Wonderful video. I learnt so much on Z80 machines, including writing machine code on a ZX81 and Spectrum. Good computing days! :)
@DesandSam
Ай бұрын
Me too, my friend. Me too.
@zilog1
Ай бұрын
It turns out that one of my co-workers at a computer recycle shop I work at in Seattle is actually a co-author of one of the z80 books from radio shack. Jim. I'm going to get him to autograph One of my books. 😅😊
@reggietheporpoise
Ай бұрын
re-pc?
@zilog1
Ай бұрын
@@reggietheporpoise Shhhhh
@rolvs
Ай бұрын
Are you a true nerd if you cry when you watch this video?
@ChrisCowley1
Ай бұрын
Almost brought a tear to my, that. End of an era, and the end of the only CPU I feel even vaguely competent at writing assembly language for.
@fredsmith1970
Ай бұрын
I cut my programming teeth on Z80 computers in the early 80's - ZX81, ZX Spectrum and CPC464 - learnt assembly language on them too. Although I've been nowhere near a Z80 computer in almost 40 years, and probably never would again, it's still sad to think that it now truly is a thing of the past. RIP
@John_Ridley
Ай бұрын
I wrote so much Z80 assembly as a teen and early 20s. I had a TRS-80 and the serial interface and other stuff on it had crap to no drivers. I also couldn't afford to buy the assembler, so I hand assembled everything, converted to decimal and put all the drivers in data statements and poked them into memory in the startup phase of my programs. I knew Z80 assembler better than any subsequent processor, out of pure need.
@esra_erimez
Ай бұрын
I showed this video to my dad and he saw your comment. He did the same thing himself as a kid. He used the Zaks book which is still in our basement.
@John_Ridley
Ай бұрын
@@esra_erimez Yup I definitely had that book. ED B0 all the time!
@fredsmith1970
Ай бұрын
Same - I hand compiled Z80 code for an Amstrad CPC464 - wrote the assembly out on paper, translated the code to the equivalent hex codes and poked directly into memory. (Which was really hard to then debug!! 🙂)
@himselfe
Ай бұрын
You just made me shed a tear for an ISA I didn't even like. 😢 RIP Z80, long live 6502!
@IanScottJohnston
Ай бұрын
Got into the electronics side of the Oil Industry aged 19 in 1984......the company's products revolved around the Z80A, then the Z280, add to that the home computing revolution that I got into also (ZX Spectrum). Goodbye Z80, we will not forget you.
@martin.pokorny
Ай бұрын
Funny thing ... I have a new job as a Java developer and at the job interview we were talking among other things also about the Z80 assembler. Programming in Z80 assembler is still fun. Z80 is not trully gone. I'm not sad, I'm happy for the Z80. Great video, Ben!
@kalimaa999
Ай бұрын
I was just 3 years old when my dad bought me my first Z80. It fit so perfectly into my little hands. I dreamed of all the things that could be accomplished with the little guy, but ultimately I swallowed it. My mother was a bit worried, so she waited to see if it'd come out of the other end... It never did. She waited weeks, but still nothing. Both my parents decided I ought to get a scan to see if it was lodged inside. When the doctors presented us with the scan results, they noticed it had been fused into my heart. It was too risky to try and remove because it was now controlling my blood pressure. When I pass, I'm thinking of donating my heart to the North Korean Institute of Future Sciences. If not, then I've asked my children to bury my heart separately in the hopes of growing a Z80 tree. God Bless.
@zilog1
Ай бұрын
And this is where Protogens come from.
@strayling1
Ай бұрын
Ah well. Still, we'll always have the 6502.
@rwslaugh
Ай бұрын
Thanks Z80 for introducing me to the world of electronics, via my first computer, the TRS-80
@whollymindless
Ай бұрын
Hard to imagine the world without it...
@zorochii
Ай бұрын
How is this actually feeling like someone important just died?? Z80, I honestly don't want to see you go...
@LG_Prd
Ай бұрын
Thank You Z80, you basically teachs Brazil how to play games (the master system is still a thing over here). My overly-modded master system and me bow in respect to you and all the fond memories! (Press F to pay respects)
@vxidastronaut
Ай бұрын
Brazil took to the MasterSystem like Afghanistan took to the Toyota Hilux
@jeffh8803
Ай бұрын
This shit deserves an Oscar
@dfbess
Ай бұрын
Aww..that was a great tribute. Terry Jacks song fit perfectly..
