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Can I program assembly and basic on this model? It seems like the Kickstarter confirms basic prompt, but not sure about assembly. Does the user manual help for
by 7thaccount 6y ago
Can I program assembly and basic on this model? It seems like the Kickstarter confirms basic prompt, but not sure about assembly. Does the user manual help for someone with very minimal assembly knowledge?
- codezero 6y agoI'm not authoritative, but have been following this and many other similar retro computing devices. As far as I'm aware the FPGA onboard does brutally accurate emulation of the original Z80 hardware, so you should be able to write assembly and basic (and I believe it boots to a BASIC kernal yeah, that's how they spell it back in the 8 bit days :) ) The device can run in many different modes, but I've seen nothing that indicates a limitation to BASIC. The only device I've seen lately that is pure BASIC, is the Colour Maximite 2 - but it does BASIC so darn fast, it's almost a feature :) If you're interested in other things I've dug up while in my retro computing phase, check out the Turbo Chameleon 64. Lots of neat FPGA and emulation hardware out there these days. Colour Maximite 2: https://geoffg.net/maximite.html https://geoffg.net/maximite.html Turbo Chameleon 64: https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php?title=Turbo_Chameleon_64 https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php?title=Turbo_Chameleon_64 and https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/Turbo_Chameleon_64.html https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/Turbo_Chameleon_...
- 7thaccount 6y agoNeat. Thanks for the response and links!