Z80 disassembler for Linux

From: Scott Stevens <sastevens_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Apr 7 16:15:40 2004

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:08:17 -0400
Jim Donoghue <jim_at_smithy.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to find a Z80 disassembler for Linux. There are a bunch of
> DOS ones out there, doesn't do me any good. A long time ago I had
> downloaded one that was source and compiled it, but I can't remember
> what it was. Anybody know of one?
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> Jim

Anything as simple as a Z80 disassembler is a stdin/stdout app anyway. You should find a DOS emulator for Linux and use that to run a DOS disassembler. You can even run a free/alternative DOS if you don't want any Microsoft products on your drive. There's no reason to invent the wheel, and I suspect most people would just run something old under emulation, which is a fine tradition going way back. A universal disassembler that is 'Open Source' would be a cool thing to have, though.

I at one point was even running my Needham EPROM programmer (the cheap simple one that is an ISA card and driven by a DOS program) under emulation on Linux. Just had to 'punch a few holes' with the Dosemu configuration for IO ports that DOS then had permission to read/write directly through.

That said, you should look at tools that the people emulating and/or writing games and code for the Gameboy are using, and I think one of the HP Calculators, as I understand those devices have a Z80-like processor in them. That's likely to be the place where 'the newer generation' are messing around with Z80 code, so it's where you'll find Linux stuff, if anywhere.

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