FPGABee v3.0

FPGABee

The Microbee is an Australian made home computer that was popular in the 1980's. FPGABee replicates the digital circuitry of a Microbee and can run original Microbee software.

FPGABee

What's New in FPGABee 3

  • Ported to Papilio Duo with Classic Computing Shield
  • Support for SDHC cards
  • PCU firmware completely re-written in C
  • PCU support for sound on/off
  • PCU support for tape monitor on/off
  • PCU file manager (copy, rename, delete files on the SD card)
  • Tape playback and record to audio (.sba) files
  • Tape playback of .tap files via audio render
  • PCU now runs at 27Mhz
  • New NFFS file system for SD card
  • Cleaner non-domain crossing clock model (based on 108Mhz master clock)
  • New tapetool2 utility for managing tap, wav and sba files
  • Lots of bug fixes
  • WD1002 floppy disk support now works
  • Disk image sizes are checked before mount
  • New SD card arbiter allows PCU, tape and disk controller safe shared access to SD card
  • Improved soft reset
  • Now uses Z-80 NMI for keyboard, PCU disk complete and tape complete notifications
  • Lots of code clean up and improvements