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floofloof@lemmy.ca to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family

www.hackster.io

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Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family

www.hackster.io

floofloof@lemmy.ca to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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While the long-lived Z80 continues on in Z180 and eZ80 forms, the standalone DIP-packaged variants' days are numbered.
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    Someone’s going to end up making an adapter for the new variants to plug into a DIP.

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    Does someone still make 6502s, or have they been discontinued as well?

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      depends on what form factor you need

      • qprimed@lemmy.ml
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        ok, thats just really cool. 👍

      • stoly@lemmy.world
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        Nice

      • wander1236@sh.itjust.works
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        Wow

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        deleted by creator

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      IIRC, The 6502c is still in production.

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        I’ve heard this as well.

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      The firm carrying the torch for thr 6502/65816 runs out of an office the size of a large house on a largely residential street in a suburb of Phoenix.

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    Baltazar Studios:

    • A Z80 From the Ground Up: A-Z80 is a conceptual implementation of the venerable Zilog Z80 processor targeted to synthesize and run on a modern FPGA device.
    • ZX Spectrum on FPGA using A-Z80 CPU
    • https://github.com/gdevic/A-Z80


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