In the summer of 1983, Ken Stone and myself designed the TEC-1, a simple Z80-based computer designed to teach people about microprocessors and programming in general. Ken and I built the prototypes, programmed the ROMs and prepared the kit for publication in a small Australian electronics magazine.
37 years later, interest in this kit has remained strong and I recently decided to revisit this old design and think about ways that it might still be relevant.
There have been a couple of emulations of the TEC-1 over the years. I wondered whether a good enough one could be written in JavaScript and run directly in a browser. It turns out that, yes, it most certainly can. You can see the result of my experimentation, a live working version of the TEC-1 running right here
This is a complete rewrite of the the Wicked Emulator. It's now written in React.