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On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Crusty OMO <[email protected]> wrote:

> Fabio,
>
> Nice going! It's S-100, so imho, it's very much on topic.  Aren't you
> afraid writing in C would take up the whole 2K? (and that's just to
> initialize the variables).  I guess SDCC must be very a very slim C.
>
> Re: Bootstrapping CP/M,  Rich Cini wrote a great guide on bootstrapping
> it.  Between reading a few chapters of "The Programmers CP/M Handbook" by
> Andy Johnson-Laird and Rich's guide, I was able to boot up CP/M.
> This book is available somewhere as a download, but you can get a real
> copy pretty cheap on Amazon.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 13:04:44 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [N8VEM-S100:3798] Ithaca Audio Z80 board kit UP & Running with
> custom monitor!
>
>
> Ok, ok, this is offtopic as the Ithaca Audio is not a N8VEM board, but I
> got it as a bare board, built and debugged it... so it still somewhat
> related :-)
> I was able to get this board from 1977 up and running in my N8VEM-based
> system and took the occasion to write my first monitor from scratch, as an
> exercise.
>
> This board fits a 2708 EPROM by default, or a 2716 after a simple mod
> (specified in the manual itself), so that is 2kb worth of space for my
> monitor: i decided for a mix of C (using SDCC) and ASM  and this is the
> result.  https://github.com/hkzlab/minos-z80-monitor
>
> The monitor is quite simple: all its "features" can be summarized as
> * I/O using the N8VEM console I/O, but easy to redirect on a serial console
> * Supports READ/WRITE of a single byte from memory
> * Supports IN/OUT from a port
> * Supports jumping the  execution to an address
> * Supports XModem transfer to RAM at 19200bps using the N8VEM serial board/
> Enough for a small development system (not that I really needed all this
> with the fantastic N8VEM Z80 cpu board I have...) and also as an example of
> a small SDCC project.
>
> Now I really need to read up on bootstrapping CP/M...
> I haven't had this fun with an hobby in ages :-)
>
> Bye everyone!
> Fabio
>
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