Jörg Linder has disassembled and thoroughly commented a great deal of the BPBIOS binaries. This was an incredible amount of work. I have added all of these to the RomWBW build scripts and will ultimately integrate them more completely.
- I finally realized there was a much simpler way to setup the instance data pointer (IY) for the interrupt handler. This implements the change and reduces the complexity of the code.
- Related to PR #460
- Added RCEZ80 platform option to Build.ps1
- Added EZ80 config settings to MASTER config (required to get build to work for some situations)
- Modified a .EQU in cfg_RCEZ80.asm to a .SET. After adding config setting to MASTER config, the .EQU was causing a redefinition error.
- I have temporarily removed some "TRANSLATE" lines in ez80uart.asm. They were attempting to place a value greater that 0xFFFF in a register and generated an assembly error.
- Modified a few JR instructions in hbios.asm to JP due to out-of-range errors.
- Modified std.asm to "nest" a conditional. The Windows assembler does not ignore the remainder of a complex conditional when it should.
- Modified tms.asm to replace the PRTS macro with alternative lines. The Windows assembler cannot handle a string longer than about 8 characters in a macro argument.
- Added the TIMER utility to the ROM disk. Not sure what happened there. It was included in the Windows build, but not the Linux build. There is room for it, so I added it to the Linux build to get a binary exact build compare.
- Implement Interrupt Mode 2 (Mode 1 is still default)
- Implement interrupt driven keyboard support
- Improve UART keyboard driver to support interrupt driven flow control
- Rearranged HBIOS code to improve colocation of related code.
- Implemented macros to improve control over assembly diagnostic output.
- Improved handling of diagnostic LEDs.
- Improved application boot bank management.
- Implemented application boot for Z280 systems.
- Moved Z280_BNKSEL into proxy.
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- Modified TMS driver to always imbed an uncompressed font. This is because I have found no reasonable way to decompress a font while an OS is still active without mangling some of the OSes RAM.
- This change avoids clearing the screen every time an OS reset occurs. A non-destructive VDC reset is now performed that leaves the screen contents and cursor position unchanged.
- If an application overwrites the video RAM, then the screen may contain garbage upon return to OS. However, the console will still be functional and the user can just press enter a few times to clear the screen.
- The TMS reset function was missing a call to re-initialize the CRT registers. This has been added.
- The SN76489 powers up in a dreadful state where it is emitting loud noise until initialized. Added a PREINIT entry point to initialize the registers earlier. Still not great, but a lot better.
- Minor doc updates
- Comment updates in ansi.asm and tms.asm
- Correction to build process for ROMless systems
- Fix for ZRC (default configuration) to use all available RAM
