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Originally Posted by samejamesbond
Alright, but they can answer the Atari port right?
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Yes they can.
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Originally Posted by Seahawk
To be sure, I'm not saying that choosing the Z80 was a bad choice--in fact it probably made porting arcade titles much easier since most arcade games at the time used a Z80 as the main CPU. I'm just asking why they chose THAT particular CPU over everything else. Maybe you should ask if making arcade games easier to port was an objective in the design process.
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I believe they said something along the lines that TI was really pushing their 7000 series on them but the major reason they chose the Zilog Z80 is because it's what their programmers had the most experience with.