- yes, that 8080 emulator ought to work fine. Not sure what the performance would be like but it's certainly worth a try. Sadly, unless the author shows up and relicenses it I can't use that one ('may not be redistributed without express written permission of the author').
- llvm-mos: the only bits in C are some of the utilities, and that's only because I happened to have (buggy) C versions from one of my other CP/M projects. What I'd actually like to do is to write a PL/M compiler with LLVM and try and compile the original Digital Research code for the 8080 with it.
- re porting: should be trivial to do! The only thing you need is a BIOS, with console I/O and sector read/write. Everything else is the same. You can even use the same binaries. But the documentation is trivial, so if you're interested file a github issue and I'll try to assist.
Also, I _really_ want some software for this thing, primarily programming languages. I do plan to port Microsoft's BASIC (now open source), but I need an assembler. If anyone knows any suitable 6502 assemblers from back in the day _which have actual licenses_ please let me know.
Responding to a few random things posted here:
- yes, that 8080 emulator ought to work fine. Not sure what the performance would be like but it's certainly worth a try. Sadly, unless the author shows up and relicenses it I can't use that one ('may not be redistributed without express written permission of the author').
- llvm-mos: the only bits in C are some of the utilities, and that's only because I happened to have (buggy) C versions from one of my other CP/M projects. What I'd actually like to do is to write a PL/M compiler with LLVM and try and compile the original Digital Research code for the 8080 with it.
- re porting: should be trivial to do! The only thing you need is a BIOS, with console I/O and sector read/write. Everything else is the same. You can even use the same binaries. But the documentation is trivial, so if you're interested file a github issue and I'll try to assist.
Also, I _really_ want some software for this thing, primarily programming languages. I do plan to port Microsoft's BASIC (now open source), but I need an assembler. If anyone knows any suitable 6502 assemblers from back in the day _which have actual licenses_ please let me know.