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Submitted by plop1234 on July 15, 2007 - 7:22pm. 680x0 Macs and Lisa

Hello Everybody,

I was wondering if any one had any ideas on what some one could make with a Motorola 68000 Processor, like a small project. So send ideas my way pleas.

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They can be quite useful for

Submitted by whatthehellswit... on July 15, 2007 - 7:35pm.

They can be quite useful for embedded controllers. In fact, Contiki runs on them, and it has a TCP/IP stack, web server, browser, etc. You might wanna take a look. its very cool, and an amazing operating system.

http://www.sics.se/contiki/

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Cool

Submitted by plop1234 on July 15, 2007 - 8:41pm.

Very Cool! Dose any one else have any ideas?

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What's the story? Do you hav

Submitted by DrBunsen on July 16, 2007 - 3:16am.

What's the story? Do you have one loose 68000 lying around and you want to do something with it? Do you want to get started in microcontrollers and you don't care where you start? Do you want to learn 68k programming so you can do vintage Mac programming later?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68k
http://www.esacademy.com/automation/faq/m68k/

The 68000 isn't a true microcontroller - you'd need to add a lot of external peripherals (RAM/ROM, I/O, etc) to do anything useful with it. Later derivatives in the 68k architecture might be more useful.

Although as it's been around so long, I'm sure a bit of Google fu would turn up some simple-ish projects.

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DrBunsen, http://www.esacadem

Submitted by whatthehellswit... on July 16, 2007 - 4:45am.

DrBunsen, http://www.esacademy.com/automation/faq/m68k/ was sooo cool. You have my interest piqued. Could you advise anything else on the 68k series of cpus? Sorry for derailing the thread.

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Vintage Mac

Submitted by plop1234 on July 16, 2007 - 3:40pm.

Well a little bit of every thing relay. I don't have one lying around thats for sure, but I did just get a Mac classic and I thought I would write some minor programs for it. (Its not like the next Claris works or anything)but some thing cool.

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Re: Vintage Mac

Submitted by DrBunsen on July 18, 2007 - 7:03am.

In that case you probably want to have a look at these 68kMLA threads:

Developing Software
Developers, developers, developers

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Books

Submitted by DrBunsen on July 18, 2007 - 7:17am.
Lightsoft FAQ wrote:
Q: “What books would you recommend for 680x0 programming?”

Motorola Programmers Reference Manual - available from Motorola, part number M68000PM/AD.

Programming the 68000 by Steve Williams and published by Sybex. ISBN 0-89588-133-0.

Inside Mac for the relevant data structures /

Any ST or Amiga machine code books, of which there are plenty.

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Tim's beginner's guide to 68k

Submitted by DrBunsen on July 18, 2007 - 7:27am.

Tim's beginner's guide to 68k - from the abovementioned FAQ

whatthehellswithwindows wrote:
Contiki / has a TCP/IP stack, web server, browser, etc. /

Now there's a {heh}small{/heh} project - porting Contiki to a 68000 Mac.

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