Date   : Sat, 26 Sep 1992 00:50:06 GMT
From   : usc!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!naos!ewen@uunet.uu.net (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Re: Joan Riff's Z80MU PROFESSIONAL Editor: 1 of 3

rfd@po.CWRU.Edu (Richard F. Drushel) writes:

>  [MYZ80]
>   Nope, it's not on SIMTEL20 yet, at least under PD1:<MSDOS.
> EMULATORS>.  Does this thing have a less extravagant shareware price
> than Z80MU PROFESSIONAL (i.e. $150.00)?

Yes.  Much less.  From memory the price is AUS$30 (works out to about
US$25 I think).

I've had a brief play with MYZ80 and was very impressed.  The pop-up
"debug" window is very useful (ctrl-break brings up a window which
allows single stepping, etc).

I brought it up, in the default configuration, out of the box.  By
default it runs ZPM3 (a CP/M Plus clone) and works very well.  Utilities
are provided for importing/exporting from the CP/M drive, and there is
an API around for talking to the host machines hardware (eg, for serial
comms, printer, etc).

I would strongly recommend obtaining a copy and having a look at it if
you are at all interested in Z80 and/or CP/M emulation. Oh, BTW, it's a
true emulator - with a real BIOS, BDOS, and CCP - none of this "emulated
BDOS" mess.

Simeon Cran, the author, has done a very good job with both MyZ80 and
ZP/M 3.  I use ZP/M 3 on my main CP/M machine, and it works nicely and
is a bit faster than the generic CP/M Plus.  MyZ80 is also very fast.  I
got the impression that on my 286/10 it was an effective 2.5 Mhz Z80 -
very very good.

> -- 
> Rich Drushel ** rfd@po.CWRU.edu *** Biology Ph.D. Student ** Cleveland FreeNe

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Ewen McNeill, ewen@naos.actrix.gen.nz (or ewen@actrix.gen.nz)