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DZX STUDIO

A native Mac IDE for ZX Spectrum with tools from the future.

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Create, build, run and debug Sinclair BASIC and Z80 projects for ZX Spectrum 48K and 128K in a professional native Mac IDE.

PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: software development environments · 117 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Retro Games
  • Developer Tools

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Could you build this?

Partial The IDE shell, Sinclair BASIC and Z80 editing, and build tooling are vibe-codeable, but accurate ZX Spectrum emulation and debugging need specialist knowledge of Z80 timing, ULA behaviour, and 48K/128K memory banking.

What it would actually take: Build a native macOS app (Swift/AppKit or SwiftUI) wrapping a Z80 assembler and a cycle-accurate Spectrum emulator core, with the debugger driving the emulator's breakpoints and memory views. The hard parts are cycle-accurate timing (including ULA contention) and matching real hardware behaviour, which requires retro-computing and low-level emulation expertise plus test ROMs for verification.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 83 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #23 of 84 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.

  • ZXN Studio · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • switch2mac · github · 2026-11-03 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • bo2-mac · github · 2026-11-03 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • Ziex, a Zig web framework reaching its first release · hn · 2026-06-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • Friday · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
  • zxdesk · github · 2026-09-16 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.37
  • lab-ipxe-os · github · 2026-09-14 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.37
  • DevSexy · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37

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