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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:31:42 GMT
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On a sunny day (Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:23:32 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Dan Purgert
<dan@djph.net> wrote in <slrnv2f6hk.nch.dan@djph.net>:

>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