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The Story of NESticle, the Ambitious Emulator That Redefined Retro Gaming

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Post by ubertaco »

shasheene wrote: post #8

It would be really cool to read interview with the authors of other great emulators of the era too. My personal favorite was NO$GMB ("nocash gameboy"), which was written in x86 assembly for DOS and allowed a 33MHz 486DX to emulate a Gameboy Color at multiples of full speed. Just the interface gives me waves of nostalgia :) The author, Martin Korth is suprisingly still very active in the emulation scene [1], and still…

Oh wow, that takes me back. The section for NO$GMB even says:

  The Windows version is for Windows 95/98/NT/2000, it requires a rather fast computer (at least 66MHz suggested), it is including a typical windows user interface (new in this version), and it is probably easier to install, and more compatible to newer windows versions.

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Post by torso »

shasheene wrote: post #8

It would be really cool to read interview with the authors of other great emulators of the era too. My personal favorite was NO$GMB ("nocash gameboy"), which was written in x86 assembly for DOS and allowed a 33MHz 486DX to emulate a Gameboy Color at multiples of full speed. Just the interface gives me waves of nostalgia :) The author, Martin Korth is suprisingly still very active in the emulation scene [1], and still…

I wrote the Game Lad emulator more than a decade ago. NO$GMB was kind of the biggest rival in emulation accuracy. Eventually I reached a point where there were games that worked in Game Lad and not in NO$GMB and vice versa. Great times.

Edit: Just checked. Last version released on 2001-10-05.

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Post by tbyehl »

OedipusRex wrote: post #13

I knew Don "MindRape" Moore personally, he passed away pretty recently but he was a big influence in my life as I got into computers. Crazy cool dude, gave himself a "snake tongue" with a pair of scissors by himself!

I was weirded out by the Donnie quotes. He'd been gone a year when the article was published but the way they were presented you'd think they were freshly sourced.

He was a great guy and brilliant co-worker. Sorely missed.

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