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Emulators So... what is an emulator? Let's say you want to play an old game from the MS-DOS era. You have the DUKE3D.EXE file, you launch it and ...nothing happens. But why? Old systems had a different architecture from your PC. Loosely speaking, your PC doesn't recognize the program and refuses to execute it. You
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A high-level guide to making a CHIP-8 emulator.
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A multitouch and HCI research blog
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I recently finished building Ben Eater's 8-bit Breadboard Computer but near the end of it I realized that much of the fun was in the design and the learning, but the act of actually cutting wire was an exercise in tedium. I wasn't quite ready to put the 8-bit computer behind me, but I didn't want to cut or bend wire anymore. I then emulated the 8bit CPU on the original Game Boy, building it from scratch in assembly.
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