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The Z80 is very easy to drive on a breadboard - since it just needs a clock. Add a few LEDs to show address-line accesses and you're done: https://www.youtube
by stevekemp 7y ago
The Z80 is very easy to drive on a breadboard - since it just needs a clock. Add a few LEDs to show address-line accesses and you're done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFIviiwPrLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFIviiwPrLI
The Z80 has RAM-refresh support built-in, and can be hand-clocked if you wish making it one of the simplest processors to run - in terms of required external components.
- Marazan 7y agoThe hand clocking is the magic of the Z80 for me. That you can manually toggle a button to step through every tiny change is so cool.