24-02-2022, 07:35 PM
(24-02-2022, 03:24 PM)CheshireNoir Wrote: Mjelic,
I'd happily trade one of my SRAM / ROM Microbees for your DRAM Microbee, but I agree with ChickenMan. The Gotek is probably the way forward for you.
Well... I come from the TEC-1 world... We never had these fancy floppy disks and we barely even had tapes to save our data off. And what we do currently is use an assembler on a PC, write the resulting OBJ file to a NV-RAM and then pop it into the TEC-1 to test it. Not exactly a fast way to develop. The TEC-1 also doesn't have a full sized keyboard (only a hex keypad), nor does it have a screen. It has six 7 segment displays and if you're lucky, a 2 line x 16 character LCD.
So, having a ROM based Bee would be a nice step up for my needs. I'm pretty sure I saw a Bee that had like 5 ROM slots? As long as a couple of those ROMs could hold a game like Defender and Zork (lets face it, I wouldn't be playing that often anyway) and the other an Assembler and maybe a disassembler, I would be set.
But, I'm just kind a realising... Do the ROM Bees not have ANY ability to save data other than tape?? Hasn't there been someone develop something that can go into the 50 pin expansion that has a CF card or SD card or USB stick?