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Pre-RetroChallenge - The story so far
Ok, so tomorrow the Summer RetroChallenge 2014 starts, so I thought it would be a good idea to bring you up to speed with what I've got so far so that you know where I'm starting from. I will also outline where I'll be taking things for the RetroChallenge as well as where this project may go in the future. So, in December 2013 I started poking around the internets for some ZX80 info, and I stumbled upon Grant Searles website. More specifically, he had the schematics for a Z80 based computer and a ROM with Microsoft BASIC on it. So, over Christmas I got out my breadboards and built it up pretty much as per the schematic.
Home built Z80 video on Computerphile
In posts to come I'll go in to some details about the breadboard Z80 computer I built recently, but, in the mean time, here's a…
