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@@ -10,14 +10,23 @@ A wide variety of platforms are supported including those
produced by these developer communities:
* [RetroBrew Computers](https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org)
* [RC2014](https://rc2014.co.uk), [RC2014-Z80](https://groups.google.com/g/rc2014-z80)
* [retro-comp](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/retro-comp)
(<https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org>)
* [RC2014](https://rc2014.co.uk) (<https://rc2014.co.uk>), \
[RC2014-Z80](https://groups.google.com/g/rc2014-z80)
(<https://groups.google.com/g/rc2014-z80>)
* [Retro Computing](https://groups.google.com/g/retro-comp)
(<https://groups.google.com/g/retro-comp>)
* [Small Computer Central](https://smallcomputercentral.com/)
(<https://smallcomputercentral.com/>)
A complete list of the currently supported platforms is found in the
[Installation] section.
General features include:
* Z80 Family CPUs including Z80, Z180, and Z280
* Banked memory services for several banking designs
* Disk drivers for RAM, ROM, Floppy, IDE, CF, and SD
* Disk drivers for RAM, ROM, Floppy, IDE ATA/ATAPI, CF, SD, USB, Zip, Iomega
* Serial drivers including UART (16550-like), ASCI, ACIA, SIO
* Video drivers including TMS9918, SY6545, MOS8563, HD6445
* Keyboard (PS/2) drivers via VT8242 or PPI interfaces
@@ -34,12 +43,12 @@ ROM firmware itself:
* ROM BASIC (Nascom BASIC and Tasty BASIC)
* ROM Forth
A dynamic disk drive letter assignment mechanism allows mapping
operating system drive letters to any available disk media.
Additionally, mass storage devices (IDE Disk, CF Card, SD Card) support
the use of multiple slices (up to 256 per device). Each slice contains
a complete CP/M filesystem and can be mapped independently to any
drive letter. This overcomes the inherent size limitations in legacy
A dynamic disk drive letter assignment mechanism allows mapping
operating system drive letters to any available disk media.
Additionally, mass storage devices (IDE Disk, CF Card, SD Card, etc.)
support the use of multiple slices (up to 256 per device). Each slice
contains a complete CP/M filesystem and can be mapped independently to
any drive letter. This overcomes the inherent size limitations in legacy
OSes and allows up to 2GB of accessible storage on a single device.
The pre-built ROM firmware images are generally suitable for most
@@ -61,7 +70,7 @@ By design, RomWBW isolates all of the hardware specific functions in
the ROM chip itself. The ROM provides a hardware abstraction layer
such that all of the operating systems and applications on a disk
will run on any RomWBW-based system. To put it simply, you can take
a disk (or CF/SD Card) and move it between systems transparently.
a disk (or CF/SD/USB Card) and move it between systems transparently.
A tool is provided that allows you to access a FAT-12/16/32 filesystem.
The FAT filesystem may be coresident on the same disk media as RomWBW
@@ -70,18 +79,19 @@ OSes such as Windows, MacOS, and Linux very easy.
# Acquiring RomWBW
The [RomWBW Repository](https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW) on GitHub is
the official distribution location for all project source and
documentation. The fully-built distribution releases are available on
the [RomWBW Releases Page](https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW/releases)
of the repository. On this page, you will normally see a Development
Snapshot as well as recent stable releases. Unless you have a specific
reason, I suggest you stick to the most recent stable release. Expand
the "Assets" drop-down for the release you want to download, then select
the asset named RomWBW-vX.X.X-Package.zip. The Package asset includes
all pre-built ROM and Disk images as well as full source code. The other
assets contain only source code and do not have the pre-built ROM or
disk images.
The [RomWBW Repository](https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW)
(<https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW>) on GitHub is the official
distribution location for all project source and documentation. The
fully-built distribution releases are available on the
[RomWBW Releases Page](https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW/releases)
(<https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW/releases>) of the repository. On
this page, you will normally see a Development Snapshot as well as
recent stable releases. Unless you have a specific reason, I suggest you
stick to the most recent stable release. Expand the "Assets" drop-down
for the release you want to download, then select the asset named
RomWBW-vX.X.X-Package.zip. The Package asset includes all pre-built ROM
and Disk images as well as full source code. The other assets contain
only source code and do not have the pre-built ROM or disk images.
All source code and distributions are maintained on GitHub. Code
contributions are very welcome.