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End of the Z80

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:00 am
by beamrider

Re: End of the Z80

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:37 am
by MrSterlingBS
I have an TI-84 Plus here on my desk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-84_Plus_series

The Z80 is alive!


:mrgreen:

Re: End of the Z80

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:09 am
by wimoos
Hi,

I have a TI-83 Plus, never figured it also has a Z80 aboard. There are instructions and tools (through WikiPedia) on programming assembly on this machine. Have to look into that sometime.

Regards

Re: End of the Z80

Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 4:47 pm
by pixel
I used to scribble 6502 code, and even did an assembler whose name I stole from a magazine... a friend did the example 6502 code for it. I was young... It took decades (oh shit is this a recurring theme?) until I finally got to write a game for the VIC, banging my head on the desk till I found out that CLI and SEI have reversed function.

I did a "bit" of Z80 assembly on the Amstrad CPC but no-one else had one at school (no Internet back then and with bringing a modem home one would've lost her popularity within a heartbeat). I found some horizontal soft scrolling trick that was "discovered" by others years later (just played around with the CRTC registers). There was no documentation to have had. I knew the Z80 opcodes by heart and cracked games reading hexdump printouts.

But there was never that magic the 6502 has.