Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video]
by actionfromafar on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:21AM
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I bought one from a classified in a computer magazine. The guy who sold it had written it himself, in hand assembled machine code. I knew there existed other assemblers, but I couldn't find any to pirate or buy.
I didn't have a disk drive, only the standard cassette deck, so before selling it to me he had to slightly rewrite the assembler to support loading and saving programs to cassette.
In the end, the syntax was not exactly like in the Rodney books. Some examples worked, some not, so I resorted quite a bit to hand assembling myself.
Re:The Z80's feature discovered after 40 years [video]
by wazoox on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:01PM
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As I had the Rodney book (and no disk drive: it was twice as expensive as my computer!) at least I implemented my assembler as the one from the book :)
I didn't have a disk drive, only the standard cassette deck, so before selling it to me he had to slightly rewrite the assembler to support loading and saving programs to cassette.
In the end, the syntax was not exactly like in the Rodney books. Some examples worked, some not, so I resorted quite a bit to hand assembling myself.