Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)

Re:Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (... by leggomylibro on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @01:58PM (#17136385)

Well I've already gotten simple 2D games working in bare-metal ARM with OLED and TFT displays, it's more the emulation aspect of things that is intimidating.

ARM Cortex-M cores are also a bit different from the Application-class processors used in boards like the Raspberry Pi. They are closer to an Arduino than a "real computer".

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Re:Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (... by pjmlp on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:15PM (#17136544)

Yeah, I guess I misunderstood you.

That is how we did 8 and 16 bit coding on home micros back in the day. :)

My favourite SOC is the ESP32, but I guess it already has too much hardware to emulate and isn't an ARM anyway.

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Re:Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (... by leggomylibro on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:30PM (#17136695)

Haha, no worries - embedded stuff sometimes feels so confusing that I think I misunderstand myself most of the time.

Yeah, I've wanted to learn more about the ESP32 - it seems like people have done some really cool stuff with it and it looks like you get a lot of power and connectivity.

But I'll bet you can empathize with not having enough hours in the day!

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Re:Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (... by pjmlp on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:40PM (#17136818)

Yup, my github repo is full of useless, unfinished stuff. :)

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