I thought it was about time I added the Space Invaders “emulator” (binary port?) to my website, as I’d not touched it in over 3 years. Most of the work to get it running was done, with just sound and display rotation left to add. While mulling over the tricky display code I [...]
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Space Invaders emulator
Published December 10th, 2009 in Emulator, Release and SAM Coupe. 0 CommentsThis will probably be my last emulator for a while so I can return to normal projects. I’d wanted to emulate the Apple 1 for quite a while, and didn’t think it should take more than a couple of hours to make a usable emulator.
The Apple 1 is a surprisingly simple device, with 1MHz [...]
This emulator started as a quick test of my 6502 core, to see if it could run the Orao ROMs. I half expected it to fail due to lack of decimal mode or interrupt support, neither of which were implemented in the SID player core. It took just 20 minutes of hacking the [...]
I’ve spent most of the last week porting Tomaz Kac’s Galaksija emulator from Spectrum to SAM, with version 1.0 now available on my site.
Basic SAM support was trivial, requiring just an OUT to LMPR to page in the ROMs, and another OUT to VMPR to set video mode 1. The Spectrum key matrix is [...]
I’ve spent the last few days updating FdInstall, which is used to install/uninstall/upgrade fdrawcmd.sys. It needed a few improvements for Vista support, which gave the perfect excuse for a complete revamp.
The original installer was designed to have minimal dependencies, be simple to use, and avoid reboots where possible. I went for a single [...]