@maltronik
Ай бұрын
This song was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the news... That's so weird...... Aaa.. what a lovely video... Thanks Ben..❤
@JacobScherer
Ай бұрын
Make sure to check in on your microprocessors from time to time to make sure they are ACK-OK. RIP Z80
@NickT6630
Ай бұрын
The Z80 will still be around in 20, 30, 40 years time because there are so many retro computer collectors and enthusiast's.
@MegaManNeo
Ай бұрын
Time for FPGA Z80s to shine!
@user-zo9dc1lu3q
Ай бұрын
My beloved Game Boy uses a variation of the Zilog Z80
@KeithVeleba
Ай бұрын
I gotta admit, this hit me right in the feels. Nice video.
@profdc9501
Ай бұрын
Will generations know the joy of building your own microcomputer from parts? I feel old. Alll passes into history, by and by.
@mbirth
Ай бұрын
"We had joy, we had fun, we had Linux on a SUN."
@elbiggus
Ай бұрын
All together now: "We had joy, we had fun, flicking bogies at the sun, but the sun was too hot and our bogies turned to snot." On a less childish note, AFAIK the eZ80 is binary compatible with the Z80 so with a bit of work it's probably possible to build an adapter board, and there are a bunch of FPGA implementations and some Open Silicon projects so it may be dead, but it's not stopped moving yet...
@BenHeckHacks
Ай бұрын
Yeah the eZ80 is basically a Z80 with a ton of modern peripherals attached (such as USB as in the TI-84 CE) Still it's crazy the OG Z80 was being made as recently as 2023.
@Nichetronix
7 күн бұрын
It was my first microprocessor for assembly language. You never forget your first LDIR.
@erikkarsies4851
Ай бұрын
Nice tribute Ben!
@MikesTropicalTech
Ай бұрын
My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 when I was 14. The "System" cassette tapes were un-copyable so I accidentally taught myself Z80 assember to read the data from the tape and write out to a blank tape. Got a Model 3 later then jumped into early cloned IBM PCs, a Zenith unit that I upgraded the 8088 with an NEC V20. Ah the good ole days.
@user-td4bn6ju4p
Ай бұрын
Me, as an 8-year-old: "We had joy, we had fun! We went STREAKING IN THE SUN! But the Cops they had guns, and they shot us in the buns!!"
@PiManiac
Ай бұрын
for me it was: We had joy , we had fun, we had {insert your rival football team here} on the run, but the fun didn't last, cause those bastards ran so fast.
@Gh0sTlyD3th
Ай бұрын
The Z80 is only dead after everyone forgets about it, and everyone has forgotten how to program for it. LONG LIVE THE Z80!
@OM19_MO79
Ай бұрын
In the field of electronics and computing, end of support is death. Sure, there’ll be people using them, making new stuff for it and even making clones, but that’s just like when people look a pictures, videos, recordings or cosplays or act as a dead person; is just not the same. Flash. Analog TV Windows 7 Nintendo eShops for WiiU and 3DS. Stadia. Nintendo Network. Zilog Z80. XBOX 360 Marketplace. So much pain. So much death.
@rivards1
Ай бұрын
Really great video, Ben. Totally respectful of the end of a product that touched all our lives.
@theforthdoctor7872
Ай бұрын
Very moving Ben, I'm almost crying here. Well done.
@Pete292323
Ай бұрын
Someone at Texas instruments had a heart attack when he saw the news, half of their overpriced graphing calculators run a Z80.
@fdsman
Ай бұрын
The new TI calculators don't use an actual Z80 anymore, they emulate it with an ARM processor.
@JonSturm
Ай бұрын
@@fdsman That is not true, the TI-84 Plus CE series uses an ASIC based on the eZ80 line from Zilog.
@TheGameboyGTS
Ай бұрын
Touching video, Ben.
@DUKE_of_RAMBLE
Ай бұрын
Sincerely. It really, _really_ was. 😢 It undoubtedly took a bit of time to track down all of those clips, which is proof enough that it came from Ben's heart! _(no pun intended by "a bit" being so close to "8 bit")_
@chupathingy5862
Ай бұрын
What the hell, why is this so touching?
@pikadroo
Ай бұрын
If you think about it. The Z80 helped us create all the modern tech we have. You could not have what we have today without it.
@Dwedit
Ай бұрын
Not truly dead until all the clone manufactures stop making theirs.
@W4TRI
Ай бұрын
Someone better not tell my small stack of Amateur Rdio TNC units that will not quit! ALL z-80. I feed them a steady diet of data and the odd 2032 to keep time and memory. Fine tribute Ben!
@alanpurdom
Ай бұрын
That was beautiful.
