The BSX Homebrew Project is an interest challenge for me, as it involves hardware and software. I’ve been concentrating on the hardware up until now, but there is a reasonable amount of software running on ROM now to assist in further hardware and software developments. If you want to cut to the quick and go straight to the source, you can find it here on my GitHub. The Monitor Program The BSX boots into the …
I was rather hoping that my long-winded series on fixing a 48K Spectrum had concluded with Part 8, but it turns out this Spectrum had one more surprise in store for me. Last month, I borrowed its keyboard whilst testing a new ROM image in my Harlequin. I tested it afterwards and it decided to fail with garbage on screen. This is symptomatic of lower RAM failure, so I quickly unplugged it, got my multimeter …
One of the advantages of lockdown is that spare time is often in plentiful supply. I noted a few months ago that BBC Basic for Z80 by R.T.Russell is now open source, and available under a zlib license. Inspired by the work of David Given who has included it to his CPMish project, I decided to have a crack at porting it to my BSX Breadboard Computer. I had to fettle the source files slightly …
