Writing an emulator: sound will do
All right, it took a few extra months, but we’re finally getting somewhere.
This article is hopefully the last one about sound. The result isn’t fantastic, but it works.
And for the time being, this will do!
Emulator
Everything you potentially wanted to know, maybe, about that GameBoy emulator I’ve been writing for the last couple years.
Writing an emulator: sound is still complicated
After a long hiatus, I went from outputting crappy sound to outputting crappy sound *in stereo*.
Would you like to know more?
Goholint is going public
The actual emulator I wrote and which prompted that series of articles on this very blog is finally functional enough that I decided to publish it on GitHub. It’s a lot more advanced than the example emulator I’m documenting here, but pretty much everything I described in emulator-related posts has been used in its making. …
Writing an emulator: sound is complicated
Do you know how sound works? Well, me neither, but I hope we can figure it out together!
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.