@ugzz
Ай бұрын
Goodnight Z80, you fueled many a childhood! (and interest of all ages)
@granitepenguin
Ай бұрын
It's never truly gone as long as it's remembered by someone.
@DaWalkDude
Ай бұрын
I've seen anime music videos.... but never a microprocessor music video. MMV, a new genre invented by no one but Ben himself. What a legend
@ericgillespie4062
24 күн бұрын
I don't know how you're going to top this one, Ben. Well done, sir!
@theterriblegamer1228
Ай бұрын
Realizing the impact this chip had on our modern world is mind blowing.
@scowell
Ай бұрын
I shed a tear for the RatShak Model 1... cassette Edtasm, my first love.
@aarondcmedia9585
Ай бұрын
Came for the nostalgia. Stayed for the key change. Vale Z80.
@McTroyd
Ай бұрын
Wow. I can't remember the last time I heard that song. Great video to go with it, Ben. 👍
@joerhorton
Ай бұрын
Glad to see the Z80 and from a brit, the ZX Spectrum. Sad to see it go.
@Sansui350A
Ай бұрын
Nice Ben... very nice. Definitely an awesome send-off to the Z80 brother.
@joshsamuelson1793
Ай бұрын
Now Texas Instruments will have to actually innovate their decades old overpriced graphing calculators.
@RetroDepot
Ай бұрын
Nah, there are still second source clones out there. The TI will be good to go for another 40 years.
@CommodoreFan64
Ай бұрын
@@RetroDepot Yep, and will still charge $100 to $200 bucks for them without a data cable in the package 🤦♂
@JonSturm
Ай бұрын
TI basically never used the DIP packaged Z80's that were discontinued and they moved to having the CPU integrated into the ASIC many years ago so ending production of DIP Z80's doesn't matter to them. Besides the fact that the latest generation Ti-84 Plus CE series uses an eZ80 based core in the custom ASIC in place of the older Z80 based one of earlier calculators.
@CommodoreFan64
Ай бұрын
@@JonSturm whoosh right over your head dude, it was a joke! 🙄
@phillip5245
Ай бұрын
Commenting before the song copyright strike.
@BastetFurry
Ай бұрын
You mean downloading it before copyright strike?
@erikkarsies4851
Ай бұрын
Maybe with Pi's and 3d printers. You could build your own 'Clean garage' to produce Z80's? When I googled for it there is actually a 22 year old who did build a chip fab in his parent's garage :D
Ай бұрын
Great homage Ben !!! I knew I had used Z80 chips... didn't know how much... :)
@juststeve5542
Ай бұрын
RIP Z80... I was always more of a 6502 boy back in the day (how can any instruction take 12 cycles?!! 😱), but my Game Gear still works 😁
@radarmusen
Ай бұрын
My first home computer was a zx81 the zx spectrum later I got a Z88 so much fun it has been giving me.
@GrandTheftWatto
Ай бұрын
Finally, on to the Z81
@ruadeil_zabelin
Ай бұрын
That song. Oof. So fitting
@briangoldberg4439
Ай бұрын
i think it was about his childhood friend dying of cancer or something horrible like that
@chrism72727
Ай бұрын
So after all these years... the C64 finally settled the win over the ZX spectrum!!! 🎉🎉🎉
@DogRox
Ай бұрын
I agree the perfect song for perfect video of memories that will never fade away! :-) I love it!
@senilyDeluxe
Ай бұрын
"memories that will never fade away" winces in Micron Technologies RAM :-D
@theeggman4806
Ай бұрын
Gotta admit I had a sniffle...lol it will NEVER die...
@johanlaurasia
Ай бұрын
My first CPU.... started out on a TRS-80 Model 1, and first assembly language I ever learned... Z80. Cool vid Ben.
@chrissawyer1484
Ай бұрын
Wow, so many good memories thanks to the Z80. Thank you for this, Ben.
@Mike-B-Jackson
Ай бұрын
Capcom CPS-1 arcade system used a z80 as the audio coprocessor.
@JohnJones-oy3md
Ай бұрын
RIP Z-80
@OtreblaMaslab
Ай бұрын
Thanks Ben I'm crying haha
@RetroDepot
Ай бұрын
Hey Ben, ever seen a Z84C50, aka Z80 RAM80? Interesting variant of the z80 Zilog made for a short run. Includes some really cool features. Including 2k of internal, relocatable, RAM. I've got a couple of them in DIP-40. You might be interested in taking a look at one...hint hint...
@johnsonlam
Ай бұрын
Proper song with screen! Great producer Ben.
