Thank you Allison for the detailed and enlightening information, appreciated.
I ran into some problems assembling my Z80MC. Everything was assembled, including the z80 SIO, verified several times and finally powered up. Everything seemed to be working fine except no response from button 8. To make long story short, while troubleshooting the problem (into third straight day) managed to feed 9V Vcc into Vin causing even more problems while button 8 issue remained unresolved.?
At the moment, I am trying to get another kit set to get back into exploring the Z80 MC with Micro Basic. Unfortunate and expensive set back…. At least I will have more time to read.
Cheers,
Kerem
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Original Dunfield's Micro-BASIC program used a monitor also from
David Dunfield.? His site is still up but the URL is different.
Note that there are two versions of that basic one in .ASM (8080/z80)
and another in Dunfield's Micro-C (close to K&R C).? I have original
sources for both.
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Regarding "other" BASICs that can run on Z80 based systems there are many.
The MSBASIC(microsoft) is well known, Also NABU basic , and at least three
Tiny basics and LLL (larwence livermore labs) BASIC... I"d also add Z8TBASIC?
as well.? All of those are public domain now or free for non commercial use.?
All of them can be ported to?the Z80 MC.
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Due to the fact that Z80 can run code from prior 8080 and 8085 makes for?
large amount of program sources.? Most the port will be trivial only allowing
for what IO may be needed.
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Other items of interest for 8080/8085/z80 system would be:
-ALPS Dunfield's Assembly Language Programming System? An editor, assembler, debugger.
? I have added this and micro-bsic to the files area.
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-Softpack-1 Part of a large collection of software including resident editor and assembler
and other tools from?Processor Technology for the SOL system.? This also includes a BASIC.
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Allison
Kerem Kapkin