yaze-ag mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• cdm
• yaze
• yaze_bin
• z80

Projektgeschichte

The older yaze documentation shows Yaze 1.00 as a 1995 Z80 emulator by Frank D. Cringle. The YAZE-AG README describes yaze-ag 2.51.3 as a further development of yaze 1.10, maintained by Andreas Gerlich at the University of Ulm.

YAZE-AG's 2.x line added an emulated memory-management unit and a BIOS for CP/M 3.1 or the ZPM3 replacement used by the package. The README also highlights undocumented-opcode support, regression testing against real Z80 hardware, and portability across Solaris, Linux, Raspberry Pi OS, Orange Pi, FreeBSD, macOS, and Cygwin.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The adoption story is narrow but real: YAZE-AG circulates in CP/M and Z80 retrocomputing circles, where users want a Unix-hosted emulator that can boot CP/M-compatible environments and move files between the host and emulated drives. Forum posts and package ports preserve it as a specialist emulator rather than a mainstream virtualization tool.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run yaze to start the Z80/CP/M environment, use bundled disk images or CP/M drive mappings, and use tools such as R.COM, W.COM, or the cdm disk manager to move files between host directories and emulated CP/M storage. The README calls out read-only mounted host directories for importing files into the emulator.

The package is especially useful for experimenting with CP/M utilities, WordStar-era software, Z80 code, and disk images without needing original hardware.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

YAZE-AG is package-manager archaeology in the best sense: a small C emulator whose value is preserving access to a vanished operating environment. It is significant because package collections make retrocomputing tools reproducible and buildable on current Unix systems.

It also shows a common pattern in emulator packaging: an original project, a maintainer-specific continuation, documentation hosted on a university page, and downstream packages keeping the whole thing installable long after the target machine disappeared from ordinary use.

Zeitleiste

• 1995: Yaze 1.00 appears as Frank D. Cringle's Yet Another Z80 Emulator.
• After yaze 1.10: Andreas Gerlich's YAZE-AG continues the emulator as a 2.x line.
• 2.x line: YAZE-AG adds an emulated MMU and BIOS support for CP/M 3.1 or ZPM3.
• 2022: The README date for yaze-ag 2.51.3 describes it as a stable final release.

Related projects

• Yaze 1.x is the original emulator line that YAZE-AG continues.
• ZPM3 is the CP/M 3-compatible BDOS replacement used by YAZE-AG.
• z80pack is another Z80/CP/M emulator suite often mentioned in the same retrocomputing niche.

Quellen

• https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=67537
• https://github.com/agl7/yaze-ag
• https://github.com/agl7/yaze-ag/blob/master/README.md
• https://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=1&topic=YAZE-AG
• https://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/users/ag/yaze-ag/yaze_doc.html