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From: leif@ambone.UUCP (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Looking for Z80 to 8086 translator
Keywords: Z80, 8086
Message-ID: <135@ambone.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 88 16:41:28 GMT
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Organization: AmbraSoft A/S (Denmark)
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hartvig@freja.dk (Hartvig Ekner) writes:
>I'm looking for a translator (public domain with source if possible)
>that can translate Z80 assembler to 8086 (source -> source). I have 
>about 20000 lines of Z80 that must be rewritten to run on a PC, and even
>if the translator only does part of the job, it would be a great help.

It should be quite easy because the original 8088 was made to look
like 8080 meaning the source-assembler-format is the same so you
actually only need to substitude text to convert it! (Intel has some
papers that explain how to do it). The Z80 is a superset of the 8080
as 8088 is a superset of 8080, so if you can get your code from Z80 to
8080 using the same method and from 8080 to 8088 your problems is
solved! Except for on thing! Z80 has more commands than 8080 and 8080
has some special features that isn't included in 8088 but the most of
the job should be faily easy... :-)

>Thanks in advance,

Your welcome

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