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Many thanks to the following individuals (in alphabetical order):
* Akimov, Vadim (lvd)
For testing the library on many different platforms and CPU architectures.
* azesmbog
1. For validating tests on real hardware [1].
2. For his research on the unstable flag behavior of the "ccf/scf"
instructions.
3. For his invaluable help.
* Banks, David (hoglet)
1. For cracking the flag behavior of the block instructions [2,3].
2. For his research on the flag behavior of the "ccf/scf" instructions [3].
* Beliansky, Anatoly (Tolik_Trek)
For validating tests on real hardware [4].
* Bobrowski, Jan
For fixing the "Z80 Full Instruction Set Exerciser for Spectrum" [5].
* boo_boo
For cracking the behavior of the MEMPTR register [6,7,8,9].
* Brady, Stuart
For his research on the flag behavior of the "ccf/scf" instructions [10].
* Brewer, Tony
1. For his research on the special RESET [11].
2. For sharing information about the RESET signal [12].
3. For helping to crack the flag behavior of the block instructions [2].
4. For performing low-level tests on real hardware [2].
5. For helping me to test different undocumented behaviors of the Zilog Z80.
* Bystrov, Dmitry (Alone Coder)
For validating tests on real hardware [4].
* Chunin, Roman (CHRV)
For testing the behavior of the MEMPTR register on real Z80 chips [6,7,8,9].
* Conway, Simon (BadBeard)
For validating the "Z80 Test Suite" on several Z80 clones [13].
* Cooke, Simon
For finding out how the "out (c),0" instruction behaves on the Zilog Z80
CMOS [14].
* Cringle, Frank D.
For writing the "Z80 Instruction Set Exerciser" [15].
* Devic, Goran
For his research on undocumented behaviors of the Z80 CPU [16].
* Flammenkamp, Achim
* For his article on Z80 interrupts [17].
* Gimeno Fortea, Pedro
1. For his research work [18].
2. For writing the first-ever ZX Spectrum emulator [19,20].
* goodboy
For testing the behavior of the MEMPTR register on real Z80 chips [6,7,8,9].
* Greenway, Ian
For testing the flag behavior of the "ccf/scf" instructions on real hardware
[10,21].
* Harston, Jonathan Graham
1. For his research work.
2. For his technical documents about the Zilog Z80 [22,23,24].
3. For porting the "Z80 Instruction Set Exerciser" to the ZX Spectrum [25].
* Helcmanovsky, Peter (Ped7g)
1. For helping me to write the "IN-MEMPTR" test.
2. For writing the "Z80 Block Flags Test" [26,27].
3. For writing the "Z80 CCF SCF Outcome Stability" test [27].
4. For writing the "Z80 INT Skip" test [27].
5. For his research on the unstable flag behavior of the "ccf/scf"
instructions.
6. For his invaluable help.
* icebear
For testing the behavior of the MEMPTR register on real Z80 chips [6,7,8,9].
* Kladov, Vladimir
For cracking the behavior of the MEMPTR register [6,7,8,9].
* Krook, Magnus
For validating tests on real hardware [28].
* London, Matthew
For validating tests on real hardware.
* Molodtsov, Aleksandr
For testing the behavior of the MEMPTR register on real Z80 chips [6,7,8,9].
* Nair, Arjun
For validating tests on real hardware [26].
* Nicolás-González, César
For helping me to research the unstable flag behavior of the "ccf/scf"
instructions.
* Ortega Sosa, Sofía
For her support.
* Owen, Simon
For the idea of the hooking method used in this emulator.
* Rak, Patrik
1. For improving the "Z80 Instruction Set Exerciser for Spectrum" [29].
2. For cracking the flag behavior of the "ccf/scf" instructions [13,29].
3. For writing the "Zilog Z80 CPU Test Suite" [29,30].
4. For his research on the unstable flag behavior of the "ccf/scf"
instructions.
* Rodríguez Jódar, Miguel Ángel (mcleod_ideafix)
For his reseach on the state of the registers after POWER/RESET [31].
* Rodríguez Palomino, Mario (r-lyeh)
For teaching me how emulators work.
* Sainz de Baranda y Romero, Manuel
For teaching me programming and giving me my first computer.
* Sánchez Ordiñana, José Ismael (Vaporatorius)
For validating tests on real hardware [32,33].
* Stevenson, Dave
1. For testing the special RESET on real hardware [11].
2. For performing low-level tests on real hardware [34].
* Weissflog, Andre (Floh)
1. For finding out that the "reti/retn" instructions defer the acceptance of
the maskable interrupt [35].
2. For writing the "Visual Z80 Remix" simulator [36].
* Wilkinson, Oli (evolutional)
For validating tests on real hardware [26].
* Wlodek
For testing the behavior of the MEMPTR register on real Z80 chips [6,7,8,9].
* Woodmass, Mark (Woody)
1. For his invaluable contributions to the emuscene.
2. For writing the "Z80 Test Suite" [13].
3. For his research on the flag behavior of the "ccf/scf" instructions [37].
4. For writing the "HALT2INT" test.
5. For writing the "EIHALT" test.
* Young, Sean
1. For his research work.
2. For his technical documents about the Zilog Z80 [18,38,39].
* ZXGuesser
For validating tests on real hardware.
References
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* https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=211042#p211042
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3. Banks, David (2018-08-21). "Undocumented Z80 Flags" revision 1.0.
* https://github.com/hoglet67/Z80Decoder/wiki/Undocumented-Flags
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Instructions" v0.15.
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* https://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Z80/OpCodeMap
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* http://zxds.raxoft.cz/taps/misc/zexall2.zip
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