Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 13:35:15 CDT
From: timd@twaddle.dell.com (Tim Deagan)
Message-Id: <9110241835.AA25495@twaddle.dell.com.>
To: glove-list@karazm.math.uh.edu
Subject: 8051s !!!

I'm suprised that there aren't scads of 8051 developers
working on a PGlove box.  I am!  The 8051 beats the 68HC11
for a couple of reasons in my book.
1) Lots of PD assemblers, dissassemblers, simulators
2) Reasonably priced pseudo-ICEs (approx $200)
3) Cheese-whiz Assembly code (includes such commands
     as ANL and ORL, gotta love it!)

Anyways the point is that it's a great hombrew platform.  
I've built a bunch of MIDI boxes at home with nothing but
a scope.  They also have a 8032AH with on-board BASIC, who could
ask for more?

I am trying as fast as I can to whip up a MIDI box for the glove,
I want to map my MIDI drum machine to the joystick space as a start.
Hires mode makes LOTS of stuff possible, especially if you include
one of those NINTENDO twister board things (power-pad?) that you
can walk around on and use as an input device.

Realistically it's probably easier to run the glove into a PC with
a MIDI card and develop SW there, but maybe not.  Have any of you
homebrewers looked at C&T's PC on a chip with SUPERSTATE?  LOTS and
LOTS of potential for low cost-high result development.

Forget the 68HC11, the 8051 is the industry workhorse for good reason.
Sorry if I'm stepping on any toes, but discourse is the soul of reason,
or something.

--Tim
timd@twaddle.dell.com