Projects involving vintage CPUs

[davenn]

I grew up in computing when the Z80 was in its heyday
the only language I ever learnt to fully program in was basic fir the Z80 family

I once owned a Sinclair ZX, Spectrum, Tandy TRS80, Dick Smith System 80


here's some of interface IC's .....
the Counter/Timer Channel (CTC), the SIO (Serial Input Output), the DMA (Direct Memory Access), the PIO (Parallel Input-Output) and the DART (Dual Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter).

 

[HellasTechn]

personally, I wouldn't really work about using them in a circuit, there's just too many other peripheral IC's and other components needed
to get something up and running
I/O controllers, RAM, ROM etc etc

It is the prigramming that i worry about.
I really flip out when i see 50 pages of programming that are all chineese to me since i am Hellinas(Greek) for instructing a cpu to calculate 1+1 and say 2

 

[chopnhack]

It is the prigramming that i worry about.
I really flip out when i see 50 pages of programming that are all chineese to me since i am Hellinas(Greek) for instructing a cpu to calculate 1+1 and say 2

Agreed, I assume that this is the case when you have to actually move the individual registers or "gates" of the chip - that is why the abstraction, programming languages can achieve so much using so few lines in comparison.

 

[HellasTechn]

I think i am way out of my league here. I may as well just drop the project since i have seriusly lilited time to learn programming.
Cant teach an old dog new tricks. Tough i am not that old.

 

[HellasTechn]

No new ideas ?