project oberon-what is quickest way to get started?

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I have been checking availability of Oberon Station every day and finding it has continued "sold out" for months now.

No date for when it will be available, if ever.

So how do I get a FPGA board that works with Project Oberon?

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I have been checking availability of Oberon Station every day and finding it has continued "sold out" for months now.
No date for when it will be available, if ever.
So how do I get a FPGA board that works with Project Oberon?

I can highly recommend Saanlima Electronics Pepino board:

http://www.saanlima.com/pepino/index.php?title=Welcome_to_Pepino

The Project Oberon-specific details are here:

http://www.saanlima.com/pepino/index.php?title=Pepino_Oberon

Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com/RISC5

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I have been checking availability of Oberon Station every day and finding it has continued "sold out" for months now.
No date for when it will be available, if ever.
So how do I get a FPGA board that works with Project Oberon?

http://www.saanlima.com/pepino/index.php?title=Welcome_to_Pepino
http://www.saanlima.com/pepino/index.php?title=Pepino_Oberon
Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com/RISC5

I ordered the Pepino board and the microSD card with Oberon image from Saanlima. It arrived by mail quickly but I didn't have the correct USB cable.

Saanlima uses a USB Mini-B connector on their Pepino board, which is an improvement over those USB micro connectors, in my opinion.

Much pleased with the board.
Oberon boot-up is amazingly fast.

Thanks for the recommendation, Chris.

I don't know if this is the proper forum for questions about the Oberon System and changing the display orientation:

Q. I wonder if there is a way within the Oberon System to rotate the displayed image 90 degrees?

If so, I could physically rotate my wide LCD monitor by 90 degrees and get a longer vertical display.

Carl

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You should find more people able to answer questions like this on the ETH Oberon Mailing list:

https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon

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Q. I wonder if there is a way within the Oberon System to rotate the displayed image 90 degrees?
If so, I could physically rotate my wide LCD monitor by 90 degrees and get a longer vertical display.

I don't know of an easy way to rotate the display but if you have a large enough display you can get more text to display by reducing the size of the default font. Edit Fonts.Mod and change the following statement in the module initialisation section:

Default := This("Oberon10.Scn.Fnt")

to

Default := This("Oberon8.Scn.Fnt")

then recompile Fonts.Mod and restart Project Oberon

Regards,
Chris

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To help new users get started we have now made available, free of charge, a disk image and Verilog bitstream files specifically to run the Project Oberon Workstation on the Pepino LX9 FPGA development board 'out-of-the-box'.

This release is based on the very latest Oberon sources (July 2018) and Verilog sources (Jun 2018) as described in An Update of the RISC5 Implementation, by Niklaus Wirth 15.6.2018:

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/

-> Project Oberon. (2013 Edition)
-> RISC5 Update

The system also includes our enhancements:

* Support for Numeric / Character CASE statements in the compiler
* Optional real-time clock devices
* Timestamps on uploaded files
* The additional high-capacity file system HCFiler
* Additional source code examples

The entire source code of the system, including the compiler, is included on the disk image. Go to

www.astrobe.com/RISC5/Workstation

for more details and to request a copy of the system,

Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com