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They serve a different purpose. The goal of the ACIA buffer is to ensure that we don't miss an input. The goal of the shell buffer is to wait until the user presses return. The ACIA buffer has been moved to shell and replaced with a circular buffer, a more appropriate data structure for this kind of purpose. Also, introduce `aciaGetC`. |
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Parts
Bits and pieces of code that you can assemble to build an OS for your machine.
These parts are made to be glued together in a single main.asm file you write
yourself.
As of now, the z80 assembler code is written to be assembled with scas, but this is going to change in the future as a new hosted assembler is written.
Defines
Each part can have its own constants, but some constant are made to be defined externally. We already have some of those external definitions in platform includes, but we can have more defines than this.
Each part has a "DEFINES" section listing the constant it expects to be defined. Make sure that you have these constants defined before you include the file.
Variable management
Each part can define variables. These variables are defined as addresses in
RAM. We know where RAM start from the RAMSTART constant in platform includes,
but because those parts are made to be glued together in no pre-defined order,
we need a system to align variables from different modules in RAM.
This is why each part that has variable expect a <PARTNAME>_RAMSTART
constant to be defined and, in turn, defines a <PARTNAME>_RAMEND constant to
carry to the following part.
Thus, code that glue parts together coould look like:
MOD1_RAMSTART .equ RAMSTART
#include "mod1.asm"
MOD2_RAMSTART .equ MOD1_RAMEND
#include "mod2.asm"