z00m's speccy corner

Whereas quite decent PCB scans of the Didaktik M´92 are available, I decided to redraw the printed circuit board in the Sprint Layout editor. You can find the result on the Hardware page. And at the same time I corrected the schematic diagram, because there were some minor discrepancies. Enjoy! ...

I took the preserved documentation for Proface and I created modernized versions of external and internal variants in Kicad. I also made new printed circuit boards, but I won't publish the gerbers, as the new fashion has become to take a freely available project and turn it into a business. I will not support these individuals. If you are interested in a printed circuit board, there will be a thread on Oldcomp where you will be able to report your interest. With a sufficient number of interested...

SjASMPlus 1.18.2 was released. Changelog: [may break old sources] new exist operator to check label existence the --syntax=i mode makes now also register parsing case insensitive minor bugfixes (predefined values, savenex BMP loader less strict about "colors used" content) Get it on Github or in Software...

SjASMPlus 1.18.1 was released. Changelog: Big-Endian hosts support (experimental and not tested continuously) added "listall", "listact" commands to OPT - to switch between listing types WHILE has optional argument to set explicit guardian-counter ASSERT has optional argument (to add description/notes for expression) SLOT and MMU will now accept also starting address of slot instead of its number fix: option --sym was not exporting labels starting with underscore fix: SAVENEX BMP-loader bug when...

SjASMPlus 1.18.0 was released. Changelog: [may break old sources] the colon between end of EQU/DEFL/= expression and instruction is mandatory [may break old sources] new abs operator for absolute integer value new system of warnings (and suppression), the "; ok" comments are now deprecated DISPLAY has now also binary and char formatting DEFINE+ added to [re]define identifier without error ELSEIF added to conditional assembling arsenal WHILE added for conditional loops added "NOSLOT64K" device...