@akraus53
Ай бұрын
I dont know why i watch your videos only rarely, they're so cool and filled with love and so many nerdy and geeky comments. You're generation of hardware based electrical geeks is dying out and I'm sad to see y'all leave. I hated how slow the Z80 was at finding zero crossings in my Texas Instruments graphing calculator but I never realized how important that chip is to technology and especially to some people like you. Thanks for the eye opener ;)
@vervalkon
Ай бұрын
what a tear-jerker
@reasonablebeing5392
Ай бұрын
RIP Z80. It's unfortunate that Zilog never really followed up with a competitive next generation processor. Rightly deserved or not, the semiconductor industry joke about Zilog as they released the Z800, Z8000, etc. was "Zilog adds another zero". But you still have to pay homage to Zilog for the Z80.
@TomStorey96
Ай бұрын
Zilog adds another zero, Intel increments by 100. The IBM PC was probably the killer application that won Intel the throne. Imagine what computing would be like today had they chosen a different processor...
@Leemonoid
Ай бұрын
Memories... Thank you Ben.
@cmarciales
Ай бұрын
Great tribute. Thanks Ben.
@philsbbs
Ай бұрын
great video
@davidthefat
Ай бұрын
Ben Heck, now that's a name I haven't heard in years!
@geoffgranger718
Ай бұрын
Beautiful video! Beautiful processor! So long good friend.
@antiquemuscle
Ай бұрын
My first micro. This was the processor that launched my career.
@Pistoletjes
Ай бұрын
Same here. I recently started programming Z80 assembly again - around 40 years after learning is
@ibrahim.t3530
Ай бұрын
Second to comment, why this feels nostalgic 😭 love your content Ben🌹
@Spintechfilms
Ай бұрын
Gotta admit that the Z80 was my childhood
@reductor_
Ай бұрын
I haven't felt the need to collect before, but this makes me mighty tempted to start.
@devjock
Ай бұрын
TIme to do a full baremetal emulation on a Pi Pico. I can already smell the pcbway levelshifter daughterboards. Something something PiStorm80. The classics will never die.
@markojojic6223
28 күн бұрын
I thought of just doing it the cool way by using an FPGA and learning the witchcraft language VHDL to cope with grief
@yumann
Ай бұрын
This is a work of beauty!
@jeffkrupke3810
Ай бұрын
That's crazy they are stopping producing that chip.
@caodesignworks2407
Ай бұрын
It's crazy they produced it for 48 years
@jeffkrupke3810
Ай бұрын
@@caodesignworks2407 pretty good run for anything.
@hypurban
Ай бұрын
Now consolize a TI-83+ please. Those games need the big screen.
@mikemorrell7921
Ай бұрын
Nicely done Mr Heck
@esra_erimez
Ай бұрын
My dad got a little emotional watching this.
@michaellitscher9456
Ай бұрын
My first computer was a Morrow Designs Z80 desktop computer with a serial terminal and dual 5 1/4 floppies that ran CP/M. It got me through the first couple years of college before I built a 486 machine.
@tassiebob
Ай бұрын
Amazing video - thanks for putting that together!
@pablofederico1978
Ай бұрын
Amazing video! so emotional!
@Waifu4Life
Ай бұрын
Had to activate my VPN in order to view this in Canada, worth it however!
@wolvenar
Ай бұрын
Canuckistan strikes again. Sorry for the loss of your once pleasant country. I hope it turns around.
@Waifu4Life
Ай бұрын
@@wolvenar It was a copyright issue with the song used.
@wolvenar
Ай бұрын
@@Waifu4Life And that's somehow better? Remember Canuckistan sets their own copyright law. I'm sure with some under the table influence just like most nations.
@TheRealAstroChicken
Ай бұрын
Perfect.
@mattrenegar476
Ай бұрын
Soundtrack is incredible
@EricFraga
Ай бұрын
The king is dead. Long live the king!
@COMATRON.
Ай бұрын
u are the man - great idea
@Nermash
Ай бұрын
Good ones never die
@50shadesofbeige88
Ай бұрын
Great video😊
@Slydog43UTube
Ай бұрын
Great video
@Zenas521
Ай бұрын
Good editing on the video. A nice tribute to a grate chip.
@PierceAndjelkovic
Ай бұрын
But the eZ80 still lives on!
@LieutLaww
Ай бұрын
It powered my Toshiba MSX HX-10, which I still have !
@Gunbudder
Ай бұрын
time to stockpile Z80's! it will never die! as long as gameboys exist, someone will keep making those chips
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