Altair 8800 with FabGL (ESP32) - CP/M Text Games

#ESP32 #Arduino #IoT #VGA

Demo using FabGL Library (VGA Controller, PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Controller, Graphics Library, Sound Engine, Game Engine and ANSI/VT Terminal for the ESP32)

ESP32 generates VGA signals and read PS/2 keyboard, other than emulating an Altair 8800 (with i8080 or Zilog Z80 CPU), with 64K RAM, 88-DISK (A,B r/o and C,B r/w using internal flash) and SIO. Lot of software is embedded (turbo pascal, wordstar, dbase, bbc basic, forth, lisp, games...).

[RoyAntaw]

Your ESP32 FabGL libraries and this Altair 8080 emulation is a brilliant piece of work.Thank you.

[tomwilson]

This is great! I bought one of these boards to use with my Altair... now having an external computer seems like overkill....

Mi sto appassionando a questo computer sempre più, sto considerando l’idea di acquistare la versione mini

[Limaa]

isn´t a bare metal DOS or BASIC or CPM/GAMES with sound and sd card writing? I mean a dedicate, not that ESP32 salad menu

[WacKEDmaN]

needs more 8bit emus now!.. ..needs amstrad CPC!
BTW..loving FabGL..its a very nice lib and fun to play with :)

[Limaa]

can it run sound save and write in sd?

[Centar]

Can the serial port on the FabGL be accessed from the Altair 8800 software? ie. Can you connect to a modem?

[imranaalam]

i wish you could take us through the code. so, that we can be better programmer too.