Josh's Altair/IMSAI Replacement (JAIR) is a single board computer
(SBC) for the S100 bus. I created this device to assist a friend
with getting IMP and CBBS working on his JAIR. Without having a
JAIR myself, AltairZ80 to the rescue!
The following devices are added:
JAIR - The main JAIR board I/O and ROM
JAIRS0 - Serial Port 0 (COM1)
JAIRS1 - Serial Port 1 (COM2)
JAIRP - Parallel Port
This was a bit challenging because the JAIR uses an on-board SD
card with FAT file system to hold its BIOS and CP/M disk images.
The ATTACH command is used to mount SD card images to the
simulator. The simulator emulates the SD card interface for
read/writing SD card sectors. These images are easily mounted on
a Mac making moving files around easy. I do not know about Windows.
These same images can be written to an SD card and used with real
JAIR hardware, which may be useful for JAIR owners.
The serial and parallel ports fully support TMXR. Host serial ports
and sockets may be attached to these devices.
I am working on a GitHub repository containing an SD card image and
init script that will boot CP/M 2.2 on the JAIR simulator.
Is this device one that should be added to AltairZ80?
- Builds x86 and x64 regular snapshots.
x64: Mon Wed Fri
x86: Tue Thu Sat
ARM: Mon Thu Sun (ARM not enabled)
- Builds x64 on closed pull request, Release
- Manual trigger allows selection of ref, platform,
architecture, config, disposition
- Releases and daily snapshots are deployed automagically
- VS Project 2022 files updated for ARM, but not setup for
cross-builds (BuildROMs) or tested on ARM (no hardware)
- Fix makefile tests for cygwin
