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CarlRanson
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Posted: 11:22pm 07 Jun 2015

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Hey all,

So I've finally gotten back to playing with my *mites and am at the point of trying to run on the micromite hardware.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the micromite (as sold by silicon chip) doesn't have a B: or A: drive at all. So it only has "memory" for one program.

The question is how do I get my program from the maximite SSD to the micromite's memory

Thought I'd ask before trying to trick teraTerm into "typing" out the program.

Thanks,
CR

jman

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Posted: 11:25pm 07 Jun 2015

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Hi
Upload with TeraTerm using xmodem

Press F11 from the console then click file transfer xmodem send

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John

CarlRanson
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Posted: 11:48pm 07 Jun 2015

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Thanks, John.

I dare say you saved me a fair chunk of time there.

CR

panky

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Posted: 12:31am 08 Jun 2015

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CR,

Better still, (imho) is to use TassyJims MMEdit - because there are quite a lot of differences in commands, to be able to view your code with commands etc colour coded and the ability to download and run works just great. Just upload all your Maximite programs from the SD card into the PC then open them in MMEdit. Also included is the ability to move files backwards and forwards from the Maximite so if you wanted, you could connect both machines to MMEdit.

Cheers,
Panky

... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it!

WhiteWizzard
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Posted: 12:42am 08 Jun 2015

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I fully agree with panky on this one - definitely worth using TassyJims brilliant MMEdit as it is so much easier for transferring programs from your MaxiMite to a MicroMite.

And yes, you are correct about the memory containing just one program (with no drives). Yet another reason for using MMEdit.

For everything Micromite visit micromite.org

Direct Email: whitewizzard@micromite.o

CarlRanson
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Posted: 12:25am 17 Jun 2015

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having a little trouble getting I2C to work on the micromite.

I'm seeing the normal hex 71 address I expect followed by a few extra bits of data.
It almost looks like its using 10bit addresses, or its cutting off most of the bits following the address.

Anything obvious that I'm missing here?

Grogster

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Posted: 01:39am 17 Jun 2015

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What are you trying to talk to?

EEPROM?

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

CarlRanson
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Posted: 05:33pm 17 Jun 2015

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The same displays I've had working just fine on the maximiteV1.

I got some more kits this morning, I'll report back once I've built one of them up.

CarlRanson
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Posted: 12:08am 26 Jun 2015

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So it turn's out I'm a big dummy...the I2C device wasn't powered so the ack bit wasn't being sent back.

For the Record: On the Rigol DS1054 I2C decoding this shows as a write block with the correct address shown followed by a skinny block that just has a question mark.

Hopefully that will help someone who follows

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