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Welcome to the MicroBeast wiki!

This Wiki is intended to be the primary source of technical information about the MicroBeast Z80 computer.

BIOS Update 1.6

The release candidate for BIOS version 1.6 is now available here. Use with extreme caution. Click here for Release notes

Build Guide

Just got the kit? Check out the build guide for tips.

User Manual

The user manual will help you getting started with MicroBeast.

Hardware

• IO Decoding
• Memory System
• Keyboard
• Serial comms
• GPIO
• I2C
• RTC
• Audio

Development Tools

Serial comms are provided over USB-C. Windows users are recommended to use TeraTerm - available here: https://ttssh2.osdn.jp/index.html.en

To assemble Z80 code I use Tasm3.2 - available here: https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW/tree/master/Tools/tasm32

Edit fonts for 14 segment LED displays online with the MicroBeast font editor: https://feertech.com/microbeast/font/