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A 64KB memory expansion by MHT Ingenieros.

A Spanish manufactured memory expansion intended for the Spanish market.

It expanded BASIC with various RSX commands (software in ROM) to allow access to the additional banks. Features: peek and poke, Screen flipping, Printer buffer, random access to files.

The price was: 13.900 pts.

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Pictures

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  Unit front

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  Unit back

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  PCB top

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  PCB bottom

Technical

• Uses port &F8F8 to latch data (read/write)
• Uses memory address to define where in 64KB ram to read/write.
• NOT Dk'Tronics compatible.
• More like a ram disc

to write:

LD BC,&F8F8 ;; ram data access
LD A,&34    ;; value to write
LD DE,&4000 ;; where in extra ram to read (0-&ffff)
DI
OUT (C),A   ;; latch data for ram
LD A,(DE)   ;; perform write into ram
EI

to read:

LD BC,&F8F8
ld de,&4000
di
in a,(c) 
ld a,(de) ;; read value from extra ram
ei

each access to the I/O port must be followed by a memory read operation. ROM uses single byte reads such as LD A,(DE)

• ROM has commands:

|SCREENCOPY,<ram page>,1

copy screen at &c000 to ram page.

numbers can't be 0 or greater than or equal to 6.

PBUFF NBUFF PEEK POKE SCREENSWAP BSAVE BLOAD CSAVE CLOAD OPEN GET CLOSE PUT MKILL MCAT MRENAME FREDSK RAMDSK CC

ROM

• MHT Ingenieros ANTA 64K.3 ROM (zipped .ROM file)