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AN HC11 FILE MANAGER

Part IıLaying the Foundation
by Walter Krawec

Start ı Tools ı Deciding What to do First ı Letıs Get to Work ı Compiling ı Running the Program ı How Will it Work? ı What's to Follow • Sources and PDF

In this series, Iıll show you how to make a file manager for an HC11. You may ask, "Why a file manager?" Well, with the file manager that Iıll be discussing, you can store multiple programs and keep them organized, without having to memorize the addresses of where you stored them all. All you do is type "r" and then select the program you wish to run. And, if you need another reason, because itıs fun!

I developed this file manager because over half of my HC11s were set up with at least 32 Kb of external RAM. Having this memory was great, but I usually stored only one program in it. Therefore, I had a lot of extra memory that wasnıt being used. So, I decided to store multiple programs in the 32 Kb of RAM, but I kept forgetting where I stored all the programs. That was when I decided that I needed something that would remember all the addresses of every program installed.te

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