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SiriusHardware · 15th Apr 2019, 10:58 pm

I love Z80, when I was playing about with my Maplin Z80 system a while ago I was struck by how luxurious the instruction set seemed. I remember a lot of the opcodes even to this day. Of course, this marks me out as coming from the Sinclair tribe - I still have my original ZX81 and 48K Spectrum, along with a couple of other Sinclair machines which were not originally owned by me.

The main things I wish the SC/MP had are CALL and RET instructions and a proper stack pointer to support those.

Having a cross assembler for SC/MP is the final link in the chain - once you have that and combine it with some way of getting your assembled code into the MK14, the MK14 is almost as much fun to play with as an Arduino, PIC or AVR, although of course all of the latter have extra goodies like built-in UART, I2C, SPI, Timers, analogue inputs, PWM outputs...

15th Apr 2019, 10:58 pm	#166
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,556	Re: MK14 schematic revisions I love Z80, when I was playing about with my Maplin Z80 system a while ago I was struck by how luxurious the instruction set seemed. I remember a lot of the opcodes even to this day. Of course, this marks me out as coming from the Sinclair tribe - I still have my original ZX81 and 48K Spectrum, along with a couple of other Sinclair machines which were not originally owned by me. The main things I wish the SC/MP had are CALL and RET instructions and a proper stack pointer to support those. Having a cross assembler for SC/MP is the final link in the chain - once you have that and combine it with some way of getting your assembled code into the MK14, the MK14 is almost as much fun to play with as an Arduino, PIC or AVR, although of course all of the latter have extra goodies like built-in UART, I2C, SPI, Timers, analogue inputs, PWM outputs...