wedNESday #4

Posted on Wed 25 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python

Blender Brain

Blender Brain*

Split and Share

I'm splitting the project wedNESday into a guide project. Unfortunelly, it does not have a catch name yet. The goal of this sidekick project is to serve as a lighthouse for thouse who attempt to create an emulator. It's filled with abstract test case scenarios …


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wedNESday #3

Posted on Wed 18 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python

Goals and Detours

One of goals this week was to create a fake PPU, so that we can start testing it and playing with it and create a Pull Request in the py65 project with some tests. Although, while writing some tests in order to reach the first goal, I …


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wedNESday #2

Posted on Wed 11 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python

Keep up

I've refactored the tests and extracted to CPU6502Spec, and them start playing with py65. Didn't take long to have most of the test working. Now I have the same test spec running with either ApplyPy or Py65 6502, and that's amazing. Although, let's keep in mind that the …


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wedNESday #1

Posted on Wed 04 January 2017 in nes • Tagged with nes, emulator, python

Forewords

I've been hacking the NES for quite a long time, and since them, I've always been asked for writing an emulator. Although it was never a priority, everytime a question like that stands, I usually answer: "Why not?".

Let's think over. Why should I, and why you should to …


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