Timeline for Did Microsoft BASIC ever use Z80 only instructions?
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| Apr 20, 2018 at 19:25 | comment | added | Anonymous | In MSX2 this code fragment is used to transfer data for RAM disk (using LDIR), in MSX1 machine this space, while having some useful code, is never executed (thus space is reused in MSX2 for other purpose). | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 13:40 | comment | added | supercat | Curious LDIR would only get used once. I would have expected that it would be useful in at least three places (copy line up, copy line down, and copy string). For which of those was it used? | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 12:00 | history | edited | Anonymous | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1552 characters in body |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 11:21 | comment | added | PeterI | Makes sense given how much was added to the MSX basic. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 11:16 | vote | accept | PeterI | ||
| Apr 18, 2018 at 18:19 | comment | added | Tommy | Based on a quick search, it's possible that the only definitely-Z80 version of Microsoft BASIC other than that for the MSX and its very-close Spectravideo predecessor was for the TRS-80. So this answer is almost an exhaustive search. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 18:04 | history | answered | Anonymous | CC BY-SA 3.0 |