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Why don’t these retro remake computers use actual 8 bit CPUs?

8bit CPUs are still available aren’t they?

I don’t get it. If it doesn’t have an 8bit cpu then how is it anything else but a modern machine?

I think it is - it's a 6502-ish CPU implemented, along with the rest of the logic, on an FPGA. It's just that it can run 40x faster than the actual CPUs.

Confirming the MEGA65's CPU is indeed 8-bit. We have gone to considerable effort to avoid having ANY non-8-bit CPU.

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