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The Zilog Z80 microprocessor celebrates its 50th anniversary, reflecting on its profound impact on early personal computers, home computers, and industrial applications, along with personal anecdotes and historical context.
A collection of web-based emulators for classic 8-bit computers, including Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore, and Robotron models, built with Visual 6502 and Visual Z80 Remix.
The Zeal 8-bit Computer is an open-source Z80-based hobbyist computer board, with multiple prototype revisions and a newly released video board add-on.
This article introduces the Bit 79 home computer released by Taiwan's Bit Corporation in 1989. It is an FC clone with built-in BASIC, 8KB RAM, and a cassette interface, achieving computerization of the FC architecture earlier than most learning machines. The article also provides a detailed analysis of its hardware design and historical background.
The author used Codex to optimize DeepSeek V4 Flash 8-bit MLX on oMLX, achieving approximately 1.6x prefill and 3x decode speedup.
OpenMed privacy-filter v2 using nemotron and MLX 8-bit achieves 755 tokens per second on a Mac, redacting 1,152 PII identifiers across 22 categories from a 13,000-token clinical file without data leaving the machine.
GLM 5.2 GGUF quantized model is released, with 8-bit version half the size of the full model; smaller versions are coming soon.
A website that converts live MLB data into near real-time 8-bit pixel art broadcasts of baseball games, with stadium details, day/night modes, and interstitials.