On 8 Nov 2008, at 19:20, Dave Mills wrote:
David Given wrote:
Dave Mills wrote: [...]
I've been given an E2, it has never been connected to the 'phone line, so is still running factory fresh software. Has anyone managed to get their own code running on one of these beasts? Any pointers on where to start?
Yes, it's actually fairly straightforward, provided you have the special cable. I have some information here:
http://www.cowlark.com/amstrad/index.html
Once you have the cable, you can use pblq to upload code via the serial cable or to reflash it.
Great stuff. I'd looked at your software before, but wasn't exactly sure it would let you up upload code and execute it, I thought it was just to upload & download to the Emailer.
I hacked a quick bootloader/monitor for the E2 which you can reflash in using pblq; it's a little more convenient/quicker as it just supports XMODEM from the serial terminal, and will boot Other Stuff out of flash. List archives should have a bunch of waffle about it if you're interested, search for "e2-monitor".
Never did get round to finishing the OS, or the uclinux port... (It's too painful to keep downloading dev kernels at 11k/s, I embarked on getting the e2-monitor to boot from MMC but that too got sidetracked... :D )
Cheers,
Matt