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There's a fairly active hobbyist scene around the East German 8-bit computers, and most of them seem to hang around here:

http://www.robotrontechnik.de/html/forum/thwb/index.php, I think you need to ask for access though.

You can check out some of the games running in emulators here:

https://www.lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html

...and in my own emulators here (not as complete as the above link though):

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/

Oh, and there's also:

http://www.kc85emu.de/ and http://www.mpm-kc85.de/ with lots of scans of old manuals, also information and photos of the hardware.




Also, I was amused that the recent article here on the "tiny emulators" (browser based) featured both KC85 and Robotron Z1013 emulators https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/ -- I imagine the author must have some GDR connection as those are pretty obscure elsewhere.


my First Computer was actually a HC 900 second one a KC85/2




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