Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Don" Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:51:31 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: <20240423b@crcomp.net> References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:51:31 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7affaed09013acbf009823dcfab7df14"; logging-data="1778322"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19WTYXHrdswNl7/PmV2UDZ5" Cancel-Lock: sha1:pqqxj7ReDTukfBZi+nH29uRsp7A= Bytes: 2719 Peter Heitzer wrote: > Jan Panteltje wrote: >> Dan Purgert wrote: >>> 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 Thank you both for your contributions. Although STM is somewhat better than BCM from my own perspective, both are appreciated by me. Danke, -- Don, KB7RPU, https://www.qsl.net/kb7rpu There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night.