I have to say, the memory management / ROM-heavy design of the 100 is a bit of a PITA, but fun to work around. Commodore 64 being my first computer, I haven't had much experience with more primitive systems, so there is definitely a learning curve :) 8085 is also so different than 6502 world.
The other machine I use heavily these days is HP 71b. While completely different in most ways, it shares the files/program space idea, but with up to 512K of 4-bit memory space, it's like a Cadillac compared to a Smart car... On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 2:12 AM, Willard Goosey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:17:45 +0000 (UTC) > megarat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks again, Williard. > > No problem! > > BTW, when you said: > > > The m100 is probably the most complicated 8bit environment to do> > > > assembly for ever! > > are you referring specifically to the memory-management issues, or is > > there something else I need to be mindful of? Cheers,CAM > > > Mostly the RAM files. Otherwise the m100 is a fairly normal, if ROM > heavy, 8085 box. No other family of machines ever dealt with files in > main memory the way these machines do. > > Admittedly, I haven't done any "bare metal" programming on the m100. > The LCD hardware, for instance, sounds... complicated... to deal with > directly. > > Willard > -- > Willard Goosey [email protected] > Socorro, New Mexico, USA > I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night. > -- R.E. Howard >
