Re: Is there a z80 emulator for the II's?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4ks5gp$lgn@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>,
Michael Quattrocchi <mquattro@chat.carleton.ca> wrote:
>After seeing the motorola 68000 emulator / cross-assembler recently posted
>to the binaries group, i was wondering if there was ever a z80 emulator
>available for the IIe/IIgs (IIgs preferred). I'm not talking about AE's
>z80 cards, or anything hardware related, really; just looking for an emulator
>that will run software-wise on a IIgs preferably.

   I didn't think that the 68k cross assembler also did emulation, but
I never really cared enough to download that thing.

   As to a z80 emulator, with z80 cards so readily available in the
1980s (CP/M fanatics and all that), and the fact that emulation would
be a fairly serious speed hit (probably at best 1/4 speed unless you
did some fancy stuff like recompiling pieces of code on the fly), I
never heard of a software emulator.

>In the same vein, a IIgs assembler/disassembler for z80 code would be
>handy, too...

   Yeah, that might be neat, but unless you're one of the few who
really needed such a thing, there's no general need to write such a
thing.  I can think (and dream of writing) a bunch of other things
that would be a lot more useful, but I have no time (graduating and
trying to find a job, etc) to do anything of the sort.

Nathan Mates


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