Platform Mikro80 - marinus-lab/z88dk GitHub Wiki

Hardware summary

  • MHB 8080A @ ~2Mhz
  • ~54k contiguous RAM?
  • Character mapped display

Classic library support (+mikro80)

  • Native console output
  • Native console input
  • ANSI vt100 engine
  • Generic console
    • Redefinable font
    • UDG support
    • Paper colour
    • Ink colour
    • Inverse attribute
    • Bold attribute
    • Underline attribute
  • Lores graphics
  • Hires graphics
  • PSG sound
  • One bit sound
  • Inkey driver
  • Hardware joystick
  • File I/O
  • Interrupts
  • RS232

Compilation

zcc +mikro80 program.c -create-app

A .rk8 file is produced suitable for loading as a tape file into, for example Mame.

To load type:

I

When loaded, the start + end addresses will be displayed on screen. To start the program type:

G 0000

Keyboard handling

By default, the port uses the firmware keyboard routines. This can be quite slow at recognising keypresses so you may end up with a better experience if you enable the inkey terminal handling by supplying the option --hardware-keyboard

The delete/backspace key is mapped to the home key.

Character Set

The font is fixed in ROM and contains the following characters:

charset

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