Show 047: The Z80 Microprocessor

  This witty comment intentionally left blank.Welcome to Show 047!  This week's Topic: The Z80 Microprocessor! Topics and links discussed in the podcast... Apple history abounds, courtesy of The Apple Computer History Weblog, and the Apple II History site!Obsolete Technology?  We love it!  Check out the Obsolete Technology Website at oldcomputers.net.Computer Collector Newsletter is now Technology Rewind.  Congratulations on the new site!How many computers used the Z80?  Well, at least more than 200, and this site has them listed...Yes, Zilog still makes Z80s!  Excellent!Wikipedia's Z80 page has good stuff.The Z80 Official Support Page will give you years of Z80 reading pleasure.MyZ80 will give you the Z80 experience on a modern day PC.  It is one of many Z80 / CP/M emulator solutions out there.Check out the WinApe Amstrad emulator for a Z80 experience in a mainstream home retrocomputer emulation.If all of this is not enough for you, and you want a Z80 FPGA core (for free!), have at look at the T80 page on the Opencores.org site. Be sure to send any comments, questions or feedback to [email protected]. For online discussions on Retrobits Podcast topics, check out the Retrobits Podcast forum on the PETSCII Forums page! Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan. Thanks for listening! - Earl