Here’s What ‘Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ Looks Like in 4K
Nintendo’s latest hit gets ported to the PC with 4K graphics with the help of the Cemu 1.7.3 emulator. Continue reading Here’s What ‘Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ Looks Like in 4K
Category Archives: emulation
Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms?
Slashdot reader dryriver writes:
We live in a computing world where the OS you use — Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, others — often determines what software can and cannot be run on a given electronic device. (Let us pretend for a moment that emu… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms?
ENIAC: The Way We Were
When I first got interested in computers, it was all but impossible for an individual to own a computer outright. Even a “small” machine cost a fortune not to mention requiring specialized power, cooling, and maintenance. Then there started to be some rumblings of home computers (like the Mark 8 we recently saw a replica of) and the Altair 8800 burst on the scene. By today’s standards, these are hardly computers. Even an 8-bit Arduino can outperform these old machines.
As much disparity as there is between an Altair 8800 and a modern personal computer, looking even further back is …read more
Fixing Bugs In A 37 Year Old Apple II Game
Emulators are a great way to reminisce about games and software from yesteryear. [Jorj Bauer] found himself doing just that back in 2002, when they decided to boot up Three Mile Island for the Apple II. It played well enough, but for some reason, crashed instantly if you happened to press the ‘7’ key. This was a problem — the game takes hours to play, and ‘7’ is the key for saving and restoring your progress. In 2002, [Jorj] was content to put up with this. But finally, enough was enough – [Jorj] set out to fix the bug in …read more
Shmoocon 2017: On Not Reverse Engineering Through Emulation
Right now, I’m at Shmoocon, and it’s living up to all expectations. That’s a tall order — last year, the breakout talk was from [Travis Goodspeed] on his efforts to reverse engineer the firmware for a cheap Chinese radio. Four people in the room for that talk last year bought the radio on Amazon, and now there’s a legitimate open source project dedicated to building firmware and tools to support this radio.
Now that [Travis] has a few compatriots working on firmware for this radio, he has the same challenges as any other team. The project needs unit tests, and …read more
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Portable RetroPie Builds on the Shoulders of Giants
For anyone wanting to get that shot of nostalgia without the hassle of finding an NES Classic, the Retropie project is a great starting point. Of course, it’s not too noteworthy to grab a Raspberry Pi, throw a pre-built distribution on it, and plug in an SNES to USB converter. What is noteworthy, however, is building a Retropie that’s portable and that has the quality and polish of the latest build from [fancymenofcornwood].
For starters, the laser cut wood case was custom-made. From there, all of the PCBs were fitted including specific ones to handle each set of buttons (complete …read more
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Amstrad on an FPGA
If you are from the United States and of a certain age, it is very likely you owned some form of Commodore computer. Outside the US, that same demographic was likely to own an Amstrad. The Z80-based computers were well known for game playing. [Freemac] implemented a working Amstrad CPC6128 using a Xilinx FPGA on a NEXYS2 demo board.
The wiki posting is a bit long, but it covers how to duplicate the feat, and also gives technical details about the design. It also outlines the development process used ranging from starting with a simple Z80 emulation and moving on …read more
Anti-Emulation Tricks on GBA-Ported NES Games
Emulation is a difficult thing to do, particularly when you’re trying to emulate a complex platform like a game console, with little to no public documentation available. Often, you’ll have to figure things out by brute force and dumb luck, and from time to time everything will come unstuck when a random piece of software throws up an edge case that brings everything screeching to a halt.
The Classic NES series was a handful of Nintendo Entertainment System games ported to the Game Boy Advance in the early 2000s. What makes them unique is a series of deliberately obtuse programming …read more
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Delta Emulator Will Let You Game Boy, SNES Games on Your iPhone
It’s coming soon, and its developer claims you won’t need a jailbroken iPhone. Continue reading Delta Emulator Will Let You Game Boy, SNES Games on Your iPhone
Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate To Bring Windows 10, x86 Emulation To Snapdragon Processors
An anonymous reader quotes a report from AnandTech: Today at Microsoft’s WinHEC event in Shenzhen, China, the company announced that it’s working with Qualcomm to bring the full Windows 10 experience to future devices powered by Snapdragon processors. … Continue reading Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate To Bring Windows 10, x86 Emulation To Snapdragon Processors