Date   : Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:00:00 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: BeebEm under Linux? (or any BBC emulator under

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 10:25, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 23:21, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > I don't know how hard hacking ECONET on would be - how complex can the
> > HDLC chip be? I might have the datasheet somewhere.
> 
> It's not terribly complicated; the ADLC is indeed fairly basic.
> I wrote a 68B54 Econet driver for Linux a few years ago, which
> I guess you could look at to get some ideas.

Now that's interesting. How did you interface between the host machine
and the 68B54 chip?

I'm going to need something with a reasonable amount of horsepower to
control this picture wall project, as it needs to take an image, split
it, do the colour processing and then farm out to each BBC within the
wall for display.

The plan was to use a later Acorn machine of some sort - with the
associated learning curve for writing some code for it.

I'd feel a lot more comfortable using something that'd run Linux (or a
BSD variant) though as I know my way around it. It wouldn't rule out
using classic hardware either - we've got plenty of old number-crunching
machines kicking around the museum that'll run Linux or BSD.

cheers

Jules