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Re: EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators

#51

Post by rodri042 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 5:43 PM UTC

jweather wrote: post #50

This is so cool! Having a ton of fun. Only place I got stuck for a while is on instructions adding extra cycles - didn't see the note at the bottom of instructions.md. Did I miss a way to open documentation in the left pane? I keep taking screenshots of the docs that I can view on another monitor while I'm coding.

There's a "Pin left" button on each editor tab, yeah

Re: EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators

#52

Post by jweather » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

rodri042 wrote: post #51

jweather wrote: post #50

This is so cool! Having a ton of fun. Only place I got stuck for a while is on instructions adding extra cycles - didn't see the note at the bottom of instructions.md. Did I miss a way to open documentation in the left pane? I keep taking screenshots of the docs that I can view on another monitor while I'm coding.

There's a "Pin left" button on each editor tab, yeah

Aha, thank you for that. I don't see an "unpin" though, just close. Sometimes I need to refer back to the chat messages as well. I know, now I'm just being picky.

Re: EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators

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Post by ece » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

zachmane wrote: post #45

ece wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fun programming games are Human Resource Machine and 7 Billion Humans. https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Mac... https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/

I find turing complete (game) to be really fun too.

I'm a fan of robot odyssey.

Re: EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators

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Post by jweather » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 1:45 AM UTC

Unexpected side benefit: this is teaching more about the ES6 module and class stuff that I haven't gotten around to using up on. Will be very useful on my next large-scale JS project.