daq@hpesrgd.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) (03/10/88)
I desperatley want to write a patch editor for my DX7II, but my basic
problem is I do not want to buy a C compiler.
The Amiga does not let you run the RS-232 port at 32 kbaud in BASIC.
I do have an external midi port hooked into the RS232, and what I want
to know is whether the interpreted basic is really too slow to interact with
the RS232 at 32 kbaud, or did Commodore just make an arbitrary decision not to
allow you to run the RS232 that fast from BASIC?
Does any one know how to do that? If not, are there some public domain
routines that will allow me to read midi input and store it to a binary
file, or to dump a binary file to midi output? Actually, I really do not care
if they are not public domain. I just do not want to pay $100 to $200 for
a patch editor/librarian.
Thanks
Doug Q. cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (03/12/88)
In article <4040001@hpesrgd.HP.COM> daq@hpesrgd.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes: > I desperatley want to write a patch editor for my DX7II, but my basic >problem is I do not want to buy a C compiler. I suggest you write it in Draco. This is a shareware compiler that was distributed on a couple of Fish Disks a while ago. It generates good code and is low cost. Might be the solution to your problem. The guy who wrote it, Chris Gray, is on the net. I've used both the CP/M version and the Amiga version and think he did a great job. It's also a great ace in the hole at bragging festivals that go something like : "Yeah, I program in C but I also wrote code in Pascal..." "Me too, but I write in Modula-2 sometime .." [several iterations later ..] "OH YEAH, well I've written code in CDP1802 assembler!" "OH YEAH, well I've written code in Draco!" "What's Draco?" --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
hcmutt@hpcllld.HP.COM (Harry Muttart) (03/12/88)
I would guess that Amiga BASIC is really just too slow to do what you want. I think that you are in luck, anyway. I think that there is a DX7 patch editor on one of the Fish disks. Harry Muttart
peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (03/13/88)
In article <45151@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes: > "Yeah, I program in C but I also wrote code in Pascal..." > "Me too, but I write in Modula-2 sometime .." > "OH YEAH, well I've written code in CDP1802 assembler!" Wow. You too? You know something else... I *like* 1802 assembler. Try to beat *that*, you slime... (no way, unless you're proficient in TECO or something). -- -- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva `-_-' -- normally ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter U -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
devilbis@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Vilbiss Warren C De) (03/15/88)
In article <45151@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: > .... It's also >a great ace in the hole at bragging festivals that go something like : > [several iterations later ..] > "OH YEAH, well I've written code in CDP1802 assembler!" Gak! And I thought I was the only person left on the face of the earth that had heard of (and actually wrote code for) that lowly microprocessor! (in a previous incarnation, before Amigas and 68000's had been invented, of course...) Sorry to digress from the original topic... - Mike Shawaluk
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (03/16/88)
Having bought my Amiga way back in 1985 :-), it came with ver 1.0 workbench and ABasiC interpreter from MetaComCo. ABasiC isn't brain dead about the serial port the way Microsoft Amigabasic is. You can set up to the necessary 31.25 KBaud in preferences, and ABasiC will take it. You do need to get the aux.device (from the Usenet archives), though as the normal serial.device blocks I/O in 400 byte chunks. MetaComCo also sells an aux.device with one of their toolkits. I wrote a few little hacks in ABasiC for my FB-01 and DX7s in ABasiC. It works. --Bill
morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) (03/19/88)
In article <786@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > Wow. You too? You know something else... I *like* 1802 assembler. >Try to beat *that*, you slime... (no way, unless you're proficient in TECO >or something). So? I know someone who has an 8008 PC (yes 8-0-0-8). So what you say? The whole thing is implemented in discrete TTL, ie. no-scale integration. >-- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva `-_-' -- Morgan Jones - Bramalea Software Inc. morgan@brambo.UUCP ...!{uunet!mnetor!lsuc!ncrcan, utgpu!telly}!brambo!morgan "These might not even be my opinions, let alone anyone else's."
peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (03/24/88)
In article <350@brambo.UUCP>, morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) writes: > In article <786@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > > Wow. You too? You know something else... I *like* 1802 assembler. > >Try to beat *that*, you slime... (no way, unless you're proficient in TECO > >or something). > So? I know someone who has an 8008 PC (yes 8-0-0-8). So what you > say? The whole thing is implemented in discrete TTL, ie. no-scale > integration. No fair bringin in friends. Besides, I've got the 4-0-0-4 manual right here on my bookshelf. "MCS-4 Microcomputer Set Users Manual, March 1974". And how about a multitasking real-time operating system on the 1802? (the Amiga 200 :->?) -- -- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva `-_-' -- normally ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter U -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (03/26/88)
In article <848@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <350@brambo.UUCP>, morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) writes: >> In article <786@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >> > Wow. You too? You know something else... I *like* 1802 assembler. >> >Try to beat *that*, you slime... (no way, unless you're proficient in TECO >> >or something). > $$ this, buddy. >> So? I know someone who has an 8008 PC (yes 8-0-0-8). So what you >> say? The whole thing is implemented in discrete TTL, ie. no-scale >> integration. > >No fair bringin in friends. Besides, I've got the 4-0-0-4 manual right >here on my bookshelf. "MCS-4 Microcomputer Set Users Manual, March 1974". > >And how about a multitasking real-time operating system on the 1802? (the >Amiga 200 :->?) You guys are all worms. Chips, you've all got chips. Ever wonder why my postings are so plauged with spilling inaccuracies ? Tubes. One of the tubes goes and *poof* a 'T' will become an 'I'. I dont even have an Amiga, just an LGP-8 that I wrote an Amiga emulator for... -- ..who come from long lines of soldiers, | richard@gryphon.CTS.COM whose destiny was fulfilled, | ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax!gryphon!richard in the words of the warriors will, | rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard and protocol. | codas!ddsw1!gryphon!richard
jesup@pawl10.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup) (03/30/88)
In article <3003@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >You guys are all worms. Chips, you've all got chips. Ever wonder why >my postings are so plauged with spilling inaccuracies ? > >Tubes. One of the tubes goes and *poof* a 'T' will become an 'I'. > >I dont even have an Amiga, just an LGP-8 that I wrote an Amiga emulator for... Nah, REAL programmers use Burroughs B-300's. 20 power supplies (all adjustable), 2K core memory, n-thousand gold-plated plug-in modules 1"x1"x2" full of resistors, capacitors, and usually a single transistor. Program through the front panel, not even in hex or octal, but in "base burroughs", a combination of base 12 and base 10. // Randell Jesup Lunge Software Development // Dedicated Amiga Programmer 13 Frear Ave, Troy, NY 12180 \\// beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP (518) 272-2942 \/ (uunet!steinmetz!beowulf!lunge!jesup) BIX: rjesup (-: The Few, The Proud, The Architects of the RPM40 40MIPS CMOS Micro :-)
nsw@cord.UUCP (N Weinstock) (03/30/88)
In article <590@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> beowulf!lunge!jesup@steinmetz.UUCP writes: >Nah, REAL programmers use Burroughs B-300's. 20 power supplies (all >adjustable), 2K core memory, n-thousand gold-plated plug-in modules 1"x1"x2" >full of resistors, capacitors, and usually a single transistor. >Program through the front panel, not even in hex or octal, but in "base >burroughs", a combination of base 12 and base 10. Sounds great. Where can I get one? I'm looking to upgrade from an ST. Heh heh, it's only a *joke* folks...
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (04/05/88)
I used to have an IBM 1401 computer sytem that a bank gave me, but it was too wide to fit into my house which only had 35 inch wide door frames (the smallest IBM cabinet was 36 inches wide). I wound up keeping it in my garage until some friends and I dismantled it for scrap. I also could not afford the 30 amps 208 volt three phase power to run it. All in all, it would have had the computing power of an Apple II, and about 1/2 as much memory. (It had the extended core cabinet, yeilding a whopping 32K.) We finally did get the 1402 read/punch to work and amused ourselves by sending 800 cards/minute thruough the reader. Talk about a mess! Cards would fly everywhere when something went amiss. It was also fun to vaporize paperclips with the 60 volt printer magnet power supply. --Bill