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Fairchild F8
1975
Fairchild's 1975 8-bit microprocessor family, used in the Channel F, the first cartridge-based games console.
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Reference & documentation
External technical references for programming Fairchild F8 and for writing emulators.
| Resource | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fairchild F3850 Central Processing Unit Datasheet (1982) ↗ | Datasheet | Canonical CPU datasheet with electrical and timing specs |
| 1982 Fairchild Microprocessor Products Data Book ↗ | Datasheet | Full family datasheets: 3850, 3851, 3853 chips |
| Fairchild F8 Opcode / Mnemonic & Flag-Status Tables (L. Turner) ↗ | Instruction set | Every opcode with cycles and flags affected |
| Fairchild F3850 CPU Datasheet (pinout diagrams) ↗ | Pinout | 40-pin package pinout and signal descriptions |
| F8 Guide To Programming (Fairchild, 1976) ↗ | Programming | Official programming manual with instruction usage examples |
| Fairchild/Mostek F8 Development Kit Assembly Manual (1975) ↗ | Programming | Assembly-level dev kit manual with board layout |
| F8 Preliminary Microprocessor User's Manual (Jan 1975) ↗ | Reference | System architecture, ROMC signals, interrupts, and I/O |
| Fairchild F8 - Chessprogramming Wiki ↗ | Reference | Registers, scratchpad, ISAR, and instruction table overview |
| MAME F8 CPU Core (f8.cpp) ↗ | Source | Reference emulator implementing all opcodes and ROMC states |