I’ve been intrigued by SymbOS for a while, and being able to play with it was the main reason I wanted to try and port the CPCTrex core to a more current FPGA platform at some point (a task that will be tackled sometime between “one of these days” and “the heat death of the universe”, mainly because of the need for some kind of CompactFlash-to-SD bridge component.) However, SymbOS runs on MSX as well (and could in theory be ported to anything Z80-based provided it has enough RAM), so now I have the OneChipMSX core at my fingertips, I can finally give SymbOS a whirl.
There was just one thing missing – a mouse!