Writing an emulator: sound is complicated
Do you know how sound works? Well, me neither, but I hope we can figure it out together!
Emulator
Everything you potentially wanted to know, maybe, about that GameBoy emulator I’ve been writing for the last couple years.
Writing an emulator: scrolling at last
A quick wrap-up of the last article, with bonus GIFs of the final result.
Writing an emulator: the first (real) pixel
Another article that took longer than I planned because of palettes, but that I tried softening with more pictures, and actual screenshots this time!
Writing an emulator: the first pixel
A much longer — though heavily illustrated — read built on top of the previous article’s code, in which we finally get to show tiles on a low-tech display.
Writing an emulator: memory management
Where I try using pretty animations to distract you from the fact I’ve put a lot of effort into turning a program that crashes into one that just hangs.
Writing an emulator: the first steps
A promising start in which, after about 2000 words, I finally get to execute literally three bytes of machine code.
Writing an emulator: it’s the journey that counts!
TL;DR: I started writing a Game Boy emulator in Go in June 2018 and since then, at least three distinct people have expressed polite interest in the details. I hope to show how it’s done, in mildly-to-heavily technical terms. It’s going to take a while but I hope it turns out marginally informative.