sobre el DDH...respuesta de Hitmen

> > Hi!
> > Anybody knows what happened to the Hitmen's DDH?
> > I think both the schematics and the pc software were going to be released
> > on 2000, but it's 2004 and nobody knows anything about.
>
> short story: the prototype wirewrap version worked fine. then skywalker made
> 2 or 3 different versions using a routed pcb and none of these worked stable.
> then he made the "light" version which basically is just the parallelport
> without any bios replacement and he never found the time to write proper
> software for it because of reallife interruptions. by this time a different
> solution using the broadband adapter popped up. eventually skywalker got
> sick of it all and moved on to another console.
>
> > I think it'd would be cool to use the GPL or a Creative Commons license
> > style for the software/schematics ;)
>
> oh well :) the hardware can basically be found in the book "hardware interfaces
> for the zx-81" (no joke) :O) its just a standard bios replacement and a parallel
> port. the key lies in the software. however, the pc end is a DOS program and
> won't work on any of todays "modern" OSs and thus wont be terribly useful for
> most people.
>
> really, what you want is a broadband adapter and dcload (hell, i want this too,
> although i *have* a ddh, prototype #2 to be exact :=P). it is much faster than
> the ddh, and i've heard there is a gdb stub by now aswell, so you also have a
> really decent debugger. the ddh was only really superior back in the days when
> the only alternative was the "coders cable".
>
> gpz