Z88 Developers' Notes

(C) Copyright Cambridge Computer Ltd. 1988

Authors:     John Harrison
             Matthew Elton

Consultants: Matthew Soar
             Trinity Concepts Ltd
             Jim Westwood
             Graham French

• Disclaimers
• Section 0 - Introduction
• Section 1 - Organization of memory
• Section 2 - Simple use of system calls
  • 2.1 The BBC BASIC assembler
  • 2.2 System calls - general points
  • 2.3 Error handling and related issues
  • 2.4 Integer arithmetic
  • 2.5 File input/output
  • 2.6 The screen driver
  • 2.7 The keyboard decoder
  • 2.8 The printer filter
  • 2.9 Standard Input/Output and the CLI
  • 2.10 Memory management
  • 2.11 The floating point package
  • 2.12 Time and date management
  • 2.13 The Serial Interface
  • 2.14 The wildcard handler
  • 2.15 DORs
  • 2.16 Filters
  • 2.17 Handling Alarms
  • 2.18 Linked lists
  • 2.19 Miscellaneous useful routines
  • 2.20 Direct use of hardware
• Section 3 - How to write an application
  • 3.1 Application data structures
  • 3.2 An example application
• Section 4 - System calls reference
  • 4.1 System calls finder
  • 4.2 System calls reference
  • 4.3 System manifests
• Appendix A - Z80 Instruction Set
• Appendix B - Z88 Character Set
• Appendix C - Miscellaneous Features
• Appendix D - Glossary of terms
• Appendix E - Hardware Connections