I’m torn between two projects
I can’t get the Cactus to boot in minimal chip mode, and diagnosing it isn’t going so well. So I bought myself a USB logic analyzer, which should be mailing soon. I intend to compare the bus signals of the Cactus to the breadboarded “Cactus Seed” and see where the discrepancy is.
In the meantime, I’ve noticed that the Western Design Center 65C02′s do something different with pin 1 (VPB). It’s not a second ground pin, but rather something specific to their implementation and thus I should leave it floating. I need to throw it on the bench and desolder the lines going to it, just to be on the safe side. It probably won’t solve the problems I’m having, but it doesn’t hurt to try and eliminate factors, right?
On the complete opposite side of computing power, my Poweredge R610 “Vexus” is home with me, so I’ve been trying to set it up as a VM host. I’ve got Hyper-V Server 2016 (the free one) on there, but it is rather limited. I figured I should manage it externally with another Windows machine that can run Hyper-V Manager, to provide me with a more capable interface to access and control my various future VM’s from.
“But why are you using Hyper-V Server instead of-” Stop. Reflect on your choice of words here before you say anything else. “So what made you choose-” That’s better.
It’s free, and I’m used to the Hyper-V Manager interface. That being said, I’m not 100% sold on this as how Vexus will be run, so I am open to suggestions. In the end, I need a appropriate VM host software that will let me run Linux, Windows, and other guest operating systems.