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* [http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/FPGA%20Z80%20SBC/FPGA%20Z80%20SBC.htm#Installing%20Quartus S-100 Bus FPGA Z80 SBC Board]
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Our Retro-Computer Projects
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Land Boards EP2C5-DB FPGA Retro-Computer card
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Duplicates Grant Searle's design down to the pin maps
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Land Boards BASE-EP4CE6 card is a breakout board that connects via cables to the Land Boards EP2C5-DB card
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The Land Boards EP2C5-DB card adds extra logic and RAM resources beyond the EP2C5 FPGA
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Provides 16K of Internal SRAM
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Wiring is here
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Purchased EP4 FPGA card
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Includes VGA, PS/2 and USB-Serial converter
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Other I/O is serious limitation but a 16K retro machine without SD Card storage can easily be built
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Land Boards RETRO-EP4CE6
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Our Retro-Computer Video Series
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EP2 Video Series
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Please don't email asking us to sell you a board. We have tried to give Grant Searle some beer money for his hard work. We posted on Grant's Twitter feed with the hope of starting a conversation about this. No response so far. Others report the same from trying to get ahold of Grant. He did post this project publicly with permission for personal use with the only requirement be that he is attributed which we have retained in the source code as he requested. We are not charging for Grant's code in accordance with his licensing.
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Video Series
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EP4 Video Series
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S120 Bus Computer
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Back in 1977 (before my Ohio Scientific SuperBoard II I had my own homebrew computer. I never took any pictures of it and the hardware is long gone now. These are the pieces of it I remember.
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Ran on Elco? 120 pin edge connector cards
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6800 Processor board running at 1 MHz
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2K of Static RAM board
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2716 EEPROM board (may have had 4 sockets total, don't recall for sure)
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Front panel switches and LEDs to enter the address/data (Step/Insert) and blink lights
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I remember getting it to run and I do remember blinking a light back and forth on it. Once I got the SuperBoard II, I stopped working on my own board.
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It might be fun to reproduce that board!
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Pieces to Reproduce my original S120 Bus Computer
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Michael Holley's SWTPC 6800/6809 documentation collection
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N8VEM RetroComputing Wikipedia page
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Retrobrew Computers
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Kim-1 board - Similar concept
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Hardware
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M6800 VHDL code from OpenCores
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Software
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AS68 Cross Assembler
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ASM68C Cross Assembler
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Collection of Assembly Language tools for the M6800
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6800 Basics
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6800 Assembly Language Programming (pdf) by Lance Leventhal
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6800 Instruction Set Cheat Sheet
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Ohio Scientific SuperBoard II - My first commercial personal computer
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Osi-600.jpg
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SuperBoard II
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Manufacturer: Ohio Scientific
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Model 600 Rev B Board Manual
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Model: Superboard II ( Model 600 )
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Available: 1978
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Price: US $279 assembled
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CPU: 6502
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RAM: 4K static RAM, 8K max
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CEGMON - Monitor in 4K of EPROM
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Display: composite video, 30 X 30 text
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Built-in keyboard
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Single board design
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I eventually got a RAM expansion card with Floppy Disk Controller
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Ports: composite video, cassette
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Storage: cassette
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Microsoft BASIC
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2K Monitor ROM (CEGMON)
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Compkit 101 - British clone of the SuperBoard II
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Superboard II Documents
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Dave's OSI Repository - Lots of scanned documents up there - large file sizes
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Compukit UK101 Docs on Sourceforge]
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CEGMON Users Guide
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Sample Programs and Tapes
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CEGMON – a blast from the past
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Code for the 6502 microprocessor, mostly for the Replica 1 computer
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Nice page on the C1P/Superboard II
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6502 Instruction Set
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CC65 - C Compiler for the 6502 and OSI C1P
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Ohio Scientific-specific information for cc65
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cl65 Users Guide
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CC65 - C Compiler for the 6502
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CC65 Wiki
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SuperBoard II Emulator
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OSI Challenger 1P (8Kb) with Debugger - JAVA web based emulator
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OSI Challenger 1P (32Kb) with Disk Support - JAVA web based emulator
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pill_6502: 8-bit 6502 CPU and 6850 ACIA emulation on the STM32 blue pill to run Microsoft BASIC from 1977
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BASIC Programs
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10 I=1
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20 PRINT "HELLO DAVEY"
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30 I=I+1
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40 IF I < 5 GOTO 20
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SuperBoard II/ Retro-Tech Refresh
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I was looking around for a way to recreate my OSI Superboard and found Grant Searle's design.
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EP2C5-DB - Our creation of a daughtercard which implements Grant Searle's Multi-Computer
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CompuKit UK101
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Based on Cyclone II EP2C5 Mini Dev Board
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Someone built one of the CompuKit clones as a CPM box
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Compukit 101 video
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6502 Computer Projects
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Enhanced 6502 BASIC
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Experience porting Enhanced Basic to a 6502 Computer
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"EhBASIC is about 11 KB"
