Remember the Hampsters?

lost — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:36:19 +0000

I was poking around in my old bookmarks today and I ran across a link to a site hosting a copy of the old www.hampsterdance.com site, circa 1997. That got me feeling somewhat nostalgic so I let it run for a few minutes. Then it occurred to me that this icon of fads was in danger. I mean, sure, you can find the pieces of it all over the place but how many folks have the original page largely unmodified? So I grabbed a copy of the site from my bookmarked link and set up my own classic Hampsterdance mirror.

NOTE: I cannot be held responsible if the above link makes your ears bleed or otherwise causes inconvenience.

Coco Project

lost — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:51:36 +0000

I started a while back writing an assembler for 6809 and 6309 CPUs. While there are lots of decent assemblers for those CPUs available, none of them behave quite the way I want them to. The ones that handle forward references in a useful manner don’t support macros. The ones that support macros and forward references target a specific operating system. Many suffer phasing errors when forward references are present which is, to say the least, annoying. The one I had been using seems to handle most of the situations well enough but it doesn’t have macros and it is not open source so I can’t add them.

The upshot of all of that is that I decided to write my own assembler that will support the features I want. Today, I have it assembling a real source file from one of my projects almost correctly, with only two bytes wrong (on indexed instructions) which will, of course, require debugging. But the rest of the code is completely correct.

There’s still a long way to go to get it to be truly useful, including adding a LOADM file format for the output and implementing all the pseudo operations correctly. But, hey, it produces semi-pretty program listings.

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Remember the Hampsters?

Coco Project