But not a change of heart.
As I am working on The Emulator and thinking back to my initial design for the Basic Register Module, I have come to a realization.
I do not want to solder hundreds of transistors, resistors and diodes... At least not initially.
So... With some of my thoughts going into the direction of writing an assembler for the DWMC-16, and communicating them, someone told me I should maybe write an emulator.
And yes... I decided that I need to write an emulator. And I have decided on a low level microcode and bus based emulator, written in Python.
With my last post being about designing my first Register, and getting a bit deeper into actual hardware, I was missing a few things to go on with my design, namely the Control Signals that I'd need to do work with everything. That meant that, finally, I had to sit down and draw a Block Diagram... It is a relatively simple one that I drew with Draw.io.
Just in case anyone is interested in my development of the DWMC-16 minicomputer, i have decided to push it all into a GitLab repository for ease of downloading.
With me designing the first Basic Register Module, I've come to realise that they can't be used everywhere where I use registers. The Basic Register Module is meant to be used for the basic use registers for the DWMC-16, R00 to R07, as well as the ZH and ZL registers, and I designed it first, because I think it was relatively straightforward to design in general.
