Ships the full Galaksija (1983 Z80 home computer) as a runnable Retro
gallery example, plus the pieces needed to run a multi-chip bus live in the
browser.
Gallery example (examples-retro-intel.ts, id 'galaksija-z80-computer'):
Z80 + galaksija-rom (public-domain ROM A+B) + ram-64k + inverter (A13
decode) + galaksija-display + a power-on reset chip, wired chip-to-chip
over the bus (76 wires), no board. Click Resume and it boots the real ROM
to the "READY" prompt on the green display. Chip wasm is embedded
(wasmBase64) so it runs without a backend compile.
- ChipRuntime.tickTimers gains a wall-clock budget (CustomChipPart passes
6 ms): a faithful-but-slow event-driven bus can't run a real-time CPU in
one animation frame, so without a cap a Z80 fetching over the settle
kernel froze the tab. With the budget the sim advances slower than real
time (boots over a few seconds) and the UI stays responsive; fast
single-chip examples finish under budget and are unaffected.
- galaksija-display: blits its framebuffer on a ~30 fps timer instead of on
every character write, so a clear-screen burst doesn't flood the canvas.
- reset-gen: power-on reset (pulses RESET high, ties WAIT/BUSREQ/INT/NMI
high) so the machine boots on Resume without a manual reset.
- chipbus flag now defaults ON (override with ?chipbus=off): chip-to-chip
buses are a core capability; single-chip and board nets never take this
path, so the only thing enabled is multi-chip buses, previously broken.
Verified live in the browser: the example boots and renders "@'READY" with
the ">_" prompt, responsive. Full suite 2084 pass (5 pre-existing,
unrelated env failures).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Galaksija stores ASCII codes in its 0x2800 video RAM (verified by snooping
the boot: it writes "@'READY" + ">_" prompt). The original CHRGEN ROM uses
a hardware-specific addressing that does not map char-code*8 to a glyph, so
rendering through it produced garbled output. Render the ASCII codes with
the public-domain IBM/VGA 8x8 font (font8x8 by Daniel Hepper / Marcel
Sondaar) instead -- legible green-on-black phosphor text. The boot screen
now reads "@'READY" with the ">_" input prompt, exactly like a real
Galaksija. Tests updated to check the bright-green channel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
galaksija-display.c: a 32x16 text video chip that renders the Galaksija
video RAM. It is a passive bus snoop -- watches WR + address + data, and on
a write into the 0x2800 video region stores the character and renders that
cell into a 256x128 framebuffer using the public-domain CHRGEN font (code*8,
bit 0 = lit). It never drives the bus. The host blits the framebuffer to the
chip canvas (vx_framebuffer_init / vx_buffer_write).
Two tests:
- chipbus-galaksija-display: snoop+render smoke test (a write of 'R' to
0x2802 lights its cell; unwritten cells stay blank).
- chipbus-galaksija-computer: the COMPLETE machine over the chip-to-chip bus
(Z80 + galaksija-rom + ram-64k + inverter decode + galaksija-display) boots
the public-domain ROM and renders the monitor's "READY" prompt on screen.
40 chipbus tests across 10 files pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
David Montero Crespo