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Grogster

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Posted: 07:13am 23 Jul 2024
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Interesting that it lasted this long, before they FINALLY pulled the plug.

No more Z80's...
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Mixtel90

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Posted: 08:01am 23 Jul 2024
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Excellent video. :)

Me sad though. I've always been a Z80 fan. It's how I got into computing in the first place.

Zilog even did a version with a built-in BASIC interpreter in ROM at one time.
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PhenixRising
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Posted: 08:22am 23 Jul 2024
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No problem with eZ80 though, right?
 
CaptainBoing

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  Mixtel90 said  
Me sad though. I've always been a Z80 fan. It's how I got into computing in the first place.


+1

my first CPU exposure was 8080/85 in a briefcase at college so a very easy jump to the Z80 when I got my ZX81from there to here... happy days - I have always considered myself someone who has made a decent living from his hobby  

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PhenixRising
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  CaptainBoing said   I have always considered myself someone who has made a decent living from his hobby  

"Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life." - Confucius



  I use that all the time  

I ran down to the pub (from the factory) on Sunday because I wanted to watch the Hungarian GP. Guy in there lectures me on "living life" instead of working every day.

His idea of this is pub & telly.....No thanks  

Some really good ones here
 
Mixtel90

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What an awful web site. It screws up Brave, which can't scroll down it. Vivaldi works.
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Rickard5

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Posted: 03:54pm 23 Jul 2024
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  Grogster said   they FINALLY pulled the plug. No more Z80's...

Zilog only Made like 3 Billion of them. There is some guy in Malaysia making Z-80 clones in his Garage with Masks his cousin  here  in the USA stealing Jobs on an H1B Visa pulled out of the Trash! it will be OK Intel no longer makes 8008 or 8080 Chips but I can still buy BRAND NEW original 1980's Date coded Chips. Plus Intel still licenses 8080,80286,80386,80486  and support chip sets to Other Taiwan Fabs/ INDUSTRY Will Never allow the Z-80 Die, Look how long IBM has been Milking GMOS for the 701 and Cobol?
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Mixtel90

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There are several cycle correct implementations of the Z80 on FPGA too.
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al18
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Posted: 07:32pm 23 Jul 2024
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The Ti84 Plus graphics calculators are currently using the eZ80 processor, as is the Agon Light and Light 2
 
Volhout
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The eZ80 is quite impressive, 50MHz clock and 3x more efficient per cycle than the Z80, that is a 150MHz Z80.

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