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Date   : Sun, 01 Nov 1992 18:13:27 EST
From   : wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: MYZ80 ver 1.03

The author has given me permission to distribute this via
anonymous FTP from hopf.math.purdue.edu (128.210.3.19). Other
sites are welcome to pick it up and distribute it also.
It's in the pub/cpm directory.
This is a full demonstration version, to be used only
for non-profit purposes.

The full version with more documentation is available as
shareware from the author and should be obtained if used for
education, software development or other commercial activity.
Here's the .DOC file:




             MicroFast Z80 Emulation Engine code,
                         MYZ80 API,
     and The MYZ80 Emulator Package Versions 1.xx are each:
              Copyright 1991,1992 Simeon Cran.





                            M Y Z 8 0
                            ========

                         by Simeon Cran.

Welcome to MYZ80!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MYZ80 is a Z80/64180 emulator package. It was written to allow you 
to finally get rid of those old Z80 computers which have done so 
many fine years of service. The new 80386 machines with the fast 
hard drives and the snazzy OS/2 operating systems are such a 
delight... but for many, the Z80 machines still have to be fired 
up from to time in order to develop code for CP/M and the Z80 
chip. Well, not any more, thanks to MYZ80.

Other emulators on the market are less than satisfactory 
solutions. Of the small number which can actually run without 
causing system errors under the later versions of DOS, apparently 
none are capable of running real CP/M. Instead they use an 
emulated version of CP/M which is only as accurate as the 
developers have bothered to make it.

None can run CP/M 3.0, and none can run ZCPR (which is such a 
useful Z80 developer's environment). Add to that their less than 
perfect Z80 emulation and slow overall performance, and until 
MYZ80, the 'real' Z80 machines were destined to remain in the 
office.

MYZ80 provides the solution being conceived, born and nurtured to 
the point where it is now the most useful Z80 emulator package 
ever!


MYZ80 features.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MYZ80 emulates the instruction set of the 8080, Z80 and Z180/64180 
CPU chips. It does this with the "MicroFast Z80 Emulation Engine" 
which is a very highly tuned piece of code designed to be as fast 
and as accurate as technically possible on 80286, 80386 and 80486 
CPUs.

MYZ80 provides an interface (the MYZ80 API) to the host computer 
which allows real Z80 BDOSes to run in the MYZ80 environment. This 
interface provides disk and character I/O as well as two banks of 
64k RAM (with common area) and a large RAM disk. These unique 
features allow MYZ80 to run 'real' CP/M 2.2, CP/M 3.0, Z-System 
and ZPM3.

MYZ80 is designed for the latest multitasking operating systems 
and makes Z80 programs 'host friendly'. MYZ80 will share time very 
fairly with the host. Even multiple instances of MYZ80 are 
supported.

MYZ80 can take advantage of the latest computer hardware for 
increased performance. The Microfast Z80 Emulation Engine operates 
in either 16 (80286) or 32 (80386/80486) bit mode depending on the 
capabilities of the host computer.

MYZ80 runs beautifully on IBM AT compatible (or better) computers 
under DOS 3.3 compatible (or later) operating systems. This 
includes running under OS/2 2.0, Desqview, and Windows 3.x.


Starting MYZ80.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MYZ80 is started from the DOS command line by simply typing the 
name of its executable (CPM). However, advanced users may wish to 
include optional arguments on the command line.

The first argument is the name of a boot file to be used instead 
of the default (BOOT.CPM), and following arguments are saved by 
MYZ80 and may be retrieved from within the MYZ80 environment.

MYZ80 always looks for its support files in the directory it 
resides in. Therefore, you may start MYZ80 from any directory or 
disk, and it will always find its support files (as long as they 
are in the same directory as CPM.EXE).

MYZ80 may be run from a floppy disk (although a hard disk is 
recommended). To do so, put CPM.EXE and the support files onto the 
floppy disk, and start the program.


Leaving MYZ80.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are two ways to exit from the MYZ80 environment. You may 
select the 'Abort and exit' choice from the pause box menu, or you 
may run the MYZ80 utility QUIT.COM. The latter method also allows 
you to specify an error level to return to DOS with (for use in 
batch files).


Further information.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Some explanations of the terms used above and further information 
will be displayed to you when you start MYZ80 for the first time. 
Legal information is provided in the file READ.1ST which was 
supplied with this package. All the MYZ80 utilities have online 
help. Other support files for MYZ80 should be provided in the 
future and will probably be available from the place where you 
found this package.


The version of MYZ80 that you have now may not be perfect, but it 
is pretty close! It has been released so that as many people as 
possible can join the MYZ80 revolution, and keep CP/M and Z80 
alive for years to come. Please enjoy it.



Simeon Cran.




     *************************************************************
     Acknowledgments:
     Due to all the great help,  I feel  compelled to  acknowledge 
     the support given by a number of people in the "Z" community. 
     Especially Bruce Dudley (Sysop of Z-Node 62 in Perth, Western 
     Australia), and the handful of crash testers in Australia and 
     around  the  world.  And  to  all  those  people   who  truly 
     appreciate  the  elegance  of   the  art   of  machine   code 
     optimization, please enjoy "MYZ80 by Simeon Cran."
     *************************************************************



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