I came across this in C16/Plus/4 Group. Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/c16.plus...9337260915
It seems like an excellent solution for the Premium+ or other SDCard equipped Microbees. Cost is rather prohibitive though, to say the least. Are there any cheaper workalikes you know of? (obviously with upload feature)
"Hi folks! I want to tell you about a neat trick I found for Commodore 16 cross-development.
I wanted to develop on my PC and test on my real C16. The usual way to do this is via SD card, using an SD2IEC. But it's cumbersome to swap the SD card back and forth all the time. Quick and effortless iterations are essential for the creative process.
There are SD cards with built-in Wi-Fi. They are mostly designed for downloading pictures onto a phone or PC, but I went looking to see if some of them also supported upload. I didn't really find anything until it occurred to me to include the work "hack" in my search. ?
It turns out that a particular brand - Toshiba FlashAir - has a built-in upload feature that can be accessed simply by editing a config file. By following the instructions on these two sites, I managed to make it connect to my home Wi-Fi and enable upload via HTTP:
https://hackaday.io/project/5558-reverse...fi-sd-card
http://aggregate.org/CACS/flashair.html
And it works! With everything set up, it's really a quite magical experience. I just run my build script (which uploads the executable under the name "dload") and press F2 F2 RETURN SHIFT-F3 (DLOAD"DLOAD" and RUN) and the code runs on the C16.
This is surely only the beginning of what can be done with this SD card. Allegedly it also has some built-in Lua scripting. But I have achieved my super-fast iteration (less than 5 seconds edit-to-run latency), so I'm happy!"
It seems like an excellent solution for the Premium+ or other SDCard equipped Microbees. Cost is rather prohibitive though, to say the least. Are there any cheaper workalikes you know of? (obviously with upload feature)
"Hi folks! I want to tell you about a neat trick I found for Commodore 16 cross-development.
I wanted to develop on my PC and test on my real C16. The usual way to do this is via SD card, using an SD2IEC. But it's cumbersome to swap the SD card back and forth all the time. Quick and effortless iterations are essential for the creative process.
There are SD cards with built-in Wi-Fi. They are mostly designed for downloading pictures onto a phone or PC, but I went looking to see if some of them also supported upload. I didn't really find anything until it occurred to me to include the work "hack" in my search. ?
It turns out that a particular brand - Toshiba FlashAir - has a built-in upload feature that can be accessed simply by editing a config file. By following the instructions on these two sites, I managed to make it connect to my home Wi-Fi and enable upload via HTTP:
https://hackaday.io/project/5558-reverse...fi-sd-card
http://aggregate.org/CACS/flashair.html
And it works! With everything set up, it's really a quite magical experience. I just run my build script (which uploads the executable under the name "dload") and press F2 F2 RETURN SHIFT-F3 (DLOAD"DLOAD" and RUN) and the code runs on the C16.
This is surely only the beginning of what can be done with this SD card. Allegedly it also has some built-in Lua scripting. But I have achieved my super-fast iteration (less than 5 seconds edit-to-run latency), so I'm happy!"