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Kerri Shotts Feb 24, 2024

#Retroputer #fpga is successfully running the init portion of Retroputer BASIC. Welcome text and "READY." are getting successfully printed to both the console and screen memory (at 0x10000).

Retroputer doesn't use ascii — it has its own graphical symbols above 0x7F, so console output isn't ideal. Also not handling escape sequences correctly on the console.

Next up: wire up the serial input to simulate a keyboard and see if it can actually run BASIC programs... may need more math support tho.

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Kerri Shotts

#Retroputer #fpga

Just to compare w/ the emulator version of Retroputer -- still a long ways to go (will need to figure out the video generator & some sort of output signal... preferably HDMI, but that’s a ways off still)

Even with a long way to go, it feels really nice to have something in hardware that's doing the same things as the emulated version!