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PC Engine CPU

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

An in-depth look at the HuC6280 CPU used in the PC Engine, explaining how an 8-bit design leveraged high clock speeds and a built-in MMU for memory expansion. The article also covers new instructions for block data transfer, zero-page operations, and VDC port interactions, plus a performance comparison with SNES and Genesis. It includes memory map details and references for further emulation research.

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