Zyklus-MPS

(Written by David Perbal) As I said in the previous post, the 2.8” touchscreen is too small.

(Written by David Perbal) When we started assembling our Zyklus clones, we realized how complex it would be to upgrade the hardware (based on a Z80) and the software written in assembly language.

Marcel’s buddy had some Acrylate display covers made that fit the front panel nicely.

Well, here it is, the open source release for the Zyklus clone: https://github.com/jeroenhn/zykl Thanks so much to Pete and Bill for allowing this project to go this far.

Direct’s orignal powersupply was probably something thrown together in haste.

Now that the machine has been running on a (very slightly modified) version of 1.5, I figured it would be a good time to start thinking about fixing some small bugs or other annoyances and maybe add some features.

In my quest to write a manual for Direct, I’ve been going through the code with a pair of tweezers, along with the machine trying stuff out.

On the Zyklus MPS front, there’s a lot brewing as wel.

The winter is coming, long dark evenings ahead for many a new hobby project.

Most of the old Z80 assembly code has been ported to a more modern variant (z88dk-z80asm) – thanks to David for translating quite a lot of it.