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Microcomputers for Homebrew Projects?
tengwar asks: "Way back when I was at university, I did a course on microcomputers which went into enough detail to design, build and program a Z80-based system - more or less state of the art at the time. Now that my lecture notes are firmly embedded in the Carboniferous layer, I'd like to have a go at doing this with a more modern chip, and I wondered what's available. I'm not brilliant at electronics, and I liked the way the Z80 peripheral chips integrated easily with the CPU. Obviously I'm not looking to just slot together the latest PC motherboard with the latest Pentium, but I'd need to go for something where the board design won't get too complicated, which probably rules out processors with full 32-bit external interfaces on space grounds. I'm not really concerned about performance, but it would be nice to be able to port a JRE to it rather than working entirely in assembler. Any thoughts on suitable starting points?" -
The Lights Keep on Blinken
cavac writes "At the 19th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin/Germany developers showed their newest developments for the closed-down Blinkenlights-Project. One of the projects was the Blinkenlights Fileserver Project. Members of this team developed a protocol and some tools similar to ftp, which you can use to share Blinkenlights-Movies. Today, a first Beta-Version was released. You might want to check it out. (It also includes the famous Telnet-Blinkenlights-Player). We are still searching people willing to help us developing this software even more or to work with us on "Phase II": Implementing Soft- and Hardware for a Hardware-Based Blinkenlights Player. This will most likely based on one of Zilog's new Development Kits - the "Z8 Encore!"." -
The Lights Keep on Blinken
cavac writes "At the 19th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin/Germany developers showed their newest developments for the closed-down Blinkenlights-Project. One of the projects was the Blinkenlights Fileserver Project. Members of this team developed a protocol and some tools similar to ftp, which you can use to share Blinkenlights-Movies. Today, a first Beta-Version was released. You might want to check it out. (It also includes the famous Telnet-Blinkenlights-Player). We are still searching people willing to help us developing this software even more or to work with us on "Phase II": Implementing Soft- and Hardware for a Hardware-Based Blinkenlights Player. This will most likely based on one of Zilog's new Development Kits - the "Z8 Encore!"." -
Zilog To File For Chapter 11
Frédéric writes: "The venerable company ZiLOG who was founded in 1974, and who brought us the famous Z80 CPU (used in the Timex/Sinclair ZX80/ZX81, and the Amstrad CPC/PCW computers), is filling for Chapter 11 ... I didn't find the today's news on the web, but found this article at Silicon Strategy and this one at Electronics times, which was written a few days ago to announce it." -
Zilog (re-)introduces the Z80
The Finn writes "Zilog has introduced an update to their now infamous Z80 line of processors. The new eZ80 ``[...]is one of the fastest 8-bit CPUs available today, executing code 4 times faster than a standard Z80 operating at the same clock speed.'' The last Z80-based computer I actually used for any length of time was a Xerox 820-II CP/M box, but the Z80 continues to live on in all kinds of embedded applications. " -
Zilog (re-)introduces the Z80
The Finn writes "Zilog has introduced an update to their now infamous Z80 line of processors. The new eZ80 ``[...]is one of the fastest 8-bit CPUs available today, executing code 4 times faster than a standard Z80 operating at the same clock speed.'' The last Z80-based computer I actually used for any length of time was a Xerox 820-II CP/M box, but the Z80 continues to live on in all kinds of embedded applications. "