The History of Zilog & Z80

[Chris Savage]

The Z80 has always been my favorite platform. I never had more fun with hardware AND software on any other platform.

[JKnightandKARR]

I have a book on the Z80 someplace. No clue where.

[Chris Savage]

I have a book on the Z80 someplace. No clue where.

I have a few books. There are two I gave away back in the day and regret, since I cannot find replacements for either. These were two of the BEST books for the Z80 I ever owned. Lessons learned.

[granz]

I also have (had?  ) several Z-80 books. The one that I liked the best was the manual for Radio Shack's EdtAsm (Editor/Assembler.) It showed each, and every, assembly instruction with all variations, plus every register changed by that instruction. It was a lot of fun (and informative) to browse through the listing. If I recall correctly, it also gave examples for how to use many of the instructions.

[Chris Savage]

I also have (had?  ) several Z-80 books. The one that I liked the best was the manual for Radio Shack's EdtAsm (Editor/Assembler.)

I'm not familiar with that one. But I do feel like what I have left is sufficient when you consider the addition of the internet, which wasn't around when I first programmed the Z80. Ironically, the Table-driven assembler (TASM) I used back in the day still runs in a command prompt window under Win 10! I was shocked! But I still use it and Notepad to write ASM for the Z80 and 6502. I remember when I used to run TASM on a 8088 from a 5-1/4" floppy disk!

[granz]

I remember playing with TASM many years ago. In fact it is on my system right now, ready for when I get back to retro assembler programming. 

One of the things that I remember is looking at the tables, and how to customize TASM, and starting into modifying it for CardIAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_Computation)