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robert.rozee
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Posted: 07:50am 12 May 2024
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was looking through some older bookmarks and came across this, a complete zx80 implemented on an atmega8:



see:
http://breatharian.eu/hw/atx80/index_en.html

from the same fellow, Miroslav Nemecek, who did vga (http://breatharian.eu/hw/picovga/index_en.html) and svga (http://breatharian.eu/hw/picolibsdk/index_en.html) on a pico.


cheers,
rob   :-)
 
Mixtel90

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Posted: 08:40am 12 May 2024
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That's excellent. A lovely little implementation. I'm glad it's not done as a Z80 emulator running the Z80 ROM, there are too many of those sorts of things, and why not use the chip's capabilities? Some IO pins would have been nice though.
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robert.rozee
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with the source available, it may be possible to map spare I/O pins to a memory address so that PEEK and POKE can used to control said pins. and while the atmega8 has 1k ram and 8k flash, the 328p has 2k ram and 32k flash.

consider it a 'big brother' to tinybasic running on the attiny85.

cheers,
rob   :-)
Edited 2024-05-13 00:50 by robert.rozee
 
homa

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Posted: 03:32pm 12 May 2024
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I think you zx80 fans know this site, right?
https://github.com/fruit-bat/pico-zxspectrum

By the way:
On the side, it even has an HDMI connection for both image and sound, if I understand correctly.
I would love to have a picoMite with HDMI. Unfortunately, my knowledge is not yet sufficient ...


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Mixtel90

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Posted: 07:56pm 12 May 2024
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Don't set your heart on this. It almost certainly isn't going to happen.

It would almost certainly require a complete rebuild of the firmware from scratch - just to see if it would work. You still need to keep sufficient resources for MMBasic and a decent size user program - probably rather more complex than a Speccy.
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JohnS
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Posted: 10:17pm 12 May 2024
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It's using the same DVI we discussed some months ago, I think.

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