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Life & fun · December 14, 2015

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YAKC – a KC85 emulator (East German 8-bit)

portable KC85 emulator written in C++

YAKC – a KC85 emulator (East German 8-bit) launched on December 14, 2015 with 6 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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The KC85 was a series of 8-bit computers built in Eastern Germany during the 1980’s. The KC85/2 and its successors were the most interesting machines, because they had a unique hardware and operating system design, detailed below. From here on, the name ‘KC85’ will be used for the KC85/2, /3 and /4 line of computers only. All computers of the KC85/2 line were based on the U880 CPU (an ‘unlicensed’ Z80 clone) running at 1.75 MHz or 1.77 MHz and didn’t have any custom chips for video or audio. The closest western 8-bit homecomputer was probably the ZX Spectrum, which also didn’t have custom chips, had a similar video memory organisation, but was running twice as fast at 3.5 MHz. All KC85…from floooh.github.io

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