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It’s alive! Z-80 Computer hardware now complete.

It's Alive: Z-80 Homebrew

I have just finished assembling the memory board of my Z-80 homebrew project. All components individually tested, I placed the test program on the ROM, inserted the Z-80 and it worked first time!

It's Alive: Z-80 Homebrew
It’s Alive: Z-80 Homebrew

There is still a little more to do on modifying the I/O board to run the monitor program (which also needs writing) as the board was designed to test the various different circuits. However, the computer successfully executes the following test routine:

;COMPUTER TEST ROUTINE
;
;OUTPUTS ON PORT 0 ANY INPUT ON PORT 0 WHILST CALLING AN EMPTY SUBROUTINE
;
;

LD SP,9000H

L1: IN A,(00H)
CALL TEST
OUT (00H),A
JP L1
TEST RET

This outputs on port 0 any input on port 0 whilst using the stack pointer to save the value of the program counter in the RAM for the execution of an empty subroutine. Thus the I/O, ROM and RAM are all tested. Monitor listing to come soon no doubt.