Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Panteltje Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:55:27 GMT Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:55:27 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="392286"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (Linux-5.15.32-v7l+) Cancel-Lock: sha1:einnzKt5PV+vzzfek0ZDviU3SSI= X-Newsreader-location: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (c) 'LIGHTSPEED' off line news reader for the Linux platform NewsFleX homepage: http://www.panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/ and ftp download ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/news/readers/ X-User-ID: eJwVx8kBwCAIBMCWuJFyUNn+SzD5zbgGx0kLD3M4mJJO62Sb/NwumVpfVu6jY3etIsyNap99IQo0jIJNCvoAOkAVMQ== Bytes: 3007 Lines: 44 On a sunny day (23 Apr 2024 13:09:43 GMT) it happened "Peter Heitzer" wrote in : >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 > Wow! did not know about that! I downloaded the zip file :-)