before my project is finished. I= t=20 >>is raining outside. Waiting for my PC to blow up or my house to burn=20 >>down.... >=20 >=20 > You think that's bad?! I've just spent the best part of a month poring = over > assembly listings and GAL PLD logic equations to try and find out why m= y 6502 > computer was producing incorrect answers and randomly jumping off into > never-never land. I swapped the CPU already, but I never thought that b= oth > the original and the replacement would be bad. Just for grins, I swappe= d the > CPU for one from a much newer batch. Well, whadd'ya know, it booted *an= d* > passed the testvectors. It's now running EhBASIC and is earmarked for a= few > upgrades - the first being an SPO256-based speech synthesiser, then an = IDE > mass-storage interface. > I only hope I don't run out of IC sockets before I finish it... >=20 > Then again, I suppose having all of your development tools die at the s= ame > time really does take the biscuit. >=20 > Later. I really guess its the same for all of us. I sometimes wounder why I=20 think this is fun??? But the feelings you have for a few seconds just=20 after you get something to work that you have had only in your head for=20 a long time makes it worth the struggle. I played in a band once and it=20 was much the same. exercise, exercise, exercise, argue with band=20 members, exercise, exercise.... Travel, carry gear. Than you had a one=20 hour gig that made it worth it all... Is the 6502 still around??? /Ake --=20 --- Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer) eurosource, Brattbergav=E4gen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden Phone: (46) 657 413430 Cellular: (46) 73 84 84 102 Company home: http://www.eurosource.se Kryddor/Te/Kaffe: http://www.brattberg.com Personal homepage: http://www.eurosource.se/akhe Automated home: http://www.vscp.org _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist