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A mysterious hacking group has compromised the server infrastructure of a popular Android emulator and has delivered malware to a handful of victims across Asia in a highly-targeted supply chain attack. ZDNet reports: The attack was discovered by Slova… Continue reading Hacker Group Inserted Malware In NoxPlayer Android Emulator
Let’s be honest, building a home arcade cabinet isn’t exactly the challenge it once was. There’s plenty of kits out there that do all the hard work for you, and they even sell some pretty passable turn-key units at Walmart …read more
Continue reading 3D Printed Pi Arcade is an Emulation Horn of Plenty
Microsoft has made available two different Windows 10 test builds today, one of which includes the promised x64 app emulation for Arm, among other features. ZDNet reports: The RS_Prerelease build 21277 — which ultimately is expected to be designated a… Continue reading Microsoft’s Latest Windows 10 Test Builds Includes Promised x64 Arm Emulation
If you wanted me to demo CP/M running on an emulated Altair 8800, I’d pull out a tiny board from my pocket. You might wonder how I wound up with an Altair 8800 that runs CP/M (even WordStar), that fits in your pocket and cost less than $10. Turns out …read more
Continue reading ESP32 Altair Emulator Gets Split Personality
Here at Hackaday HQ we’re no strangers to vintage game emulation. New versions of old consoles and arcade cabinets frequently make excellent fodder for clever hacks to cram as much functionality as possible into tiny modern microcontrollers. We’ve covered [rossumur]’s hacks before, but the ESP_8-bit is a milestone in comprehensive …read more
If you haven’t heard from other websites yet, earlier this year a leak of various Nintendo intellectual properties surfaced on the Internet. This included prototype software dating back to the Game Boy, as well as Verilog files for systems up to the Nintendo 64, GameCube and Wii. This leak seems …read more
Continue reading No, The Nintendo Leak Won’t Help Emulator Developers, And Here’s Why
Today if you wanted a little gadget to sit on your shelf and let you play classic games from the early console era, you’d likely reach for the Raspberry Pi. With slick emulator front-ends like RetroPie and DIY kits available on Amazon, you don’t even need to be a technical …read more
Slashdot reader thereitis shares a report from Ars Technica that “delves into the reversing community’s efforts to produce usable C source code from N64 game binaries.” Here’s an excerpt: Early this week, with little warning, the Internet was graced wi… Continue reading Beyond Emulation: the Massive Effort To Reverse-Engineer N64 Source Code
The developers of the open-source QEMU (Quick EMUlator) emulator, which can run programs on various architectures such as ARM and RISC-V, have released version 5.0. Slashdot reader syn3rg writes: Hot on the heels of the 4.0 release (from a major releas… Continue reading QEMU Version 5.0.0 Released
Custom arcade machines have always been a fairly common project in the hacker and maker circles, but they’ve really taken off with the advent of the Raspberry Pi and turn-key controller kits. With all the internals neatly sorted, the only thing you need to figure out is the cabinet itself. …read more
Continue reading 3D Print Your Way to a Bartop Arcade Cabinet