Commander X16

I wouldn't recommend this to be a community project, otherwise your gonna run into the "too many cooks" problem and nothing will get done. Collaborations of two or three are more manageable. I'd suggest 2-3 good editors and a community of writers submitting the bulk of the material. As mu...

I have been writing 6502 code since 1981. I started with an Atari 800, which from a system software and system documentation point of view was heads and shoulders above the C64. Back in the 80's as a geeky teen I looked at the Atari BASIC disassembly of the ROMS in a book. I noticed that the LET st...

You could probably pull off a VIC-20 emulator. VERA can do the VIC screen size. The screen size is small enough to scape an area of memory corresponding to the VIC-20 screen in an interrupt and update the VERA screen with the data. You can probably even do the same with the VIC ports. I had a PET e...

mortarm wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 2:23 am

Edmond D wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 1:52 am Perhaps Adrian could be a tester on those side of the pond.

Or, perhaps, on that side.

Intended to write "this" instead of "those" side - that was my plan.

An informative video on the Z80 microprocessor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbMdq8Dsz6Y

I'm familiar with both the 6502 and X86 architecture. Then I got hooked on the 68HC11 microcontroller at school .... I'll get back to 6502 once I get a fencing project done, a greenhouse finished, upgrades to my workshop too and a whole lot of whitewater kayaking trips this winter. I've got an X16 a...

I would need access to someone with PAL expertise to ask questions and someone with PAL test equipment to check the result. It would be a lot of work. Much more so than when I added 240P for Adrian. I'm sure there is a few enlightened Europeans who can help out. Perhaps Adrian could be a tester on ...

That being said, I've not seen - or perhaps I missed - any mention of a DOS emulator, or some way to load PC DOS software. So... will there be something like DOSBox for X16? I've not seen anything mentioning getting DOS onto the X16, and I've read everything on this site. It's a big request - makin...

Well, wiser and more informed community members have spoken with more depth than I can provide. However, as a Canadian I'll put in my two (more) cents, since the penny has been eliminated here.... The reason that I wanted to use a expansion card is to run CP/M software, without the need to port them...

I post-date the CPM era, never having to use or understand it. Given it was ported to many different hardware platforms, I don't see a requirement for an expansion card. From my limited knowledge, it should be portable to the X16 hardware, but might encounter/require some adaptations because the bas...