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6502.org - the place for retro 6502 projects
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System68
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L-Star: Software-Defined 6502 Computer - Uses a Propeller chip
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Pick-and-mix to create your own custom computer on a low-cost FPGA board
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Daryl's Computer Page
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Daryl has designed multiple single board computers
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Grant Searle's FPGA MultiComputer Project(s)
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Retro-Computer Map EP2 to EP4 card
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Map EP2 to EP4 card
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My Build of the Z80 Version
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CP/M on FPGA - by Grant Searle
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Archive.org copy of Grant's site from 2012
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Archive.org copy of Grant's Multicomp from 2012
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Fit results
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Two UART Serial interface
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No Video Display
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External RAM
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CPM-2UARTs-NoVideo.PNG
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Retrobrew Computer Builds of the Multicomp Project(s)
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MultiComputerZ80 build - Lots of extras
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Some folks made a MultiComputer PCB, too - Retrobrewing
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Another board
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Yet another board
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Jeelabs Building a MultiComp-based Z80
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Patch WordStar 3.0 to use ANSI screen commands
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Homebrew Z80
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"The Thing": FPGA + STM32
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Z80 BASIC on a Cyclone IV FPGA
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Neil Crook Builds of the Multicomp Project - 6809 Version
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Neil started from Grant Searle's work and fixed a number of issue with the VHDL code.
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Neil Crook's Wiki Page
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Neil Crook's Multicomp GitHub (with docs)
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Neil did work on the 6809 core that Grant Searle was using
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Changed reset to active-low, consistently asynchronous
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Changed clock to rising-edge
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Clocked the processor on the input (50MHz) clock rather than a divided clock
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Used the HOLD input to control the clock rate.
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Added MMU to control extended RAM
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Neil did some Video Display Unit (VDU) Modifications
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Neil's Memory Mapper
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Neil got SDHC working - the original was SD only
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Neil Crook's 6809 Multicomp FPGA builds - very helpful
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Neil Crook's 6809 Wiki of Multicomp FPGA builds - very helpful
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Starting FORTH - First book of learning FORTH
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CP/M Resources on the Net
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Digital Research CP/M Site
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A Short History of CP/M
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BBC BASIC (Z80)
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BBC BASIC (Z80) Manual
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CP/M Console Command Processor Instructions
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OAK Repository - CP/M Archive - On the Wayback machine
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Intro to Z80 Retrocomputing - Scott Baker's series on the RC2014
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Digital Research Source Code
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CP/M Programming Languages and Tools retroarchive page
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http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/cpm/mirrors/www.retroarchive.org/cpm/lang/lang.htm retroarchive page - mirror
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Multicomp FPGA - CP/M Demo Disk
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CP/M Notes
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CP/M is not case sensitive
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REN NEWNAME.EXT=OLDNAME.EXT - Rename a file from the old to the new name
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ERA FILE2ERA.EXT - Erase a file
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Asterisk is wildcard
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.COM are command files
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PIP - copy command
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PIP NEWCOPY.EXT=COPYFROM.EXT - Copy from COPYFROM.EXT to NEWCOPY.EXT
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Drive references A:
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Drives go from A-???
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LS is a better direction program
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Microsoft BASIC Notes
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SAVE "MYPROG.BAS"
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LOAD "MYPROG.BAS"
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SYSTEM -- Return to CP/M
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NAME "OLDFILE.BAS" AS "NEWFILE.BAS"
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NEW - Delete program
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OUT 132,1 -- Output to I/O port 132
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PRINT MEM - Free memory (6809 Extended BASIC)
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Notes
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Grant noted about the SD card interface:
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... the SD controller is easy to control - in BASIC POKE the sector number, POKE the write command,
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POKE 512 bytes to the same location to write a sector,
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or POKE the sector number, POKE the read command, and PEEK 512 bytes to read a sector.
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DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) Computers
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PDP-8 in VHDL
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A FGPA Implementation of the PDP-8
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PDP-8 Processor Core and System :: Overview
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The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8 - Memory Reference Instructions
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PDP-11 in VHDL
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Computer Simulation and History
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External Sites
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Grant Searle Terminal Design
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Uses two Arduino'ish processors to implement an entire terminal
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NTSC output
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PS/2 Keyboard input
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Grant Searle's Monitor Keyboard Design
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ATMega328Video%202.2.gif
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Older AtMEGA32 version of Monitor Keyboard Design
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My implementation of Grant's small serial terminal design.
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SerialTerminal-P1010506-720px.jpg
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RetroBrew Computers Site
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RetroBrew Computers Forum
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pagetable - Probably the best C64 technical data out there
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Github for all things C64

