I became curious by the Apple-1, the original must have Apple product, the Ford Model T of computers if you like. All you got was a circuit board, but no keyboard or monitor (a bit like the raspberry Pi of its day). I decided to look for an emulator for it, and at this stage knew nothing of the Apple-1's underpinnings. It wasn't a Z80 but my old friend the 6502. I've not touched the 6502 since secondary school when I used to play with the Commodore PET/CBM in the early 80's.
I got the Pom-1 emulator in Java flavor and downloaded the Apple-1 manual.
I soon realised that to program the Apple-1 you just entered 6502 machine codes and ran the machine code programs. No BASIC interpreter (although there is a 6502 program for the Apple-1 that you can load in to get BASIC). So I set about relearning 6502 machine language and so far my efforts have resulted in my first "Hello World!" program.
Here's a screenshot of the code and it running:
\ is the only screen indication that the Apple-1 is alive. 0.22 displays the first 23 bytes and R runs from address 0.
Why is this relevant? Well this is something like what I want to build with the Z80
In theory, you have 4 digit RAM and I have 8. So I was wondering if you had SIMM, because I have DIMM. It makes sense to me that DIMM ment two 4 digit machine codes per line?
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