A86: Emulation

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: A86: Emulation
From: Grams Family <grams@netcarrier.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:45:30
In-Reply-To: <01bd3b54$82ab54c0$LocalHost@usinet.jpmeyer>
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org


At 08:31 PM 2/16/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>That's half right and half wrong.  As far as the ROM, you don't need to know
>how it works - BUT you do need to know how the ports work, since they are
>specific to certain devices.  On the 86 for instance, you need to know port
>0 for the screen, port 1 for keypresses, port 7 for the link, port 3 for
>power status, ports 5 and 6 for ROM and RAM pages, port 2 for contrast, etc.
>But as far as having to know the ROM any Z80 emulator should work as long as
>you can add the functions of each port.
>
Yeah, but the ports (and the stuff connected to them) are hardware. If you
emulate ALL the hardware, you can  just plug in a ROM and have it work.

--Joshua

References:

Re: A86: very very odd

From: "Kirk Meyer" <_@IBM.net>