Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript
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Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript
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Re: Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript
#2Since it doesn't seem to be linked from the main page, this appears to be the source code (GPL):
Re: Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript
#3This seems to get posted every few months. I guess people don't notice the search field at the bottom of the page.
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#4On the one hand, this is pretty cool. On the other hand, I'm not sure the best argument for "look how far JavaScript has come" is to use it to do things that native code was doing 13 years ago. On the third hand, this has been around for like a year now. I'm fairly shocked that Nintendo hasn't come down on him yet for hosting commercial ROMs in this thing, they have a history of non-tolerance of these sorts of things.
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#5First time I see this thinking JS has come very far.
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#6Re: Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript
#7On the one hand, this is pretty cool. On the other hand, I'm not sure the best argument for "look how far JavaScript has come" is to use it to do things that native code was doing 13 years ago. On the third hand, this has been around for like a year now. I'm fairly shocked that Nintendo hasn't come down on him yet for hosting commercial ROMs in this thing, they have a history of non-tolerance of these sorts of things…
On the fourth hand, it has an audio synthesis core that samples at 4194304 Hertz that's way more accurate than what GBC emulators had 13 years ago.
Re: Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript
#8On the one hand, this is pretty cool. On the other hand, I'm not sure the best argument for "look how far JavaScript has come" is to use it to do things that native code was doing 13 years ago. On the third hand, this has been around for like a year now. I'm fairly shocked that Nintendo hasn't come down on him yet for hosting commercial ROMs in this thing, they have a history of non-tolerance of these sorts of things…
The spotlight here goes to the browser, and what this means to it's future. Not what you can do with native code.
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#9it run extremely slow on my celeron SU2300 @ 1.2GHz, 8gb ram, google chrome @ ubuntu 12.04
not playable
Re: Gameboy color emulator entirely in Javascript
#10Unfortunately, LSDJ is unusable as you can't press A and the arrow keys at the same time.