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- Rare find https://www.zosya.net/file/TTT_in_detail.pdf - Russian, probably can be translated easily, long story on how one of the games for ZX was madeby RomanPushkin
- The Z80 was my "first" microprocessor, in an odd way. I've never touched one.
It was the early 80s, and my mom was getting Byte Magazine, which I devoured. I had taken a high school programming class in BASIC, and was interested in electronics. Radio Shack had a shelf of books, and I was going through them one by one as I could afford them. They had William Barden's book on the Z80, published by Howard Sams, because the TRS-80 used it.
That book was so clearly and methodically written, that a high school kid could understand it. Later on I added some scraps of inline assembler here and there in programs, but eventually got into microcontrollers, which I continue to play with.
I admit that my mental model of microcontrollers is still based on those 8 bit machines, and I owe a debt to the Z80.
by analog31 - My first ambitious project was a Z80 assembler. The Z8000 (much later) was distinguished by being the last random-logic (not microcoded) microprocessor of it's day.by JoeAltmaier
- Interesting interview with Frederico Faggin on of the two designers of the z80 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=28JtL1WVjMwby christkv
- Ironically (and sadly) the Z80 was discontinued not very long after this piece was published.
- > Then, as a young engineer, I worked in a large mainframe computer system based on Z80.
This sentence threw me a little bit. Which mainframes were based on the Z80? I'd love to know more about that.
by Lio - Due to its simplicity it's a fun little processor to program. Hacking on some assembly on a ZX spectrum emulator is a nice way to stay sane in this high abstraction LLM age.by meekins
- Tom Jennings, the creator of fidenet, is producing a nice modern Z80 computer[0]by getfacl