Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!clements@bbnccq.ARPA From: clements@bbnccq.ARPA (Bob Clements) Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: z80 devel on ibm (&clones) Message-ID: <554@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Mon, 5-May-86 14:27:08 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.554 Posted: Mon May 5 14:27:08 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 04:44:14 EDT Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 40 >From: F-S@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA >Subject: z80 devel on ibm (&clones) >Message-ID: <12204299630.17.F-S@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA> > > >In article <2763@sdcrdcf.UUCP>, alex@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alex Hwang) writes: >> I am in a situaion where I need to develop code on an IBM-PC but the >> debugged code is going to run on a custom Z80 board. >> >> Alex Hwang > >The cheapest solution is to replace your 8088 with the NEC V20 chip. >Besides having a superset of the 8088 instruction set it has an internal >z80 emulator, allowing direct running of z80 software. >Regards, der This is incorrect. The V20 has an 8080 mode, not a Z-80 mode. There are also various software support packages to complete the CP/M environment by making use of the V-20 processor under the MS-DOS system. I have heard of public domain ones, but not used them. I use one put out by Intersecting Concepts called Acceler8/16 (not public domain). I then run M-80/L-80, DDT, etc. under that. I haven't yet tried BDS-C, but I think it should work. Acceler8/16 also includes a software simulator of the 8080, so you can do the same thing without an NEC V-20 processor. This works fine, too, but is of course a lot slower. You can also get MS-DOS cross compilers that produce 8080 or real Z-80 code. I know Aztec makes (or made) one. I've seen it but I don't have it myself. Bob Clements CLEMENTS@BBN.ARPA {ihnp4, linus, decvax}!bbncca!clements K1BC @ K1BC Everything above is the trademark of somebody. I have no financial interest in any of them.