Z80 disassembler for Linux

From: Scott Stevens <sastevens_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Apr 7 20:14:08 2004

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:58:25 -0700 (PDT)
"Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com> wrote:

> >From: "Scott Stevens" <sastevens_at_earthlink.net>
> >
> >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?
> >>
> >> Jim
> >
> >Anything as simple as a Z80 disassembler is a stdin/stdout app anyway.
>
> Hi
> It is interesting that my definition of a disassembler is
> quite a bit different than yours. I would call this a code
> lister. A disassembler includes comments, selecting data types,
> labeling branching and entry points and statistical cross referencing
> ( usually as comments in code ). This is often an interactive
> process.
> I guess writing one's own disassemblers tends to spoil a person.
> Dwight
>

I was referring to 'simplicity' in the matter of the resources of the host system it uses, not the complexity of the actual disassembler. Good disassemblers are very very complex and powerful tools.

A good disassembler could have a powerful interface using simple 'curses' functionality or whatever the crude equivalent would be on MS-DOS.
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