Introduction - BBCBASIC on the eZ80 for the RC2014/RCBus

[dinoboards]

Hi Dean,

I have been encouraged by the man himself, Mr R.T. Russell, to make contact. 😄

First, just let me express my appreciation for your BBC-Basic work to make it work in ADL mode -- cool achievement.

I have recently been playing with your bbc-basic extensions for ADL mode. But not to use on the Agon platform, but rather for my RC2014/RCBus eZ80 compatible kit. (I developed a kit that allows the eZ80 to be used in the existing kit platform - and can boot up and run CP/M, under RomWBW HBIOS)

I started to enhance your version to support some of the hardware/os specific elements of my kit (eg V9958 Video Processor, CP/M OS, etc)

But then I found that R.T. Russell has updated his core version of the BBC-BASIC to support new language features (consistent with BBCBasic for Windows SDL, etc)

I naturally wanted both of these - but its not a simple git merge of the 2 repos.

So I forked R.T. Russell repo, and started doing the conversion to ADL again - using your specific changes where i can as a guide, and where R.T. Russell has made significant changes, tried to figure out the changes.

My code, if you are interested in, is hosted at: https://github.com/dinoboards/bbcbasic-eZ80-for-rc/tree/dean/converting-to-adl

Cheers From Another Dean