Re: A82: Suggestions please.

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A82: Suggestions please.
From: ADAMMAN106@aol.com
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 22:09:34 EST
Reply-To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 98-02-19 14:24:55 EST, you write:

> n a message dated 19/02/98 16:39:48 GMT, you write:
>  
>  << These is supposedly a project to emulate all of the TI-calcs, but I
>   have seen no proof or results of the project except for a web page
>   that hasn't been updated in months.  The fact that you have an almost
>   working emulator is great.  now people who don't have a graphlink or
>   other kind of cable can write programs and test them.  Hopefully this
>   will add to the number of 82 asm programmers.
>   Just wondering, is the emu a DOS/win3.1 or win95 prog? >>
>  
>  It's a DOS program - it isn't really an emulator at the hardware level -
>  virtually none of the hardware is emulated except the display & the
>  keyboard (and that in a limited fashion). At present it just maps 
>  MODE/DEL and the cursor keys onto CTRL/ALT & the cursor keys.
>  It is designed as a Dev tool rather than a strict emulator.

DOS is good (no comments please)

>  
>  However, it is no big deal to emulate the rest of the keyboard 
>  properly as its basically the same design as the Speccy... could
>  nick the code.
>  
>  It's quite happy under everything except NT. However, the difficult 
>  bit of it (the Z80) is 98%+ accurate. It was written for a 
>  Speccy & ZX81 emulator & checked against all the notorious 
>  wierd cases.
>  
>  I get the impression that most coders don't hit the hardware, (with
>  the possible exception of the Keyboard Matrix), so an O/S level
>  emulation should be ok. Is this correct ? Is there a need to emulate
>  the interrupts as well ?

Just use a Z80 emu off the web, and add misc.  hardware things so everything
will be emulated.  I know that there is a good one that can automatically
emulate all the memory, ports, etc.

>  
>  If anyone is interested there is a *very* early version at 
>  http://users.aol.com/autismuk/tev.zip (might be members.aol.com ?)
>  which has some early sprite/font libraries as well. All suggestions
>  are welcome. It has only been tested on v19 of the TI82 (I only have
>  one).
>  
>  Paul Robson (autismuk@aol.com)

it can be either one, members or users, it gets you to the same place

~Adamman

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