Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production

Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:

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.

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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

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Dipl.-Inform(FH) Peter Heitzer, peter.heitzer@rz.uni-regensburg.de