Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Peter Heitzer" Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production Date: 23 Apr 2024 13:09:43 GMT Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net uzuQ0UxZTmZF3KMahH2wwgKxwf4wTspoaxlfo5PP7n8DyKvtynqfocO3Oi X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:4IJFd796txlX3bnQRNKLxgOA/Ls= sha256:1MRedg6siafnYVTYF1NsOhQq90zIDRpoX99kEKsQSjY= User-Agent: tin/2.4.3-20181224 ("Glen Mhor") (UNIX) (Linux/4.19.0-26-amd64 (x86_64)) Bytes: 2397 Jan Panteltje wrote: >On a sunny day (Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:23:32 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Dan Purgert > wrote in : >>On 2024-04-23, Jan Panteltje wrote: >>> After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 >>> microprocessor chip Z80 powered game consoles, ZX Spectrum, Pac-Man, >>> and a 1970s PC standard based on CP/M. >> >>Yep, just got the EOL notice from Digikey yesterday. Shame... >Well, I will get over it > https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/index.html >Wrote a disassembler for it once >and a CP/M clone when I had no CP/M only a Sinclair ZX80, later a ZX81 .. > https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/index.html >Build a lot of hardware for my Z80 system: > https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/system14/diagrams/index.html >Dumped it all years ago. >People were still using the disassembler a few years ago it seems. >Very nice processor. >I think I had a Z80 simulator on some old Linux PC once? >But the world keeps changing... >Not always for the better, more bloat every day.. >If you see Chromium on Raspbery Pi 4 8 GB taking sometimes minutes >to display a simple text based website... >cache... >You could probably use the FPGA Z80 version :-) > https://opencores.org/projects/a-z80 The most difficult part is to put all into a 40 pin 300 mil package as a drop in replacement. If all I wanted was a machinery to run Z80 software my choice wuild be a RP2040 board. https://github.com/djbottrill/rp2040_z80_emulator -- Dipl.-Inform(FH) Peter Heitzer, peter.heitzer@rz.uni-regensburg.de