I used a $25 xilinx programmer and all free software and a 10 year old netbook to flash the xilinx.
And a Model 100, $3 Monoprice 479 cable, $10 generic usb-serial adpter, and that same netbook to load the REXMGR image. I can help get that going if the sketchy pointers on tandy.wiki aren't good enough. It took a while dinking with the software to figure out what you're supposed to do exactly, especially getting the special usb drivers working on linux, but in the end, there isn't actually very much *money* or equipment required. And I somewhat documented at least the main points to getting the xilinx software and the usb drivers. It's mostly just the "missing links" not a complete step by step recipe, partly because, the exact steps would different for you or anyone else, unless you are also going to be using exactly the same ubuntu 16.04... but I wrote down each part that was a mystery so that now it's not a total mystery. Basically, you just need a $25 xilinx programmer and some time to tinker. On Jul 5, 2017 3:22 PM, "Josh Malone" <josh.mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah - can't test anything w/o programming equip. I have stuff to program > EEPROMs and some MCUs but not Xylinx > > On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:09 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 12:06 PM Josh Malone <josh.mal...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm willing to help *build* REX units, I just don't have the equipment >>> to program or test them. I'm getting a decent repair/mod bench set up. Did >>> some work on an Atari 800xl yesterday. >>> >>> -Josh >>> >> >> By test do you mean program and validate? >> >> It seems like we could come up with a test fixture and software to >> validate REX units. >> >> If we ever wanted them professionally manufactured we'd have to do that >> anyway. >> >> -- John. >> > >
