breakintoprog

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by breakintoprog 5y ago
I moved from Sinclair/Amstrad CPC games development onto the Gameboy. Initially the lack of EXX and IX/IY proved to be a bit of a pain. It's also missing the LDI(R)/LDD(R) opcodes. However, I dimly remember using its LD
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by breakintoprog 5y ago
A couple of my favourites include: "There's no such thing as a stupid question." "Design things for the person who's going to maintain it. It may be you."
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by breakintoprog 5y ago
Performant as a measure of speed against rival BASIC interpreters. BBC Basic is recognised as being one of the fastest floating point BASIC interpreters written for 8-bit CPUs. This was partly down to how the language was coded (in 6502 ori
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by breakintoprog 5y ago
This is an ongoing project I started during Covid lockdown, building a fully functional and MSX compliant computer on a breadboard. It's a good introduction to CPUs, logic, and digital electronics. This is part 1 of a series that I upd
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by breakintoprog 5y ago
Indeed! R.T.Russel's Z80 version also includes a built-in Z80 assembler that works in exactly the same way. Being able to inline assembler with BASIC was a stroke of genius, and many developers of the day relied upon it to assemble the
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by breakintoprog 5y ago
Hi, A quick synposis on my project: The BBC Basic for Z80 kernel was written by R.T.Russell around the same time as the original 6502 version that ran on the BBC Micro. The CP/M version was open-sourced in 2019, and I used that core BA
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Building a Z80-based computer on a breadboard (Part 1)(breakintoprogram.co.uk)
1 points by breakintoprog 5y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum Next(breakintoprogram.co.uk)
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