Acknowledgements, Credits, and References

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The Multicart Project has been a journey of discovery. Thankfully the Internet is just full of information on Electronics Basics, TTL Logic, Z80 Architecture, SC-3000 Architecture etc. There are some of the resources that helped us directly or indirectly along the way.

The SC-3000 Survivors Team

Thanks for putting up with the long development emails, guys :)

If you haven't already, then check out the SC-3000 Survivors Website.

The SMS Power Team

I just want to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported SMS Power over the years and made it the place it is today.

In particular I'd like to mention the following SMSPower resources which were critical at various times during the build:

• Charles MacDonald's excellent SC-3000 Hardware notes
• Maxim's assembler tutorial, aPLib compression library, and commented SF-7000 IPL source were *very* handy when writing the multicart boot menu. I actually used the SF-7000 IPL as my start point as it already had a text mode display and keyboard matrix parser built in.
• MikeG for the awesome SMS Reader tutorial
  

  That provided crucial insight early in the process as I was figuring out just how the hell this sparky stuff works

• Bock - the tireless Ringmaster

Books, Magazines etc.

• Mike Hadrup and the Sega Computer Magazines from 1986 to 1988
  Mike was a teenager when was the Editor of the final Sega Computer Magazines, and he gave a lot of relevant background information about the SC-3000 hardware based on his personal experience and summarized from datasheets.
• Brian Brown's Programming the SC-3000 (1984)
• Some 1980s electronics project magazine to build a generic I/O controller for the Amstrad CPC based on an 8255 PPI

Miscellaneous Links

• Z80 opcodes and instructions cheat sheet (http://www.z80.info/z80sean.txt)
• Z80 instruction set - more detail (http://z80-heaven.wikidot.com/instructions-set)
• MESS Debugger Help (http://mess.redump.net/debugger)
• http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/How_EPROMS_Work
• http://www.arlabs.com/help.htm
• http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/mar97/basics.html
• http://womblesretrorepairshack.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
• http://cgfm2.emuviews.com/
• http://msx.jannone.org/conv/
• http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/jun97/basics.html
• http://tacashi.tripod.com/elctrncs/pcbworks/pcbworks.htm
• http://www.expresspcb.com
• http://www.futurlec.com
• http://lateblt.tripod.com/z80proj2.htm
• http://lateblt.tripod.com/index.htm
• http://lateblt.tripod.com/z80proj1.htm
• http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/showthread.php?t=2517
• http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_4/chpt_3/7.html
• http://www.mattkrass.com/?page_id=763
• http://www.asic-world.com/digital/logic1.html
• http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/74series.htm
• http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/ic.htm
• http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_4/chpt_7/5.html
• http://www.sleepingelephant.com/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?p=15700&sid=b3c9d129e964407454f915b241241758
• link to TMS9929A pdf
• links to EPROM and TTL datasheets