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I just found a copy of a book on programming the Z80 chip by a guy called
Rodney Zacks. It's a bit tatty, and there's large chunks of pages that
aren't connected to the rest of the books, but hey-ho.

Sadly it's in one of the uni libraries, but I'll maybe get it out over
Christmas for a bit of light reading in between notes...

</Niall>

FWIW, IMHO that's definitely one of the best Z80 books written.

--Adam

Quote:> I just found a copy of a book on programming the Z80 chip by a guy called
> Rodney Zacks. It's a bit tatty, and there's large chunks of pages that
> aren't connected to the rest of the books, but hey-ho.

Hey, that's the book I learned Z80 with.... honest itsa right good night
time read...

Mike W

:s/rodney/rodnay/

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Oh, THAT book... it's merely a pale imitation of Rodney's one.  Avoid.

Rooney?

You plonker!

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Ooh! Anyone ever OCR'ed it in? I'd love to learn Z80.
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Rodney Zaks also wrote the classic "CP/M User's Guide".  Its prediction that
anyone who didn't use CP/M would fall by the wayside was looking dubious
even in 1980, but has some nice pictures of strange late 70s hardware.

Quote:> I just found a copy of a book on programming the Z80 chip by a guy called
> Rodney Zacks. It's a bit tatty, and there's large chunks of pages that
> aren't connected to the rest of the books, but hey-ho.

> Sadly it's in one of the uni libraries, but I'll maybe get it out over
> Christmas for a bit of light reading in between notes...

> </Niall>

Many eons ago,  in the dim, dark and distant past, The Starglider once waffled
on about:

Quote:> >FWIW, IMHO that's definitely one of the best Z80 books written.

> Ooh! Anyone ever OCR'ed it in? I'd love to learn Z80.

It's dead easy stuff..

Ahem. That's assuming you have a least a basic understanding of a CPU, can grasp
the fundamentals of registers and addressing modes and the fact that it's going
to take you a long time to do *anything* in assembler.. I mean in terms of
instructions - like to print a character on the screen. (What? Like two
instructions on the Speccy? Ed. Yes, well, shut up Ed.)

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Hob.

Replace a with er.
Use the apostrophe correctly! http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

I have a book called Maths Tutor For The ZX Spectrum - And I still use it
for programming in delphi....

It's great. And I love it lots.

Quote:> I just found a copy of a book on programming the Z80 chip by a guy
> called Rodney Zacks. It's a bit tatty, and there's large chunks of
> pages that aren't connected to the rest of the books, but hey-ho.

> Sadly it's in one of the uni libraries, but I'll maybe get it out over
> Christmas for a bit of light reading in between notes...

That's *the* book on Z80 programming you've found there. Apparently. I
never read it.

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Duncan Snowden.

a MERGE error, 1420:4

Aaaah. Innat nice?

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H STOP in INPUT, 1460:4

And it is very nice too. I keep it on a shelf above my PC where I can gaze
at it for hours.

Has anyone ever suggested you get out more?

Not that I'm recommending you take their advice, mind. Just curious.
People say it to me all the time. It's beginning to get annoying.

Well, I *say* "people". It's the gnomes who live under my desk. They're my
friends.

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Duncan Snowden.

G No room for line, 1540:4

:> > I just found a copy of a book on programming the Z80 chip by a guy
:> > called Rodney Zacks.
:>
:> :s/rodney/rodnay/

: s/zacks/zaks

Yahahahahahaha.

I have used my mystical powers to use the optimal combination of spelling
mistakes on purpose.[1]

Neal Clarity.

[1] Well, I simply remembered an earlier thread, and that's quite
    mystical, innit?