Revision as of 18:04, 19 January 2020

Multicomp FPGA Retrocomputer Builds

RETRO-EP4 FPGA

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RETRO-EP4CE15 FPGA

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EP2C5-DB FPGA

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Z80

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Our Retro-Computer Projects Land Boards EP2C5-DB FPGA Retro-Computer card Duplicates Grant Searle's design down to the pin maps Land Boards BASE-EP4CE6 card is a breakout board that connects via cables to the Land Boards EP2C5-DB card The Land Boards EP2C5-DB card adds extra logic and RAM resources beyond the EP2C5 FPGA Provides 16K of Internal SRAM Wiring is here Purchased EP4 FPGA card Includes VGA, PS/2 and USB-Serial converter Other I/O is serious limitation but a 16K retro machine without SD Card storage can easily be built Land Boards RETRO-EP4CE6 Our Retro-Computer Video Series EP2 Video Series Please don't email asking us to sell you a board. We have tried to give Grant Searle some beer money for his hard work. We posted on Grant's Twitter feed with the hope of starting a conversation about this. No response so far. Others report the same from trying to get ahold of Grant. He did post this project publicly with permission for personal use with the only requirement be that he is attributed which we have retained in the source code as he requested. We are not charging for Grant's code in accordance with his licensing.

Video Series






EP4 Video Series





S120 Bus Computer Back in 1977 (before my Ohio Scientific SuperBoard II I had my own homebrew computer. I never took any pictures of it and the hardware is long gone now. These are the pieces of it I remember.

Ran on Elco? 120 pin edge connector cards 6800 Processor board running at 1 MHz 2K of Static RAM board 2716 EEPROM board (may have had 4 sockets total, don't recall for sure) Front panel switches and LEDs to enter the address/data (Step/Insert) and blink lights I remember getting it to run and I do remember blinking a light back and forth on it. Once I got the SuperBoard II, I stopped working on my own board.

It might be fun to reproduce that board!

Pieces to Reproduce my original S120 Bus Computer Michael Holley's SWTPC 6800/6809 documentation collection N8VEM RetroComputing Wikipedia page Retrobrew Computers Kim-1 board - Similar concept Hardware M6800 VHDL code from OpenCores Software AS68 Cross Assembler ASM68C Cross Assembler Collection of Assembly Language tools for the M6800 6800 Basics 6800 Assembly Language Programming (pdf) by Lance Leventhal 6800 Instruction Set Cheat Sheet Ohio Scientific SuperBoard II - My first commercial personal computer Osi-600.jpg

SuperBoard II

Manufacturer: Ohio Scientific Model 600 Rev B Board Manual Model: Superboard II ( Model 600 ) Available: 1978 Price: US $279 assembled CPU: 6502 RAM: 4K static RAM, 8K max CEGMON - Monitor in 4K of EPROM Display: composite video, 30 X 30 text Built-in keyboard Single board design I eventually got a RAM expansion card with Floppy Disk Controller Ports: composite video, cassette Storage: cassette Microsoft BASIC 2K Monitor ROM (CEGMON) Compkit 101 - British clone of the SuperBoard II Superboard II Documents Dave's OSI Repository - Lots of scanned documents up there - large file sizes Compukit UK101 Docs on Sourceforge] CEGMON Users Guide Sample Programs and Tapes CEGMON – a blast from the past Code for the 6502 microprocessor, mostly for the Replica 1 computer Nice page on the C1P/Superboard II 6502 Instruction Set CC65 - C Compiler for the 6502 and OSI C1P Ohio Scientific-specific information for cc65 cl65 Users Guide CC65 - C Compiler for the 6502 CC65 Wiki SuperBoard II Emulator OSI Challenger 1P (8Kb) with Debugger - JAVA web based emulator OSI Challenger 1P (32Kb) with Disk Support - JAVA web based emulator pill_6502: 8-bit 6502 CPU and 6850 ACIA emulation on the STM32 blue pill to run Microsoft BASIC from 1977 BASIC Programs 10 I=1 20 PRINT "HELLO DAVEY" 30 I=I+1 40 IF I < 5 GOTO 20

SuperBoard II/ Retro-Tech Refresh I was looking around for a way to recreate my OSI Superboard and found Grant Searle's design.

