newbie building a scratch-built computer (River)

Roy J. Tellason rtellason at verizon.net
Sat Aug 4 15:23:19 CDT 2007


On Friday 03 August 2007 18:35, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > I've been thinking about that,  aren't there cross-assemblers out
> > there that
> > would do the job?  I'd be interested in hearing about any that
> > would run
> > under linux,  for the z80,  8085,  or 6502 chips...
>
>    I use zmac (see http://www.speccy.org/metalbrain/link-eng.htm)
> under OS X and Solaris for Z80 assembler work.  It should build fine
> under Linux.
>
>             -Dave

Looks pretty good.  Only thing I see in there that I don't like is the ds 
directive making defined storage zero bytes -- I'd rather it left things 
uninitialized,  for various reasons.

Now where did I put that source code...?    :-)

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