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   Show HN: HareBoy – A Game Boy emulator written in Hare(github.com)

   2 points by drpaneas 8mo ago|0 comments
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   by drpaneas 9mo ago

   glad to hear that tasa
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   by drpaneas 9mo ago

   Thanks Kosta <3
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   by drpaneas 9mo ago

   I think Lua (yes you can code Dreamcast games with it) would be really awesome for kids, being able to make their own games, given the language is simple, like Python. But in general, for serious stuff C/C++ is still the preferred way.
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   by drpaneas 9mo ago

   thanks @steeve :D
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   by drpaneas 9mo ago

   Thanks :D How about porting Diablo? https://x.com/PanosGeorgiadis/status/2005692695402955143
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   by drpaneas 9mo ago

   You've put a smile on my face reading your comment, thank you for your feedback, happy holidays :D
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   by drpaneas 9mo ago

   problem is TinyGo uses LLVM, which doesn't support SH-4. The only reason I went with gccgo is due to SH4 target. In any case, I learned a ton of things doing this project :D
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   by drpaneas 9mo ago

   Many thanks @dontaj much appreciated, indeed documenting the process felt like another project of its own, so I am very happy to hear that! The effective dreamcast Go was inspired from the old time classic https://go.dev/doc
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    by drpaneas 9mo ago

    I am using sh-elf-gccgo (GCC) 15.1.0 which is ok-ish I guess. But in general gccgo tries to be close to Go, but they do not implement all the features. e.g. generics are still missing for example.
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    by drpaneas 9mo ago

    yeah, been there, nostalgia hits hard. Dreamcast was a beast of its era, it even had Ethernet! Even the VMU was something extraordinary! Too bad SEGA had to cancel it :(
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    by drpaneas 9mo ago

    thanks @rpastuszak, much appreciated :D
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    by drpaneas 9mo ago

    Hey Timur, long time no see, I hope all is going well :) No, you cannot use generics, they are not yet supported by gccgo.
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    by drpaneas 9mo ago

    you're very welcome :D Thanks!
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    by drpaneas 9mo ago

    thanks @danhau, much appreciated, indeed documenting the process felt like another project of its own, so I am very happy to hear that :D
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    Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast(github.com)

    240 points by drpaneas 9mo ago|57 comments
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    by drpaneas 9mo ago

    I built a Go runtime that runs on the Sega Dreamcast, the 1999 console with 16MB RAM and a 200MHz SH4 CPU. You can write games in Go with goroutines, channels, garbage collection, and all the language features you'd expect. It compil
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    PIGO8 – A PICO-8 Inspired Fantasy Console Framework in Go(github.com)

    3 points by drpaneas 1y ago|0 comments