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For application writing and publishing, it is needed to have a unique application card id, if you are going to produce EPROM card application software for application cards. When Cambridge Computer still were manufactoring manufacturing the Z88, they administrated the card id's. Since they moved their office to Scotland (and have stopped production and interest of Z88), the When the company folded, card id registrations were lost. Many years since , we had to find another waya new method has been developed; the Z88 development team has now implemented a card builder tool which generates unique ID's using CRC32 CRC-32 checksum on the binary application code. Chances of card ID conflicts are small ..and guarantees safe installation of application cards on the Z88.
Z88 Assembler Workbench
The Z88 development project at http://cambridgez88.jira.com have made a substantial effort to produce project provides a fully featured Z80 macro assembler tool-chain containing a Z80 CPU cross assembler / linker / library manager, application card builder tool , linker and library manager and Z88 computer emulator, commonly labelled as the Z88 Assembler Workbench. This toolchain is used to compile large assembler application projects such as the OZ operating system . The Z88 Assembler Workbench is (more than 130.000 lines of assember source code!). The tools are available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and other Unix operating systems. Further, a
The Z88 computer emulator and debugging environment is available that - OZvm - supports tracing, breakpoints and many other features to run and analyse your applications both on simulated EPROM, Flash or RAM. Finally
RomUpdate, an application EPROM & FLASH card programming utility, has been implemented on the Z88 to produce your own application cards natively.
If you have ideas, bug reports, suggestions for new applications or features of the Z88 operating system, or have an itch to develop software, dont't hesitate to join us.
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you can contact the project on https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki.
mpm
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z88card
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romupdate
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OZvm - a Z88 computer emulator and debugger tool
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Abundance of existing source code of Z88 applications
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