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:

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