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Tiny Emulators
- Alive-in-2025 2y agoLots of interesting emulators and variants of old games. It'd be nice to have a TLDR for your emulators. Looked at your old blog postings, you've had a great career. I started a few years after you, I wish I'd written continuing blogs like yours...
- ngcc_hk 2y agoGreat. Tbh just to maintain multi platforms and ensure some works are hard work for hobbyists…
- MomsAVoxell 2y agoPretty cool .. one thing, it needs more Oric: https://oric.games/ https://oric.games/
- Datagenerator 2y agoThanks! Reliving childhood memories
- MomsAVoxell 2y agoLive some new adulthood ones, too! https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/copy-of-games-list-2024 https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/copy-of-games-list-...
- skywal_l 2y agoFlooooh's code is also very easy to read so it's a pretty good documentation for these old systems especially as the (some?) emulators are cycle accurate[0] [0]: https://floooh.github.io/2019/12/13/cycle-stepped-6502.html https://floooh.github.io/2019/12/13/cycle-stepped-6502.html
- devdri 2y agoThe way it uses pin state (number passed as argument / result) for communicating with the outside world is genius. This way it very clearly matches what happens in hardware each cycle. Typical alternative is that the "cpu" calls read/write on the memory/peripherals - which gets tricky when the exact read/write cycle of the multi-cycle instruction matters for accuracy (e.g. racing the CRT beam). I wonder if similar approach could realistically be applied to slightly newer generation hardware like GBA with ARM7TDMI.
- whstl 2y agoFloooh is amazing. One of my favourite libraries ever is Sokol, which is used for those emulators AFAIR: https://github.com/floooh/sokol https://github.com/floooh/sokol It hits the spot for me in terms of features, small-size and ease of use/embedding. Every other library has way too much I don't need and way too little that I do. It was also a fantastic code reference for me, when I was porting game code between platforms. It has all the answers I need in it, and I know how to navigate it quite well after those years. If one studies it enough it has enough material for a few reference books.
- pjmlp 2y agoNow this is a great use of WebAssembly.
- antirez 2y agoThat's a work of art. I had a lot of fun with these emulators in recent years. Some time ago I reworked the Spectrum emulator to work with the RP2040: https://github.com/antirez/zx2040 https://github.com/antirez/zx2040 One of the incredible things of these emulators is that the chips are emulated in a completely modular and isolated way, and the interface to take everything together are the pins! Yes, the logical state of the pins in the emulated chip, which is awesome and really shows how each of those machines used to work.
- fjfaase 2y agoNice to see the Acorn Atom, one of the first computers I wrote software for and also the first I wrote an emulater for under Solaris using X11 in the nineties.
- jhbadger 2y agoAnd the KC series, a series of East German computers that people on the other side of the Iron Curtain probably have never heard of.
- ochrist 2y agoThe Acorn Atom was the first real computer I had after the Texas TI59. It was later replaced with a BBC model B (and later again with an Archimedes). Sadly I got rid of the Atom when I moved out all those years ago, but the Beeb and the Arch is safely stored at the loft in my current house. Are there anywhere you can get any kind of programs/games that can be loaded in the Atom emulator? All my old cassette tapes are gone many years ago.
- fjfaase 2y agoI do not know if you can run games on these online emulators, but there are multiple emulators that can run games. Just do a little internet searching. I quickly found Atomulator.
- gitroom 2y agoman i get super into these old emulator projects - the fact folks make them work across platforms blows my mind. ever feel like going back and rebuilding something from scratch just for the challenge?
- flohofwoe 2y agoLate to the party, but the 'proper' link is: https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/ https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/ (the post's link is https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/ https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/ which I had put up at some point in the past to test some new features, but it's very outdated by now).