Z80: the last secrets
Microarchitectural leaks, 45 years later
- Track: Emulator Development devroom
- Room: D.emulator
- Day: Sunday
- Start: 10:45
- End: 11:30
- Video with Q&A: D.emulator
- Video only: D.emulator
- Chat: Join the conversation!
While writing a Z80 emulator, you might ask yourself: should it be 100% accurate ? Maybe not, if you just want to run old software. But what if you're not and this old software accidentally depends on undocumented behavior ? In this talk we'll explore how, 30 years after its design, a few people on a Russian retro-computing forum reverse engineered an undocumented Z80 register: MEMPTR. And how 6 years later, another even less known secret register was discovered.
Speakers
Anisse Astier |