Notesthanks to the work of [decrazyo] thereās a piece of furniture that you can add to your Animal Crossing house that will never get old: an x86 emulator that boots Linux. As explained in the video below, this trick leverages the fact that Nintendo had already built a highly accurate Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator into Animal Crossing on the GameCube, which could be used to run a handful of classic games from within the playerās virtual living room. But it turns out that you can get that emulator to load a user-provided ROM from the GameCubeās memory card, which opens the doors to all sorts of mischief.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesInspired by the CD-ROM library feature, I decided to investigate what it would take to add a āMacintosh Gardenā drawer to the site. The goal was to allow any item in the Gardenās catalog to be loaded into the emulated Mac with one click (at least for the versions that support āThe Outside Worldā, which is most from System 7 to Mac OS 9). I reached out to the Gardenās maintainer, who was on board with the project and even provided a JSON dump of the siteās catalog of 20,000 applications and games. Building the UI was a fun exercise in making the CD-ROM drawer into a reusable component - another contribution to my collection of Classic- and Platinum-themed UI controls.FeedUnfurl
NotesSend a tweet with a short program to @AppleIIBot and your program will run on an emulated Apple II computer. The bot will tweet you back with a video your programās output!FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesI'm a Hugo Award-winning science-fiction writer, and I've been using WordStar since 1983, writing all 23 of my novels with it. If you still have questions about getting WordStar to run under Windows after reading the notes below (updated in 2015), please eUnfurl
NotesFrom a GBA emulation perspective, the games were especially interesting. The average Game Boy Advance game is extremely buggy, and the platform itself contains a number of safeguards to prevent games from crashing. As a result, emulators tend to need to be bug-compatible with the original hardware to ensure that the games actually work. However, the Classic NES Series goes above and beyond the average game in an attempt to ensure they donāt work in emulators. FeedUnfurl
NotesIf you want to try HyperCard yourself, you can download an archive containing a hard disk image with Mac OS 8 and HyperCard installed, plus the ROM image file needed for most emulators, here.FeedUnfurl
NotesWhen mine arrived, I didnāt really know what to use it for, but then it hit me: I can build an emulator box for all the NES and SNES games that I loved to play as a child.FeedUnfurl
NotesThe vector lines, which are created by aiming a beam DIRECTLY AT YOUR EYES only to be stopped by a coated piece of glass, have a completely different feel. The phosphor glows, the shots look like small stars floating across the glass, and a raster line is not to be seen. Itās an entirely different experience, and the teenagers at MAGfest had never seen it before, and unfortunately, it is well on its way out.FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"If you came here hoping to find a well executed difficulty hack for Super Mario World, a lovingly crafted graphics hack of Zelda 3 or maybe an accurate translation of a Japanese RPG, prepare to be disappointed. This site solely caters for crass mutilations that nobody else wants to deal with. Expect foul language, warped logic, and crude 8-bit nudity. Prepare to journey into worlds crafted by the mentally disturbed and chronically lazy. You have been warned."Unfurl
Notes"This is the home page of the Macintosh OS X Port of David Firth's Fantastic Atari 800 Emulator. I have ported the SDL version of the Atrari800 emulator to Mac OS X, and added a full native Cocoa interface, including Preferences, Menus, File Associations, Help and more."Unfurl
Notes"Iām really typecasting myself here. If there were an international āPerson most likely to write a Spectrum emulator in Javascriptā award, Iād have taken it for the last five years running. So here it is - probably the most stereotypical project Iāll ever come up with."Unfurl
Notes"The specs are quite powerful with an Arm9 533mHZ processor and 3D Accelerator and 64 MB of ram. Looks like the PSP, DS and even the Pandora will have a fight on."Unfurl
Notes"While browsing Flickr this afternoon, we came across a shot of a Nintendo DS running Macintosh System 6 in emulation on reader Ken Fager's Flickr stream."FeedUnfurl
Notes"This movie is essentially constructed by taking one controller and wiring it into two SNES emulators at once. The same input is used to play both games to completion."Unfurl
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