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Rp Control Internals.

Some of you want to write your own OS for the computer, and aren’t afraid of 6502 assembly. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s in RP Control, internally. First, the memory map:

Memory structure:

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0x0000 Zero page
0x0100 P-stack
0x0200 R-stack
0x0300 bus output
0x0400 bus input (also Bootloader space)
0x0500 Ram (the bootloader loads the disk image here)

The MMU instruction, which is not documented in the instruction tables, takes a single byte parameter. The currently defined MMU commands:

MMU OpCode:

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0x00 Map device in Reg A to redbus window.
0x80 Get mapped device to A.

0x01 Redbus Window offset to A
0x81 Get RB window offset to A.

0x02 Enable redbus
0x82 Disable redbus

0x03 Set external memory mapped window to A.
0x83 Get memory mapped window to A.

0x04 Enable external memory mapped window.
0x84 Disable external memory mapped window.

0x05 Set BRK address to A
0x85 Get BRK address to A

0x06 Set POR address to A
0x86 Get POR address to A

0xFF Output A register to MC logfile.

The Display registers:

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0x00 Memory access row.

0x01 cursor x
0x02 cursor y
0x03 cursor mode (0: hidden, 1: solid, 2: blink)

0x04 key buffer start (16 byte buffer)
0x05 key buffer position
0x06 key value at buffer start

0x07 blit mode (1: fill, 2: invert; 3: shift)
0x08 blit x start / fill value
0x09 blit y start
0x0A blit x offset
0x0B blit y offset
0x0C blit width
0x0D blit height

0x10 -> 0x60 display memory window

IO Expander:

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0x00-0x01: Read buffer (little endian)
0x02-0x03: Output latch

Disk Drive:

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0x00-0x7F: Disk sector buffer
0x80-0x81: Sector number
0x82: Disk command:
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0: Idle/success
1: Read Disk Name
2: Write Disk Name
3: Read Disk Serial
4: Read Disk Sector
5: Write Disk Sector
0xFF: Command failure