18 Jun
2007
18 Jun
'07
10:19 a.m.
On Monday 18 June 2007 10:52, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 6/18/07, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at
floodgap.com> wrote:
I actually probably have more familiarity with the z80 than any other part,
and was surprised about 10-12 years ago to be talking to a guy about getting
paid for that bit of expertise. The job offer was contingent on some sort of
a merger deal and who would or wouldn't be willing to relocate to Houston
afterwards so it eventually fell through, but it was rather interesting to
see some demand for what I'd thought were obsolete skills at that point in
time.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
Actually, I see a lot more Z80-based games than
6502 or 68000. Ready
supplies and familiarity with most contemporary programmers, I would
expect. Not that there aren't surfeits of 6502 and 68K games, of course.
Sure. I think the 6502 was heavily favored by Atari (for obvious
reasons) and not many other vendors. The 6809 (Defender, et al.) was,
I think, more popular; but I agree, the Z-80 was exceedingly popular.
It was powerful, inexpensive, and there were lots of folks with lots
of experience to make code that performed well. There were plenty of
8080-based games in the black-and-white era, as well - those were the
vendors that moved up to the Z-80 later.