Occasionally after playing a game or running a program that uses color in CP/M, my terminal isn’t reset and isn’t using my default colors. Even worse is when it leaves the terminal with dark text on a black background! CP/M has the CLS command, but it does not reset the default colors, so I decided to write a quick assembly program to reset the terminal using ANSI Escape Sequences.

The HI-TECH C is a nearly ANSI C compliant compiler that runs on Z80 based CP/M machines. Version 3.09 was last released in March 1989 but the company has since made it freely available for both commercial and non-commercial use. Tony Nicholson has picked up development of the compiler and has released 17 patched versions of HI-TECH C on GitHub at agn453/HI-TECH-Z0-C. You can download the latest binary distrubtion from htc-bin.lbr. A Z280 version is also available, z280bin.lbr. Each of these are uncompressed LBR files, so you should be able to copy them to a disk and extract them using...

I am reading Programming the Z80 by Rodnay Zaks to refresh my knowledge of Z80 assembly. I usually develop and compile the code on my laptop, but this time I wanted to experience writing and testing the code on my RC2014 computer running CP/M. The assembler that ships with CP/M uses 8080 instructions, so instead I am using Z80ASM by SLR Systems. I edit the files using ZDE 1.6. The book provides sample code like this for 8-bit addition,