Re: A86: gbdk

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: gbdk
From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:18:47 EDT
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 10/6/99 15:17:07 Eastern Daylight Time, 
latino978@hotmail.com writes:

> The Gameboy doesn't have a Z80?  I could have sworn that the gameboy had a 
>  z80 or z180... at least that's what I think I heard Nintendo and the 
makers 
>  of NO$GMB say.  Hmmm.  I know that the new gameboy won't have a z80, but i 
>  thought that the original had like 4mhz z80 and GBC had like 6.7 mhz 
z80...  
> 
>  Please clarify.  And if so then why have several TI-8X z80 developers 
(Clem, 
> 
>  Andreas Ess, Matt Shepcar) started to also program for gameboy?  Is it 
>  similar or just another new exciting platform/language to learn?

It's based on the z80, and shares many similarities.  However, it _is_ a 
different cpu.

----
Jonah Cohen
<ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
http://linux.hypnotic.org/~jonah/

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