Search My Blog

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Easy to build Z80 single board computer - Hack a Day

Easy to build Z80 single board computer

posted Aug 16th 2011 6:01am by
filed under: classic hacks, hardware

[Alexis] sent in a single board computer he’s been working on. The project goal of his build was making it easily reproducible. From looking at the schematics, it’s one of the simplest fully-functional computers we’ve seen. The build runs CP/M 2.2 off of two 3.5 inch floppies. This opens up a lot of options as to what software is already available. Although it operates over a serial terminal, [Alexis] pretty much duplicated an Osborne I, only at double the speed.

[Alexis] got a little e-fame from his earlier 8088 homebrew computer built from very early 8088′s rescued from an electronics junk shop. These 8088 computers made the blog rounds by playing Still Alive with a SID chip from a Commodore 64 and a YM2151 FM synth chip.

For now, I guess we’ll have to settle for a video of [Alexis]‘ Z80 computer running CP/M. Check out a video after the break of his computer running the greatest Infocom adventure, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

tagged: , , , , ,

Go there...
http://hackaday.com/2011/08/16/easy-to-build-z80-single-board-computer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Easy for him... that is!:) Still, it makes me wonder... What I could come up with, with a little more knowledge and all of the old Computers and Electronics I have in the Garage...

Don
Easy to build Z80 single board computer
Easy to build Z80 single board computer - Hack a Day
Kaput.homeunix.org
Osborne 1 computer
Kaput.homeunix.org
Z80 Single Board Computer runs CP/M - YouTube
8080 Computer playing Portal Still Alive - YouTube
8080 Still Alive Take 2 - YouTube
Kaput.homeunix.org
http://kaput.retroarchive.org/index.html

Hacks


Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)