Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Multitasking on a Z80 CPU

@john2001plus
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I programmed games on a couple of different Z80-based systems. The traditional approach is to have a game loop that calls several functions inside the loop. Each function checks whether it needs to update something and performs the update only if necessary.
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