Re: can't load chip

Posted by WBahn on Dec 27, 2022; 7:01pm
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/can-t-load-chip-tp4036223p4037002.html

The HDL Survival Guide (which has a few errors itself) isn't intended to turn bugs into features, but rather to help people use the tools as they exist -- i.e., get around the bugs or at least know they exist.

I keep hoping that the next generation of tools will get finished and released. I don't know what the status of that is, but my understanding is that it is a complete rewrite. We have to keep in mind that N2T is a pretty old project and the resources to update and maintain it are very minimal -- it's largely a labor of love at this point. The authors have a whole plate of other things to do and (per my understanding) the tools were originally written by some of their graduate students.

There is a laundry list of things that have been fed back to hopefully inform the next generation of tools. Which ones actually get addressed is going to depend on whomever is writing them and what they find most important and/or not too hard to implement.

One thing that I have noticed with laptop screens in general is that many applications have things at the bottom that are covered by the task bar with no way to move the window up so that you can see it. Or, have things that are off the bottom of the window so that you can't see them no matter what you do unless you move the window over onto an external monitor.

This has always annoyed me. You would think that the one screen that a laptop manufacturer and/or OS developer would be motivated to ensure worked properly would be the screen that comes with the machine.