Homemade Z80 COMPUTER running elementary BASIC language

[utoobepee]

Have you thought of ever putting a cooling fan over the benchmark?

[ZeldaGamer9]

i've heard about the z80, and i'd like to make a neat project like this, just slightly different with floppy controller and drive, for the old school media, and because every pc i own has one and i have a sound blaster 16 card lying around. i'd like to make use of all of that old stuff. i've saved and found many motherboards and could use many parts from each. this is serving as a motivation to do it.

[iLife64]

whats name of song?

also nice choose using the suitcase as the casing

[juttdisco1]

@iLife64  = read the fucking description

[SuperSwaggkid21]

jk



[SuperSwaggkid21]

it took u 21 year to do that

lol

[SomeAssholeOnYT]

@SuperSwaggkid21 No he said about 3 dumbass.

[senorverde09]

I loved how you actually used chips manufactured from that era (as I noticed that was one old Z80 you had on that board!). Maybe one of these days I'll match you with a 6502 based homemade computer. :)

[SomeAssholeOnYT]

@senorverde09 6502 is epic.

[prehistoricBanana]

I would love to make my own computer one day from a 16 bit cpu, it's a shame I'm too lazy and probably will never gain the knowledge but good job to you.

[lovelplants]

cool i'll do it myself. ty

[HelpMyFellowPeople]

Suitcase bomb!

[TheNiggiboy]

AMD CHIPS :D!!!

[datltq]

you, sir, are awesome!

[bdemutis2375]

Wtf is the point jw its not like I can surf the web lol

[nxadmon]

Where's that terrible music croming FROM!? **searches frantically through all tabs

[pufixas]

this is fcking awesome

[maiznieksmaize]

what does it do? is it useful?

[pufixas]

@maiznieksmaize

Dude it's same as saying is music useful and what does it do... its just fcking stupid question

[SomeAssholeOnYT]

@maiznieksmaize It is a basic computer that can add and do very simple programs. It is useless compared to computers made now but some people like me like to take a look into the past, I find computers like these facinating. This is my nephews youtube by the way so don't reply.

[AlexMikael]

thats sooooo cool! :D

[Harky88]

CoD must be loads of fun on this :D looks like alienware :D :D

[bruno5467]

how many day for build this computer and do the electronic shematic ?

combien de temps cela vous a t'il pris pour faire l'assemblage et la conception ?

[ggunderscoreit]

@bruno5467 This project tooks almost three years: two years for the hardware, one year for the software. But please consider two or three hours a day in average, not full time! Thanks.

[DLiberator78]

This is really cool seeing this home-made Z80 computer a real popular chip back in the 80's, great to see the 8 character BASIC language running. I can imaging you were really pleased once you completed this project and for me this would be really rewarding as I am sure it was for you. Thanks for sharing.

[PoplarToppler]

Awesome



[MigueDog]

so charming lol!!

[kiyotewolf]

this music is dang infectious..

[kiyotewolf]

To quote Dave Jones on the EEVBlog, .. "this is sex on a stick!"

I particularly love the way you're able to condense entire BASIC commands into a fixed area like that.  I also love the funky pink color, brought about by the protective plastic & light of the LED combined.

This screams cool.

[ggunderscoreit]

@kiyotewolf Thank you for your comment. To enhance the displays' red light I used Cokin P003 red photo camera filter. Regards GG

[GalaticTG]

@kiyotewolf

Also a fan of the eevblog :)

[hanrinch]

can i play cysis on this machine XD

[ggunderscoreit]

@hanrinch

Of course!! :-)

[hanrinch]

cool! :D

[Films4You]

Sinclair ZX80 1KROM, Built in BASIC, 4KRam if i remember. Tape cassette back up and Televistion as a VDU

[benryves]

Fantastic work on this project! The build quality is superb and I'm surprised at how neatly you've managed to fit a usable BASIC interpreter interface onto those LED displays.

I ran the benchmarks on my 10MHz Z80 computer under BBC BASIC and the first benchmark completed in ~3.9s, the second one ("BM9") in ~302s (5m02s).

[ggunderscoreit]

@benryves Thanks for running these benchmarks and for your new video, I appreciate. Your machine is very fast and highly precise. If you are interested on the complete list of results I suggest you to google : "MWIGAN THE BM9 BENCHMARK FROM ALL SOURCES". Regards