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kiiid

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Posted: 01:24pm 18 Jun 2013

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cwilt said Kon,

I am interested in your module but was wondering when you will be supporting mmbasic 4.4? The ability to load and unload modules has me looking at mmbasic for project development again.

Well, that's pretty much up to Geoff right now. After he releases his version, I will add the things specific to the module plus eventually other things that he had decided not to include. I hope that won't take long time.
The module is very easy for upgrade anyway, even when mounted on the board.

Thanks for the interest,
Kon

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Bryan1

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Posted: 06:11pm 18 Jun 2013

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Hi Kon,
Well mate from Melb to Kanmantoo in 3 days for delivery is pretty quick and one happy camper now it's arrived. Now after reading your threads on the RetroBSD forum I sat down last night and grabbed a few E-books on unix to get up to speed on RetroBSD.

Now I did notice in one corner the microchip programming header with the 6 pads and 3 holes, now I do assume just by using the MLCR,PGC,PGD V+ and GND I can use my pickit3 to reflash the module. Or would I finally need to grab one of those microchip program header dongles and reflash it that way.

I now mill my pcb boards on my homebuilt cnc so once I can get the VGA, PS2 and USB sockets I'm going to mill up a small carrier board and design it so the I/O's are on a board that sits ontop of the main carrier board.

Anyway time to cut some firewood then off to the shed to see if I have any old puter boards with those sockets on. I sprayed a kitchen bench top yesterday but with close to 100% humidity the bench was still wet this morning so got the afternoon to play.

Regards Bryan

kiiid

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Posted: 06:46pm 18 Jun 2013

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Hi Bryan, thanks for the update. Sometimes AusPost are doing their job very well, if only they were a bit cheaper on the overseas parcels as well...

If you are going to play with the UNIX, keep in mind that there is still no driver for the RTC there.

Those six pads are for a TC2030-NL header (www.tag-connect.com) and have standard pinout so, yes and ICD3 or PicKit3 will do the job. Alternatively you could connect another header to the dedicated pins and program from outside.

Kon
Edited by kiiid 2013-06-20

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OA47

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Posted: 08:41pm 19 Jun 2013

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Thanks Kon, received my module in the post today. Have been printing out the resource material and are very keen to commence my first project. Just one question if I may, (I think that the answer is somewhere in the forum or your library but I couldn't locate it) what is the nominal current draw of the module using the basic interpreter?

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Graeme

kiiid

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Posted: 10:43pm 19 Jun 2013

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Thanks for the update Graeme,
I still don't have enough statistical data to put in documents as definitive range of current consumption, but as a rough frame you could consider an average of about 120mA.
I am planning additional tools in the future revisions of MMBasic for the module to reduce the current consumption under some conditions.

Kon
Edited by kiiid 2013-06-21

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