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From: "Don" <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:51:31 -0000 (UTC)
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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.