Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32

Re:Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32 by msephton on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:30PM (#34539812)

Galaga is one of the most iconic arcade machines of all times. It has been remade and emulated many times. So far the cheapest and smallest system able to do a faithful emulation of the original arcade machine was the raspberry pi. But even the much cheaper ESP32 should be able to easily emulate a machine from the early 80's, shouldn't it?

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Re:Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32 by buescher on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:20PM (#34540796)

The ESP32 is very roughly equivalent to a Pentium 90, right? So I would expect early 80s arcade emulation to be marginal to good. You could get DOS and Windows packages of emulated arcade games in the early-mid 90s.

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Re:Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32 by MegaDeKay on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:25PM (#34540864)

The top level comment by msephton is taken directly from the first paragraph found in the link without attribution. Of course the text in the linked project goes on to explain further.

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Re:Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32 by msephton on Friday January 27, 2023 @12:20PM (#34548758)

I find it funny that I'm getting downvoted for quoting the article. I should have used quotation marks!

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Re:Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32 by pjmlp on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:42AM (#34544293)

More like a beefed up PC 1512 due to its memory.

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Re:Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32 by SillyUsername on Friday January 27, 2023 @07:07PM (#34553540)

Realistically it'd be closest to an Amiga 1200 with small accelerator + extra RAM, that's about an order of ~5 times slower than a P90.

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