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A project log for Retro Sargon Chess Computer

This is a retro-computing project whose goal is to put together a platform able to compile and run the original Sargon Z-80 chess code.

davidadkins1davidadkins1 05/24/2020 at 19:570 Comments

4/22/2020

The problem is you cannot upload HEX files thru the #PiGFX S/W running on the #RPi to the Small Computer Monitor running on the #RC2014 mini. This is unfortunate since the bulk of the changes I need to make to #Sargon is the graphic UI.

But it turns out that if I leave the #RC2014 mini configured to use the #FTDI serial port, the output also goes through PiGFX to the HDMI monitor. This means I can upload HEX files using #Putty and still see the graphics on the monitor. 

And that's fine! For development I don't care if the keyboard is attached to Putty or PiGFX. Except for the UK/US Keyboard layout difference. The UK keyboard could force me into branching PiGFX eventually. But for Sargon it may not matter.

Problem solved!


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