Or do you prefer Green?

This is a direct dump from ROM to the screen. Most of the image is the TRS-80 BASIC ROMs.

Then there are the characters. The characters sit in 8x16 memory cells so not all of them fit on the screen because they need to go into a 6x12 cell for on-screen.

The bright area after the characters is blank ROM (FLASH).

The BASIC ROMs are occupying 12kB and after that the character ROM occupies 4kB so they fit neatly together into a 16kB block.

There is some ghosting because of timing issues. The VHDL is just something quick and dirty so that I can see roughly what it will look like. All the issues will be fixed when I properly time out (synchronise) the code.

So tomorrow I will completely re-write the VHDL. At the moment it doesn't even have a shift register. It is doing a full 128 ROM reads per character. ie reading each byte 8 times to put out a single dot each time.

Some curious things - the 70nS FLASH works fine even down to 40nS access times but gives up the ghost at 20nS (not surprisingly). The 25nS SRAM works fine at 20nS. I couldn't test it any faster because the source clock is 50MHz.

Oh yes, one other thing. The descenders ... well ... descend! Have a look.