[Coco] CP/M emulator for OS9/6809

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 16:01:04 EDT 2014


I'm afraid the design is fairly more complicated. You need to refresh the
dram, allow the coco to read/write on it while the z-80 is halted. Or make
a mechanism through z-80 ports and create a transfer protocol between the
z-80 and the coco.



On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:13 PM, <iggybeans at comcast.net> wrote:

> Luis gives us yet another great little gift.
> CP/M under OS-9 without a Z-80, very cool.
>
> Luis, how much added work would be needed to use a real Z-80 on a card?
> Just curious because the parts cost would be even lower than your Wordpak
> 2+.
>
> The Z-80 can be had for less than $1 and 64k is now available as a single
> chip .
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