Two milestone integration tests that run public-domain test ROMs
through the full 8080/Z80 chip + bus + BDOS-stub stack:
8080:
- 8080PRE.COM (1 KB preliminary test) — runs to completion, no ERROR.
- TST8080.COM (1.5 KB Microcosm 1980 CPUDIAG) — the canonical 8080
validation. Chip prints "CPU IS OPERATIONAL". This is the same
diagnostic that real Altair/IMSAI machines used to validate their
CPUs in the late 70s/early 80s. ~52s wall-clock, 2M simulated cycles.
Z80:
- ZEXDOC (8.5 KB Frank Cringle 1994 instruction exerciser, documented
flags subset of ZEXALL) — chip prints the "Z80 instruction exerciser"
banner and runs without ERROR within a 5M-cycle budget.
Test infrastructure:
- test/test_intel/roms/{8080pre,tst8080,8080exm,zexdoc}.bin — public-
domain ROMs mirrored from altairclone.com and floooh/chips-test.
- 64 KB system image builder: CP/M zero-page (JMP 0x0100 at PC=0,
JMP-to-BDOS at 0x0005), BDOS handler at 0xFE00 implementing
functions 2 (print char in E) and 9 (print string at DE until '$'),
using OUT port 0x01 to emit each char. The harness captures OUT
cycles via the WR̅-falling + IORQ̅-asserted pattern.
Lesson: BDOS at 0x0F00 collided with ZEXDOC.COM (8.5 KB extending
to 0x21A9). Moved BDOS to 0xFE00 — well above any reasonable .COM
program region. CPUDIAG worked at either address since TST8080 is
only 1.5 KB.
Tests: 94→98 passing. Total test_intel 105→109 (4 new tests).
0 failed. 11 todo (mostly 8086 corner cases + Busicom + full
ZEXDOC). Master plan doc updated marking phase F as partial.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings the Z80 from 8080-superset baseline toward ZEXDOC compliance:
- CB prefix: full 256 ops (BIT/SET/RES + RLC/RRC/RL/RR/SLA/SRA/SLL/
SRL) on r ∈ B/C/D/E/H/L/(HL)/A.
- DDCB / FDCB indexed bit ops with displacement-before-opcode order.
Sean Young's undocumented "result also stored to non-(HL) register"
semantics included.
- Undocumented X (bit 3) and Y (bit 5) flag bits on every flag-
setting instruction (set_sz / set_szp / add_hl / cpl / etc.).
- Z80-specific DAA via N flag direction (Sean Young §4.7 algorithm —
the canonical ZEXALL-passing form).
- CPI / CPD / CPIR / CPDR with X/Y from (A − (HL) − H) per
Sean Young §4.2.
- RLD / RRD 12-bit nibble rotates between A and (HL).
- 16-bit ADC HL,rr (ED 4A/5A/6A/7A) and SBC HL,rr (ED 42/52/62/72)
with full S/Z/PV/H/N/C/X/Y handling and bit-12 half-carry.
Deferred:
- MEMPTR (WZ) full update map (only the strictest ZEXALL cases need it).
- Block I/O instructions' deterministic flags (Phase F polish).
- ZEXDOC ROM integration test (Phase F).
Tests: z80 11→21 passing (+10: SET, RES, RLC A, SRL A, SRA A, BIT 7,
DAA, ADC HL BC, RLD, CPIR). Total test_intel: 64→73 passing, 0 failed.
Master plan doc updated: phase B marked done; phase C starting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Z80 chip enhancements:
- Add maskable INT̅ handling. Pin is level-triggered, active-low. The
on_int watcher tracks line state; step() services at instruction
boundaries when IFF1=1.
- IM 0/1 vector to 0x0038; IM 2 vectors via I:00 indirection (no
interrupt-controller hardware on the bus, so we approximate the
data byte as 0x00 — user code must pre-load the vector table).
- INTA cycle clears IFF1 and IFF2 per Zilog UM008003 p. 24.
- Power-on reset state: chip starts with reset_active=true so the
RESET̅ rising edge releases the chip (the watcher only fires on
edges; without an initial-true assumption, setting RESET=false
was a no-op and the chip executed instructions during the
test's pre-reset cycles).
Test infrastructure:
- bootZ80 no longer advances time after RESET deassert. Same lesson
as bootCpu in the 8080 tests — caller may need to poke RAM
contents BEFORE the chip executes.
5 it.todo tests promoted to passing:
- LDIR copies a memory block from HL to DE
- LD A, (IX+d) reads via IX with signed displacement
- EXX swaps the main register set with the shadow set
- NMI̅ falling edge pushes PC and vectors to 0x0066
- IM 1 + INT̅ vectors to 0x0038
Total test_intel: 60 passing (was 55), 0 failed, 17 todo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
David Montero