Z80 turns 50 as an open-source drop-in replacement nears DIP40 silicon
logickkk1
16 points
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July 19, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
musicale
Great tiny tapeout project; hopefully this will result in drop-in replacement Z80 parts for vintage machines as well as new designs and homebrew systems for CP/M etc. Then there is the MCLZ8, a cycle-accurate emulator that runs on a microcontroller (which itself is much more powerful than the original Z80) based board that can plug into a hardware Z80 socket: https://microcorelabs.com/2022/05/11/mclz8-zilog-z80-emulato...
musicale
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951461