hmmm don't really know much about the z80. i mainly focused on the 6502 because it was in all the machines i wanted to code for apple //, commodore 64, pc engine, and nes/snes, and even today people are still making things with it. i've seen a few diy computers using 6502 also.
http://hytherion.com/beattidp/comput/x65tools/diy6502/diy6502.htm
http://www.parallax.com/tabid/708/Default.aspx
i just posted the playpower because, it just shows that things people think are obsolete really aren't. for example game consoles get abandoned and upgraded before people can max out the hardware. but also this brings to mind questions like why don't manufacturers open up the machine once it's dead in the first place. and also it would be an easy set up for someone like myself who wanted to get into developing for a 6502 machine without having to go to boutique places and getting sometimes exspensive flash carts, or going on ebay to bid high prices on things , etc. this project also has tons of researchers and universities working on it, and tons of potential.
it's not really about the cpu at all. it's just the idea that in the age where everything is so high tech now and you can do so much with what we have, we can also do that with something thats 20+ years old. it also points out that things move in cycles, a machine comes out, dies, then gets a second life just by a bunch of people who can still see it's potential, or even just out of nostalgia.
http://hytherion.com/beattidp/comput/x65tools/diy6502/diy6502.htm
http://www.parallax.com/tabid/708/Default.aspx
i just posted the playpower because, it just shows that things people think are obsolete really aren't. for example game consoles get abandoned and upgraded before people can max out the hardware. but also this brings to mind questions like why don't manufacturers open up the machine once it's dead in the first place. and also it would be an easy set up for someone like myself who wanted to get into developing for a 6502 machine without having to go to boutique places and getting sometimes exspensive flash carts, or going on ebay to bid high prices on things , etc. this project also has tons of researchers and universities working on it, and tons of potential.
it's not really about the cpu at all. it's just the idea that in the age where everything is so high tech now and you can do so much with what we have, we can also do that with something thats 20+ years old. it also points out that things move in cycles, a machine comes out, dies, then gets a second life just by a bunch of people who can still see it's potential, or even just out of nostalgia.