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bedroom Z80

The bedroom Z80 is a Z80-based microcomputer with an advanced I/O system, boot scheme, and graphics hardware:

  • On boot, the coldboot ROM will search a FAT SD card for a bootfile, load it into RAM, and execute it. Due to a quirk in the way the Z80 (and CP/M) operates, once the ROM has finished its work, it will remove itself from the memory address space.

  • It will be able to recognise a signifigant number of I/O devices. One recognised, the I/O device will be assigned an area of I/O space, and a driver will be loaded to communicate with the device.

  • The graphics system will be more advanced than most homebrew computer projects. It will have a custom TTL logic graphics card that will be able to display 320x200 in 16 colours over VGA.

Todo:

  • Design mainboard

  • Design graphics board

  • Program ROM

  • Port software (customized FUZIX)?