Introducing Gabrielle - Xena's companion

This might be "old news", but is does show one useful application:

I added an SD card and a serial port level shifter to a Xorro card. From the XMOS community I borrowed code fort a serial port and a filesystem for the SD card.

I set it up to capture and save all incoming text to the SD card, filename was generated by date and time. Then I hooked it up to the debug output of the X1000. Once it's "running", all debug output gets saved automatically.

You could browse and import the saved files to the Amiga or remove the card and read it from anything that can read SD cards.

Because it's independent of AmigaOS, it's capable of saving it all off even when the OS is having troubles.

Now, to make this more interesting: Both the X1000 serial port AND the serial on Xena are capable of WAY higher baud rates. The limiting part are the voltage level shifters. There's a small pin header on the X5000 that will let you pick up the serial output before that shifter, so it SHOULD be possible to run the serial speeds up as fast as the SD write routines can handle. I assume the X5000 serial port can also run faster..

Unfortunately I loaned out the Xorro board and it was never returned, so you'll have to take my word for it.

Granted it's not "rocket science", but saving debug without a second machine, and the possibility to run the debug so fast that any slowdown would be minimal.. Well, it's at least useful to programmers and beta testers!