Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Part 2 in my series on building a Zilog Z8000 computer. In this video I add several more boards. The first is a combination compactflash/IDE and floppy controller board. Next up is a raspberry pi bus supervisor that lets me read and write memory and provides a shared disk. Finally, I add a speech synthesizer. I always add a speech synthesizer. I also play a few old infocom games, generator a maze, and print my name in tiny basic. The Z8000 was a 16-bit microprocessor from the mid 1980s. It didn't really succeed commercially, and it's difficult to find computers that used the Z8000. So I decided to make one just for one to put this oddball CPU to use. For more electronics projects, see smbaker.com
Part 2 in my series on building a Zilog Z8000 computer. In this video I add several more boards. The first is a combination compactflash/IDE and floppy controller board. Next up is a raspberry pi bus supervisor that lets me read and write memory and provides a shared disk. Finally, I add a speech synthesizer. I always add a speech synthesizer. I also play a few old infocom games, generator a maze, and print my name in tiny basic. The Z8000 was a 16-bit microprocessor from the mid 1980s. It didn't really succeed commercially, and it's difficult to find computers that used the Z8000. So I decided to make one just for one to put this oddball CPU to use. For more electronics projects, see smbaker.com
