Six or more months ago I was given the job of introducing a micro to into our company and training our techs and engineers. I have been a long suffering Moto 6805 user. I have used it in many cordless phones and answering machines manufactured in China, despite the total lack of support.
First we tried to order some M68DEMO0908GB60 demo boards from the local Australian agent, they didn't have any and didn't even know it was, but it was featured on their own web site. I ordered it direct from the states. Yanks know how to get things done "forget the aussies" is my rule. Sure enough they were in my hands in four days.
Upon preparing them and firing them up I found that I needed to apply for a license for what appears to be third party software. I completed their on line form and it went to the Singapore office, after answering heaps of dumb questions about who we were and why we wanted a license and EVEN what product we required the license for, we got no were fast, with some one who could barely speak English. We did get a partial license but the boards wouldn't work. Answer- on the advice of some of my peers - forget it and go for AVR studio like every one else. Did it, had no probs, and trained everyone on it- mission accomplished, easily. I have now brought the moto boards home and am trying to fire them up again. Can run all the demo programs on the board in stand alone mode. Can run the MTWKS software and can compile it, but can't get the board on line and load any code not even the demo code. Forget contacting them again - has anyone got thing running? I am running version 3 of MTWKS as supplied but the boards they sent us have a serial not a USB, could this be the prob? And are there any other things I could try, or should I just chuck them in the bin and use AVR at home too.