Update of ”TRS-80 Model 1 on a PIC32”

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Overview

Artifact ID: 59091068b7e6eb7ed7cebc65e3f0df526ea81c3e
Page Name:TRS-80 Model 1 on a PIC32
Date: 2018-04-23 05:07:17
Original User: ziggurat29
Parent: 8cff8aa421ebf22f7a138df7961ee29d9d600f0b (diff)
Next 72ddfae4e973a9d60e7a91561fde948febcee9e5
Content

This project is an implementation of a TRS-80 Model 1 emulator on a PIC32 processor. It provides VGA video out and PS/2 keyboard in so as to be usable with commonly available console hardware to-date.

More specifically, I am using an existing PIC32 'breakout board' (the 'UBW32') mounted on another board that provides some connectors for VGA and PS/2 keyboard, originally intended for the 'UBW32 Colour Maximite'. This was a great convenience to me in avoiding laying out a board (and soldering the fine-pitch smd!), but that should still be feasible to anyone wanting to do so, since there are very few external parts from the PIC32 -- my focus was getting the software running.

I have also adapted this to the Olimex Duinomite-mini board. That board has a few limitations (monochrome, only one PWM channel, finicky power supply), but is otherwise serviceable.

Progress notes are logged via 'tech notes' entries in the Timeline, which realizes a blog, of sorts. (Note: incidentally, you'll need to log in as 'anonymous' to get the embedded images in the documentation. This is some permission issue I don't understand. Also, you may need to hit 'refresh' sometimes if one of the images doesn't come down due to some other issue I don't understand. See next paragraph on how to do this.)

If you log in as 'anonymous' via login page; you'll be able to see more details about code checkins, and also be able to download the code as a zip/tarball for your perusal (sorry; the whole anonymous bit is about avoiding spiders eating up bandwidth).

Portions of this code were derived from other sources:

Happy retro-computing!