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From Andrey Smirnoff To All 29 August 1997


Hello, Dmitry !

My on-board systems detected that on Tuesday August 26, 1997 20:05, Dmitry
Zubarev wrote Aivars Andersons:

AA>> What are these .Z80 files? And how to convert them so that the
AA>> emulator understands them? Or what to do with them?

DZ> You know, now everyone is passionate about Enlight - no one will answer you :)
But no.
DZ> In general, you don’t need to convert them in any way - just use an emulator
DZ> UKV or Lunter (IMHO, - G.A.) they will understand it...
Nonsense.
For Z80 the best choice: x128 (DOS version).

Sincerely, Andrey Smirnoff.
[TEAM ViSUAL C++] [TEAM OSR2 PE] [TEAM Sound Forge 4.0]

From 812/08.16 To All 5 September 1997


The other day, September 01, 97, at 20:16, Vlad Balabanov wrote to Alexey Potekhin:

Glad to welcome you, Vlad!

AP>> ── ZILOG Master Selection Guide 1994-1995
AP>> ┌─────────────────────ї
AP>> │ Discrete Z80 Family ║
AP>> ╘═════════════════════ў
AP>> NMOS/CMOS Z80 CPU (Central Processing Unit) [Z8400/Z84C00]

AP>> ─── Z380 MICROPROCESSORS [Z80380/Z8L380]

VB> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ if there is anything else about it, let's say more, and if
VB> there is an opportunity to throw everything completely.

Ziloga really has such a feature, it has a 16bit data bus, a bus addresses
32bit is compatible with Z80, what's new: all commands with half index
registers have become documented, IM 3 mode is another interruption,
all sorts of RRW, RRCW 16-bit shifts, LDIW, EX r,r; EX rr,rr;
EXXX, EXXY, ADD rr,rr, MUL, DIV, DJNZ (32-bit), etc.
This is what I immediately remembered, there is a lot of everything there.

VB> and you forgot the most important thing: PRICE :)

Not very big.

VB> P.S. well, let's start crushing people on PC, amiga with the new ZX computer 8-)
VB> but seriously, why in Sprinter, as I understand it, did they put
VB> the usual Z80 + bells and whistles, and not Z380?
VB> Anyone who has information about Sprinter, let them throw it here.

Because F. Peters is only now ready to make a car so that it can be driven
everythingSpectrum toys, so, and if they suddenly give up everything and start working on the Z380, then Sprinter will never appear. Next car from f. Peters
it will be 32-bit with a bunch of coprocessors.

VB> P.P.S. if suddenly Sprinter folds, there are people who would like to

I would ask you not to talk like that about something that has not yet been born. :)

VB> to develop a computer based on the Z380?
VB> I really want to, but I don’t have enough knowledge yet (radio technical school),
VB> really, wait at the university (it’s 5 years :( ), and you need money for
VB> it’s needed...

Well, F. Peters is developing it, they have knowledge and money.

VB> Vlad
Sincerely Denis.

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From John Stunner To All 6 September 1997


Glad I found you alive, Denis!!!
However, 05 Sep 97 you wrote something addressed to Vlad Balabanov:

DP> EXXX, EXXY, ADD rr,rr, MUL, DIV, DJNZ (32bit), etc.
^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
How's that? 32bit address or counter?

With best wishes, John.

===> #/FUCK/# *mUlTiMeDiA*, #/MAKE/# more $dEmOs$ ===>

From Maxim Polyanskiy To All 6 September 1997

And write all the software for it from scratch? The commands there are 50% different and the 9 addressing modes are very reminiscent of dvk-shku. By the way, this miracle is not as fast as we would like, it seems to be 25 MHz if I'm not mistaken. And there is hardly a
computer in the world where it is used, unless it is a very advanced controller for
controlling CNC machines......