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VibeDroneBeeWolf400 - Graham72 - 15-09-2026
Over weeks of rapid, AI-assisted cross-model orchestration, this web-based Microbee emulator has leaped from the PC85 version with BASIC 6.35 using a CP/M shim to Build 6.18. By delegating specific architectural layers to Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude, the development successfully improved on the original BASIC project into an all singing all dancing hybrid.
1. The PC85 Multi-ROM Engine (The original Core Emulation)
This side of the emulator provides a faithful recreation of the original 1985 Microbee PC85 ROM hardware.
2. The Premium CF VibedroneBeeWolf 400
The dedicated fork explicitly built to replicate the physical Premium CompactFlash (CF) modification environment.
Originally just BASIC 6.35 this is now the full CP/M emulation. VibeDroneBeeWolf replicates the physical 8-bit IDE/CF sector layout inside the browser. It maps compact flash drive image files (.hdd-304-4-32) to an 8K CF boot ROM, allowing a seamless virtual cold-boot straight into the CP/M filesystem with 4 5K drives A:thru D: and access to any .dsk file on drive E:
A great shout out to all of yesteryear who developed the hardware / software and later compact flash drive modifications. 1981 to ?2015. Now resurrected as a web browser interface under 300k! Its hard to 'thank' AI but I told them the ROM had to ROM and boot.sys had to sys and they spat out build after build - OVER 600. A complete scaffolded system proved useless 4 days or so ago as to complex to run CP/M so it got torn up and I started again. I am SO sick of testing builds and typing 'no text on screen', 'no drive enumeration', 'only one drive available', 'PCG characters are a mess', 'floppy is totally corrupted', 'BASIC is frozen at start','Real Time Clock still says 1987'. But I got there.
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RE: VibeDroneBeeWolf400 - fathertedcrilly - 16-09-2026
Great progress
Though perhaps you should just call it BeeWolf
It might be worth getting the agent to run over the code and comment on design decisions
Trying to compile technical notes on system behaviour from multiple sources is painful
The aspect ratio on the last screen shot looks a bit squashed
Is that a pasting artefact ?
Thanks
Tony