Archive for the ‘MAME’ Category
Generally MAME emulations that would use a terminal make use of the built in terminal emulation. So you can just start MAME and get going with a screen like this: But that has some limitations, such as you can’t copy from it, or paste into it. Also if you want to use the MAME display […]
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Tags: COM, emulator, MAME, port, RC2014, serial, terminal
New RC2014 MAME Driver
Miodrag Milanović has created a new RC2014 driver for MAME, and it’s very comprehensive, offering a full range of systems, backplanes and boards. This post is intended to be a quick tour of how to use it. At the time of writing the new driver hasn’t yet made it to a MAME release, but it […]
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Tags: CPM, MAME, RC2014, Zork
March 2022
Pupdate Although it’s looking ready to snow outside as I type, we’ve had some glorious summery weather in March, which means plenty of time outside running around for the boys. But the picture that grabbed most attention was this one: People thought we’d got another sausage dog, but it was just the boys hanging out […]
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Tags: eSIM, IoT, MAME, MWC, RC2014, TMS9995, travel
My original attempt at an RC2014 Mini driver started out as pretty much a copy of the gsz80 driver, with a find/replace of ‘gsz80’ with ‘rc2014mini’. But as the MAME team reviewed my pull request, they surfaced a bunch of problems. Firstly I didn’t have the correct memory map. The RC2014 Mini only has 32K […]
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Tags: C++, MAME, RC2014
Decoding the MAME Rosetta Stone
I mentioned in my previous post Grant Searle Simple Z-80 Machine on MAME that the gsz80.cpp driver was like finding a Rosetta Stone for MAME. In this post I’m going to go through it block by block to explain how I parsed it, and how it enabled me to figure out how to write a […]
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Tags: C++, MAME, RC2014, Z80
In my RC2014 Mini on MAME post this was one of the things I was planning to try next, and once again there was an existing driver that had most of the pieces in place – evmbug.cpp implementing the TMS 9995 Evaluation Module (aka TMAM 6095). My first job was getting the existing driver working, […]
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Tags: EVMBUG, MAME, RC2014, TMS9995
RC2014 Mini on MAME
TL;DR Getting an RC2014 Mini working based on the Grant Searle Simple Z-80 Machine driver was pretty trivial, but it’s been enough to get me going with MAME development and persuade me to try some other things. Background I know there are already emulators out there already for the RC2014, I’ve used EtchedPixels/RC2014 a bit […]
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Tags: build, MAME, mini, RC2014, rc2014mini, ROM, tools
TL;DR I’ve been wanting to try emulating some RC2014 stuff using MAME for some time, and I think I’ve found my way into it with the MAME driver for Grant Searle’s Simple Z-80 Machine. Background Back when I was making my TMS9995 on RC2014 system part of my adventure into the lands of TI-99/4A fans […]
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Tags: bin, Grant Searle, gsz80, hex, MAME, RC2014, retro, ROM, Z80
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