:>:And we're talking Z80 compatible mode here, for old stuff. New stuff can
:>:ofcourse use the Z380's full potential!
:>
:>Ah, relief, relief...
:
:Do you know the Z380 has 89(!!!) 8-bit registers?
:Or if you need 16 or 32 bit registers, there are 40(!!)
Yeah, I already knew that... 4 banks of shadow-registers and IX and IY can
also be swapped.
Bu err... I kinda like my conventional limit of AF, AF', BC, BC', DE, DE',
HL, HL', IX and IY (and IR, PC and SP).
:And that's not counting I, PC and SP ^_^
But you have counted R in??? THen you should also count I in. By the way, if
you need an extra register on Z80, you can just use I (unless you are in the
interrupt modes which uses I (2, I believe).
But LD I,A and LD A,I are quite a bit slower than LD B,A and LD A,B... If
I'm correct the I-register takes 12 T-states and the B-register (and all
other 'normal' registers) takes only 4.
~Grauw
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