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The key thing is that I need to be able to suspend 3-5 layers deep into the call frame. The instruction dispatcher calls into an instruction which calls into a bus memory read func…

They're really incredibly useful for writing emulators. You have to simulate 3-8 processors all running in parallel, but doing so with locks and mutexes tens of millions of times a…

Frame-skipping is just a speed hack of skipping rendering every other frame or so, and makes games very unenjoyable to play. It won't help with input lag at all.

That is true. There are however techniques software emulators can use like run-ahead that can get you lower latency than even the original hardware on a PC: https://near.sh/article…

There's both a cost and a speed barrier to it. FPGAs are often used to design, simulate, and test modern circuits at sub-realtime speeds. No amount of FPGAs will get you a PS2 emul…

It is, but these cores are almost exclusively not being done that way. Not yet at least. I hope that they will be, that would be really awesome. I paid $1200 last year for the SNES…

In latency and power usage, yes. In compatibility and accuracy, no. Both are Turing complete, so there's nothing you can do with one that you can't do with the other. If you take t…

It is indeed an amazing project, especially its open source nature. It provides some impressive power savings and latency reductions that are very hard to match with general purpos…

Same story here. But in my case, Zoloft gave me really bad tinnitus that persisted even after stopping. I switched to Intuniv that got rid of the panic attacks but not the depressi…

> Therefore, the choice of which conversation, which comment, is entirely yours. It's not that simple though. You're likely to be part of a broader community and simply deciding to…

Different people follow for different things. Some people like seeing that other stuff. It would be very helpful if Twitter let accounts tag tweets into categories, and let people …

Oh, it even has a datasheet! Thanks, that's amazing! The missing SEV instruction could have been aliased to SEP #$40. The only thing missing to produce a working replica today (in …

On a related note, I had always wished we at least got a complete PDF specification for the unreleased 65832, a 32-bit 6502 core. I'd love to implement it just for the novelty, eve…

What would be wrong with blocking the entire /32 if you know the owner of it is using it in such a way?

> Its good to know you got 1M unique visitors last month, but I don't need to know I got 1,214,551 unique visitors. All analytic packages have problems like this. The numbers vary …

There's a magic point on YouTube at 10 minutes that lets creators insert ads in the middle of their videos, so they all stretch out the content for that purpose. It's very obnoxiou…

You can to varying degrees, yes. There's a barcode scanner, an exercise bike, a baseball bat, and more. I designed higan around a modular tree structure so that you can just create…

Hi all, thank you for sharing this article here! It is technically a "laymen's" version of https://byuu.org/articles/edge-of-emulation (submitted here earlier), meant for a wider a…

Oh, sorry I forgot I also had user-agent checks in the code, good catch! archive.is checking was based on IP ranges, since they spoof their user agents as Chrome and use proxies. I…

Hello, I removed the archive.is check, and requested the entire site to be crawled, which is now done. The entire site is mirrored here: http://archive.is/byuu.org I also sent an e…

I'll take my leave from HN as well now. It's truly been an honor! I've always greatly appreciated the links to my articles shared here, and the discussions with everyone on these a…