zany80 / zany80

Zany80 fantasy computer system

Zany80

Note: this repo is dead, see https://sr.ht/~pixelherodev/Zany80 instead

Zany80 is an IDE to make working with various pieces of hardware easier, tightly integrating various emulators with debuggers and an intelligent code editor. It also provides tools to ease developments of various types of software (port monitors, sprite editors, etc).

As of version 0.2, Zany80 also includes support for a second system based on the LIMN architecture, and a fully function toolchain for the associated DragonFruit language.

There was once a webapp, compiled to emscripten. I am unwilling to deal with the maintainance burden of supporting webapp bullshit, so unless someone else does it, it will not happen.

Licensing note: some utility files have been borrowed from various open-source projects. Their code is organized by source in lib/, and all have been included in accordance with their respective licenses. A single LICENSE file should be available in each folder (if it's missing, please file a ticket).

Why use XML as a data format?

Honestly, XML was chosen mostly because I hadn't had any experience with it when I made the decision. At this point, I don't really care enough to change it. Patches are welcome, so long as performance is within the same order of magnitude and the new format (and its implementation) are simpler than the current one (not that that's hard). Also, it must be in C99, with no dependency on C++ (or any other language, for that matter).

zany80's Issues

After assembling a ROM with the builtin tools it is incompatible

I have a file containing only the halt instruction. It assembles just fine but once there is an attempt to run it it says that it is an incompatible ROM. To assemble I am using assemble file.asm -o file.rom as previously told would work in Discord.

Reading ROM name from file system is inconsistent

If a cart is loaded, then executed 10 times, approximately 1/2 the time the OS reports "disk name not found," while the other half it is correctly displayed.

Command history

TODO: add the ability to use the arrow keys to navigate prior commands.

`compile` fails

The libc include path is in Program Files (x86), so it has a space. Needs to be quoted.

Zany80 crashes after using the "reset" command in the terminal

Windows shortcut points to bin/zany80.exe instead of zany80.exe

The new font has issues with terminal

The terminal with the new font appears to have put symbols in place of random characters. Only the letter keys seem to work aside from a few other symbols (like the curly braces) but the functional nonletter keys give the wrong input to the terminal.

Editor freezes when focus is lost

If the editor has focus in the Emscripten build and you switch away from the browser and back, then the editor freezes, though the rest of the Zany80 ecosystem is fine.

Only confirmed in Chrome right now.

Zany's window stretches the display

Zany's display window has an inconsistent aspect ratio and can the window can be stretched in sizes where the display is stretched out in one direction more than others. The window also begins too small for the font to properly be rendered, making resizing necessary. This is especially a problem in many tiled window managers where you are almost guaranteed a stretched display.

No file autocompletion on Windows

`compile`, `assemble`, and `link` commands error out on Windows

All three commands fail with just the "Error!" message. This has been confirmed to be a result of attempting to save the error logs in the application folder. Fix should be out very soon

Add autocomplete when the user pressed the tab key.

It would be nice to autocomplete both commands and the cart names.

Space causes problems after selecting file

Unable to `cd` to paths containing spaces

CD command nonfunctional in windows release

The CD command does absolutely nothing.