Calling #VintageComputing #RetroComputing and #Emulator developers/enthusiasts/and so forth. I'm writing a piece about a new hardware-generated test suite for the 286:
https://github.com/SingleStepTests/80286

and I'd love to include some comments. Will you use it, and if so how? Why has the 286 proven a challenge to emulate properly, and what else stands in the way of cycle-accurate emulation?

Vintage Hardware Find Includes Time Capsule of Data - Before social media brought the Internet to the masses, and before even Napster, I... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/16/vintage-hardware-find-includes-time-capsule-of-data/ #retrocomputing #virtualization #messageboard #vaxstationii #emulator #hardware #simh #bbs #dec

PPSSPP v1.19.3 Released: https://www.ppsspp.org/news/release-1.19.3/
#linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #emulator #psp #ppsspp

Gearboy 3.7.1 (GameBoy Emulator) Released: https://github.com/drhelius/Gearboy/releases/tag/3.7.1
#linux #linuxgaming #update #release #foss #gameboy #emulator

Can I overcome fate?

This is a screenshot from a video game. The player is looking at the stats of an opponent named Garland, who is level 6. Garland has 1731 HP, 336 CP, 161 BRV, 24 ATK, 17 DEF, and 13 LUK. He is equipped with an axe and bronze armor, giving him a bravery bonus of 3. The player can advance to the next screen by selecting the "NEXT" button.

Pretending I have a 4mm thick e-Ink Macintosh Plus.

This was the best and funniest talk at the #kotlinconf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A6aLK2KznU

PPSSPP v1.19.2 is out: https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/releases/tag/v1.19.2
#linux #linuxgaming #update #release #foss #emulator #ppsspp #psp

PPSPP emulator v1.19 Released: https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/releases/tag/v1.19
#linux #linuxgaming #update #release #foss #emulator #psp #ppsspp

I sent about 1,300 words about Saturn emulation Marc's way for his piece on how to play Saturn games in 2025 — check out his full piece here:

https://retroxp.beehiiv.com/p/30-years-of-the-sega-saturn-how-to-play-saturn-games-in-2025-9091298255f67520

Linux: Betriebssystem im Excel-Tabellenblatt

Linux läuft auf ziemlich vielen Geräten. Nun haben Bastler gezeigt: Es läuft auch als Minimal-Betriebssystem in Excel.

https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-Betriebssystem-im-Excel-Tabellenblatt-10371622.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

From left to right an RCA COSMAC ELF, Arduino based Altair 8800, a PiDP-8i and an SBC-6120 PDP-8e on a chip with a pocket chip.

https://icm.museum/join.html

RetroArch v1.21.0 Released: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/releases/tag/v1.21.1
#linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #release #retroarch #libretro #emulation #emulator

For all of you MacOS users out there, I have a question regarding emulators to play old video games.

What emulator would you recommend that I could install that I could quickly and easily play Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar on my Mac?

What all is involved exactly and do I need to own the game in some form or from somewhere, or how would I go about doing this?

Gearboy 3.7.0 (GB Emulator) Released: https://github.com/drhelius/Gearboy/releases/tag/3.7.0
#linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #release #gaming #emulator #gearboy #gameboy

#StreamReport

Last night on stream, we hit four major milestones in my my 6502 #emulator:

1. We got the clock code working, so instructions actuary get executed

2. We got our first instruction actually executed. ldx!

3. We.... Ran our first program! A simple thing with a very limited number of instructions, but it was a program and it executed to completion!

4. Implemented all of the remaining instructions!

That's a lot of stuff done on one stream, eh?

Thursday we'll see about wiring things up to a gui; the little TUI I have is great, but it'd be nice to be able to interact with the emulator more, push and poke, things like that, and I think the best way to accomplish that is going to be an immediate mode gui. Probably imgui for now, with the understanding that we'll need something else when we start implementing actual graphics hardware for the emulator.

#zig remains the greatest language of all time. Zero barriers between me and getting things done.

Here's a link to the main commit from last night: https://codeberg.org/b4ux1t3/zigsty-five-oh-two/commit/bcb265de6a3d789bfa01349a5ceaa82e29a5e579

That looks like a nice projekt. Well done!

#RetroBoy is a cycle-accurate #GameBoy #emulator written in #Rust. It uses wasm-pack to translate the Rust code into #WebAssembly so it can be played on the web. The web frontend then uses Web Audio API and HTML Canvas for audio and graphics

https://github.com/smparsons/retroboy

windows95 - an Electron based Windows 95 emulator, which lets you launch old applications and games created to the operating system. https://archivegame.org/windows95/ #game #emulator #virtual #linux #osx #windows

I finally found a multi-emulator, an emulator that has many emulator cores within it, that has a game screen that TalkBack can get image descriptions from! And everything seems to be labeled well, too!
Check out "ClassicBoyPro Game Emulator"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portableandroid.classicboy
#gaming #ClassicBoy #emulator #emulation #accessibility #Android #blind

Made this issue for Lemuroid, which is an Android app that contains lots and lots of emulators, like Retroarch but uses a simple, Android-native GUI. Just, the game view can't be focused with TalkBack, so no image descriptions.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/Lemuroid/issues/1014