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June 2024

• gus_massa 1y ago
  Big discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083885 (79 points | April 2024 | 28 comments) Relevant first comment by nanolith: > The good thing is that, for hobbyists anyway, there are so many used and new-old-stock Z80s floating around that the immediate impact of this won't hit for a while. After that, there are plenty of soft core (fpga) Z80 clones, as well as emulators to run on modern microcontrollers. Zilog also has ISA compatible microcontrollers that can be retrofitted. It's unfortunate that the official Z80 is being retired, but the future of retro-computing is cycle-accurate FPGAs. [...]