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| Todd | Dev8085A couple weeks ago, I took a bet with someone that I'd be able to write an Intel 8085 assembler and emulator to beat our professor's and I decided to do so. I called it "Dev8085" and have released it as freeware for anyone to use.
I know practically no one uses Assembly on here (other than for some gfx/mouse init codes) much less an Intel 8085 CPU. But I figured I might as well show it off and see what people think.
http://sixbynine.net/filequick/462-d
It's not the best emulator nor is it the most efficient. My first goal was to get it working, now I might work on getting it to run faster. It's fairly limited as far as features like I/O and interrupts but I made it to run the same instruction as my Computer Engineering professor's.
Not sure what feedback I'll get (if any) on here but just posting it for fun.
Enjoy.
P.S. It runs on Windows so you'll need WINE to run it. I'll eventually convert it to Linux/Mac builds if there's a genuine interest in it. | 2010-11-12 | 4:50 PM |
| HorvatM | Re:Dev8085Interesting. I didn't know the 8085 even existed, but it seems similar to the Z80. I'll have a look at it tomorrow. | 2010-11-12 | 5:36 PM |
| Todd | Re:Dev8085The 8085 is very similar to the Z80 except that the Z80 had more instructions, used less power, and had improved processing time over the 85. | 2010-11-13 | 9:31 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Dev8085Is the 8085 a least cheaper, or something? :P
| 2010-11-14 | 7:24 AM |
| Todd | Re:Dev8085I'm not entirely sure but I think the Z80 was cheaper. The Intel 808X series had tons of competitors all trying to make either the same thing or better for a cheaper price. Even countries like Russia and East Germany were making knock-offs. | 2010-11-14 | 9:37 AM |
| Brandon | Re:Dev8085WellI can see why the Z80 was/is so popular.
| 2010-11-14 | 9:59 AM |
| HorvatM | Re:Dev8085Even countries like Russia and East Germany were making knock-offs.
USSR, or the Soviet Union, you mean. And it's not like there weren't clones of the Z80. From Wikipedia:
Zilog licensed the Z80 design to any company wishing to make the device royalty free, though many East European and Russian [sic] manufacturers made unlicensed copies. This enabled a small company's product to gain acceptance in the world market since second sources from far larger companies such as Toshiba started to manufacture the device. Consequently, Zilog has made less than 50% of the Z80s since its conception. | 2010-11-14 | 10:43 AM |
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