Hello,
> Say that Konamiman finished the version 3 for the Z380 BIOS (Eprom).
> I just recorded the Eprom and tested it successfully.
This is really interesting. What will exactly this z380 BIOS do? and
where
can
find more information (specs) about that z380 board?
> Most importan things of this version:
>
> a) The Basic CALL commands for accessing Z380 have been moved to the Z380
> itself. So, the 1KB common Ram memory is now nearly empty, free for the
> user.
You have to use this 1kB ram to exchange data with z80 and z380 right?
Is
there
another way to exchange data (z80 can access the z380 ram)? If not, if
you
only
access 1kB, wouldn't this slowed down too much when you transfer many
bytes?
> b) Users can add their own Basic CALL commands, from disk. You can load
> hundreds of new commands, and the best thing is that they don't spend any
> MSX memory, because they are stored into the Z380 memory. And is the Z380
> who executes this commands !!! So, they can be a lot of fast !!
> And you can use the whole linear Z380 memory for more powerfull commands.
> You can go to MSX DOS, coming back to Basic, a lot of times, and the
> new commands added, remains OK !!
That's great. It would be nice to have some documentation about how to
write
software
to this z380 board. Is there anyone available?
> That's all. Hope to release more Z380 stuff soon.
we are waiting. please give us some more news as soon as you have them.
[]s
Mauricio Braga.
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