Z80: the last secrets
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Describes reverse engineering of undocumented Z80 CPU registers (MEMPTR and a later-discovered secret register) uncovered by retro-computing communities decades after the chip’s design; covers why emulators might need to model such undocumented microarchitectural behavior and the investigative approaches used by forum contributors to reveal those hidden registers.
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