Re: A86: Zilog Z80 Microprocessor family manual is on Amazon.com!
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Re: A86: Zilog Z80 Microprocessor family manual is on Amazon.com!
It (the help file) does not contain important flag info. To be fair, I have
the Z80 User Manual and Rodnay Zak's book, so I think I can make a better
judgement then people who have either one or the other. And the User Manual
doesn't contain much internal information, but the Z80 Data book does (which
I have also).
Rodnay Zak's book is useful for algorithms and concepts, but their
instruction reference is pretty cheesy and I prefer Zilog's reference
better.
- Matt
> The Assembly Studio 86 help file has the same useful information. I never
> got the manuals (I tried twice and they sent me several books, but they
> weren't the right one), so I can't say. The only thing useful I could see
> is if it described how the processor works internally. I would be very
> interested in seeing the design of a hardwired cpu like that, plus it
would
> give insight on programming. But other than that, assuming that cycle
times
> are completely fixed, there are plenty of good documents on the cpu.
>
> > The benifit is that it contain a lot of technical information that is
hard
> > to find in references.
> > Every official Z80 instruction has about a page devoted to itself in the
> > manual explaining nearly every detail.
> > When I learned it, first I read a tutorial that covered all of the main
> > concepts.
> > Half a year later when I understood them, I looked in the manual and
found
> a
> > lot of information that I hadn't understood before, but was usefull and
I
> > hadn't seen anywhere else.
> > One other thing, most of the compact references had several errors in
> > them... but they have become very acurate now.
> > It is always nice to have it, but if you look hard enough, you'll
probably
> > find the information somewhere.
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