The "Zilog" part refers to the company that made the CPU architecture. The "Z80" part is the actual name of the CPU architecture. There is no single "assembly language". Assembly code is a family of programming languages which is used to represent machine code (numbers) that the CPU understands in a more human-readable fashion.

For example, the numbers "66,10,0" tells the CPU to load the number "10" into the HL register. This is pretty hard for a human to read, so instead Z80 assembly lets you simply write "LD HL, 10", and then it will convert that code into our numbers "66,10,0" when you "assemble" or "compile" the code.

For different CPUs, you have drastically different machine code, and thus completely different assembly languages for them. Most modern desktops use x86_64 assembly, things like the 3DS and Raspberry Pi use ARM assembly. Although, your code also changes quite a bit depending on your operating system. The assembly code for a Windows PC will be quite a bit different than that same PC running Linux instead.

You actually don't need a desktop computer to write Z80 assembly code. The TI-83+ line has an assembler called Mimas that runs on the calculator itself and that I've used a lot. Pair that with the external keyboard and the composite video out box, and it's pretty comfortable to program that way. The calculator also has a built-in "AsmComp(" routine, but that's for hex codes, which is moreso just machine code written in hexadecimal and isn't really assembly.

As for writing code on the computer, I'd highly recommend SPASM-NG. This is a great cross-platform assembler that can build Z80 code directly to a TI-83+ file, so it can easily be transferred to the TI-83+ and executed. It also supports eZ80 assembly code, which is what the TI-84+CE understands.

You can go to places like WikiTI, z80 Heaven, and Cemetech to learn Z80 coding for the TI-83+ line. But a lot of machines can run Z80 code just as long as they have a Z80 CPU. Most from the early 80s, like the TRS80 and ZX Spectrum home computers. Not many modern machines run Z80 code besides the TI-83+ line of calculators. Although HAL Laboratory did recently just release a Z80 computer, but it actually uses an ARM chip and does Z80 through emulation.

If you're coding Z80 on a different machine, the code will have to be different due to the machines having different hardware and software layouts.

I used to have programs like these with this error…

GatoradeDC, if you know how to program in hexadecimal, you can do the same thing for this program (in hex, not system language).

If I understand correctly from my sources, I believe that is the assembly source code for the program prgmONBLOCK. If you want to avoid the "Bad Token!" error, convert this to hexadecimal, so it will not read it as invalid tokens.

If you are wanting to write an assembly program, you need a computer and an assembler. You will also need TI-Connect to transfer the program.

.nolist #include "ti83plus.inc" .org userMem-2 .db $BB,$6D .list bcall(_RclAns) bcall(_ConvOp1) ld a,e or a jr z,Install_Interrupt dec a ret nz Uninstall_Interrupt: im 1 ret Install_Interrupt: di ld hl,$9900 ld de,$9901 ld bc,256 ld (hl),$9a ldir ld hl,interrupt_start ld de,$9a9a ld bc,interrupt_end-interrupt_start ldir ld a,$99 ld i,a im 2 ;switch to mode 2 ei ;enable interrupts ret Interrupt_Start: ex af,af' exx in a,($03) and %11111110 out ($03),a call $003A reti Interrupt_End: .end