On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/26/25 01:40, Tony Nicholson wrote:
>         Separately, what is this, if I may ask?  I did several commercial
>     designs with eZ80 microcontrollers (specifically eZ80F91) many years
>     ago.  I liked them a lot, but Zilog's toolchain wasn't very good, and
>     the whole ecosystem was displaced (for my work anyway) by ARM (now ARM
>     and RISC-V) with GCC.  Much better overall but lacks that sexy "Z" on
>     the package.. ;)
>
> It is indeed a eZ80F91 evaluation board, set to run CP/M 2.2 with shared
> drives
> over Ethernet.  I can connect to it from a VT220 or from other systems using
> Kermit/XMODEM via LAT (or the Telnet gateway on the Lantronix).

   This is very cool.  I still have my old eZ80F91 eval board; is this
setup documented somewhere such that I may replicate it?

Dave,

I went looking through my web bookmarks for the links to run CP/M-2.2 on the
eZ80F91 (which also requires the Zilog ZDS IDE).  Ths link I have is dead - but
luckily the wayback machine has it at -

https://web.archive.org/web/20120109082747/http://www.shaels.net/index.php/mic80

There are some documents and a zip file containing the project source and
zdsproj build files.  The built CP/M system is then flashed to the development board
flash memory.  It supports a simple IP/UDP protocol stack that can access disk
images served by the Z80emu Windows program by the same author (it implements
his RDISK protocol).

I know I had to juggle through numerous ZDS versions to get one that worked with
my ZPAKII flash loader - namely ZDS II eZ80Acclaim! 4.11.0 (Build 07071801).

If you need a a copy of this particular ZDS or the other files, let me know and I can
put them up on my Google Drive or on one of me HECnet nodes for you to grab.

Tony

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Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson@computer.org>