EP2C5-DB - Our creation of a daughtercard which implements Grant Searle's Multi-Computer CompuKit UK101 Based on Cyclone II EP2C5 Mini Dev Board Someone built one of the CompuKit clones as a CPM box Compukit 101 video

6502 Computer Projects Enhanced 6502 BASIC Experience porting Enhanced Basic to a 6502 Computer "EhBASIC is about 11 KB" 6502.org - the place for retro 6502 projects System68 L-Star: Software-Defined 6502 Computer - Uses a Propeller chip Pick-and-mix to create your own custom computer on a low-cost FPGA board Daryl's Computer Page Daryl has designed multiple single board computers Grant Searle's FPGA MultiComputer Project(s) Retro-Computer Map EP2 to EP4 card Map EP2 to EP4 card My Build of the Z80 Version CP/M on FPGA - by Grant Searle Archive.org copy of Grant's site from 2012 Archive.org copy of Grant's Multicomp from 2012 Fit results Two UART Serial interface No Video Display External RAM CPM-2UARTs-NoVideo.PNG

Retrobrew Computer Builds of the Multicomp Project(s) MultiComputerZ80 build - Lots of extras Some folks made a MultiComputer PCB, too - Retrobrewing Another board Yet another board Jeelabs Building a MultiComp-based Z80 Patch WordStar 3.0 to use ANSI screen commands Homebrew Z80 "The Thing": FPGA + STM32 Z80 BASIC on a Cyclone IV FPGA Neil Crook Builds of the Multicomp Project - 6809 Version Neil started from Grant Searle's work and fixed a number of issue with the VHDL code.

Neil Crook's Wiki Page Neil Crook's Multicomp GitHub (with docs) Neil did work on the 6809 core that Grant Searle was using Changed reset to active-low, consistently asynchronous Changed clock to rising-edge Clocked the processor on the input (50MHz) clock rather than a divided clock Used the HOLD input to control the clock rate. Added MMU to control extended RAM Neil did some Video Display Unit (VDU) Modifications Neil's Memory Mapper Neil got SDHC working - the original was SD only Neil Crook's 6809 Multicomp FPGA builds - very helpful Neil Crook's 6809 Wiki of Multicomp FPGA builds - very helpful Starting FORTH - First book of learning FORTH CP/M Resources on the Net Digital Research CP/M Site A Short History of CP/M BBC BASIC (Z80) BBC BASIC (Z80) Manual CP/M Console Command Processor Instructions OAK Repository - CP/M Archive - On the Wayback machine Intro to Z80 Retrocomputing - Scott Baker's series on the RC2014 Digital Research Source Code CP/M Programming Languages and Tools retroarchive page http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/cpm/mirrors/www.retroarchive.org/cpm/lang/lang.htm retroarchive page - mirror Multicomp FPGA - CP/M Demo Disk CP/M Notes CP/M is not case sensitive REN NEWNAME.EXT=OLDNAME.EXT - Rename a file from the old to the new name ERA FILE2ERA.EXT - Erase a file Asterisk is wildcard .COM are command files PIP - copy command PIP NEWCOPY.EXT=COPYFROM.EXT - Copy from COPYFROM.EXT to NEWCOPY.EXT Drive references A: Drives go from A-??? LS is a better direction program Microsoft BASIC Notes SAVE "MYPROG.BAS" LOAD "MYPROG.BAS" SYSTEM -- Return to CP/M NAME "OLDFILE.BAS" AS "NEWFILE.BAS" NEW - Delete program OUT 132,1 -- Output to I/O port 132 PRINT MEM - Free memory (6809 Extended BASIC) Notes Grant noted about the SD card interface:

... the SD controller is easy to control - in BASIC POKE the sector number, POKE the write command, POKE 512 bytes to the same location to write a sector, or POKE the sector number, POKE the read command, and PEEK 512 bytes to read a sector. DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) Computers PDP-8 in VHDL A FGPA Implementation of the PDP-8 PDP-8 Processor Core and System :: Overview The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8 - Memory Reference Instructions PDP-11 in VHDL Computer Simulation and History External Sites Grant Searle Terminal Design Uses two Arduino'ish processors to implement an entire terminal NTSC output PS/2 Keyboard input Grant Searle's Monitor Keyboard Design ATMega328Video%202.2.gif

Older AtMEGA32 version of Monitor Keyboard Design My implementation of Grant's small serial terminal design. SerialTerminal-P1010506-720px.jpg

RetroBrew Computers Site RetroBrew Computers Forum pagetable - Probably the best C64 technical data out there Github for all things C64