rc2014: a little cleanup

recipes/rc2014/README.md

@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ device I use in this recipe.
 
 ### Gathering parts
 
+* A "classic" RC2014 with Serial I/O
 * [Forth's stage 2 binary][stage2]
 * [romwrite][romwrite] and its specified dependencies
 * [GNU screen][screen]
-* A FTDI-to-TTL cable to connect to the Serial I/O module of the RC2014
-* (Optional) RC2014's Digital I/O module
+* A FTDI-to-TTL cable to connect to the Serial I/O module
 
 ### Configure your build
 
@@ -85,6 +85,13 @@ In my case (arduino uno), it's `/dev/ttyACM0`. Then:
 
 See romwrite's README for details about these commands.
 
+Note that this method is slow and clunky, but before long, you won't be using
+it anymore. Writing to an EEPROM is much easier and faster from a RC2014
+running Collapse OS, so once you have that first Collapse OS ROM, you'll be
+much better equipped for further toying around (unless, of course, you already
+had tools to write to EEPROM. In which case, you'll be ignoring this section
+altogether).
+
 ### Running
 
 Put the AT28 in the ROM module, don't forget to set the A14 jumper high, then
@@ -94,11 +101,11 @@ identify the tty bound to it (in my case, `/dev/ttyUSB0`). Then:
     screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
 
 Press the reset button on the RC2014 to have Forth begin its bootstrap process.
-Note that it has to build more than half of itself from source. It takes a
-while about 30 seconds to complete.
+Note that it has to build more than half of itself from source. It takes about
+30 seconds to complete.
 
-Once bootstrapping is done, you'll get a and you should see the Collapse OS
-prompt. That's a full Forth interpreter. You can have fun right now.
+Once bootstrapping is done you should see the Collapse OS prompt. That's a full
+Forth interpreter. You can have fun right now.
 
 However, that long boot time is kinda annoying. Moreover, that bootstrap code
 being in source form takes precious space from our 8K ROM. We already have our

recipes/rc2014/glue.asm

@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-.equ	RAMSTART	0x8000
-.equ	RAMEND		0xffff
-.equ	ACIA_CTL	0x80	; Control and status. RS off.
-.equ	ACIA_IO		0x81	; Transmit. RS on.
-.equ	DIGIT_IO	0x00	; digital I/O's port
-
-jp	init
-
-; interrupt hook
-.fill	0x38-$
-jp	aciaInt
-
-.inc "err.h"
-.inc "ascii.h"
-.inc "core.asm"
-.inc "str.asm"
-.equ	ACIA_RAMSTART	RAMSTART
-.inc "acia.asm"
-
-.equ	STDIO_RAMSTART	ACIA_RAMEND
-.equ	STDIO_GETC	aciaGetC
-.equ	STDIO_PUTC	aciaPutC
-.inc "stdio.asm"
-
-; *** BASIC ***
-
-; RAM space used in different routines for short term processing.
-.equ	SCRATCHPAD_SIZE	STDIO_BUFSIZE
-.equ	SCRATCHPAD	STDIO_RAMEND
-.inc "lib/util.asm"
-.inc "lib/ari.asm"
-.inc "lib/parse.asm"
-.inc "lib/fmt.asm"
-.equ	EXPR_PARSE	parseLiteralOrVar
-.inc "lib/expr.asm"
-.inc "basic/util.asm"
-.inc "basic/parse.asm"
-.inc "basic/tok.asm"
-.equ	VAR_RAMSTART	SCRATCHPAD+SCRATCHPAD_SIZE
-.inc "basic/var.asm"
-.equ	BUF_RAMSTART	VAR_RAMEND
-.inc "basic/buf.asm"
-.equ	BAS_RAMSTART	BUF_RAMEND
-.inc "basic/main.asm"
-
-init:
-	di
-	; setup stack
-	ld	sp, RAMEND
-	im 1
-
-	call	aciaInit
-	ei
-	call	basInit
-	jp	basStart
-
-