Hacker News with Generative AI: Emulation

Why is Apple Rosetta 2 fast? (2022) (wordpress.com)
Rosetta 2 is remarkably fast when compared to other x86-on-ARM emulators.
Tsugaru OS – A New Free FM-Towns OS (github.com/captainys)
The goal of this project is to write a copyright-free FM Towns OS to run free games and the re-released games, or why not a brand-new game for FM Towns. without concerns of violating copyrights of the files included in the original Towns OS.
Using QEMU-user emulation to reverse engineer binaries (2021) (ariadne.space)
Atari ST Programming: Hatari, STOS and Turbo C (retrogamecoders.com)
Install Hatari Atari ST emulator so we can program games for the Atari ST
ScummVM adds support for Castle Master (1990) (scummvm.org)
Castle Master, the haunting conclusion to the Freescape engine saga, is now ready for public testing!
SNES and Playstation Cubic Adpcm Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)
It’s been a minute, and I haven’t done a whole lot of emulation work recently, but this is a topic I’ve wanted to do a short post about for a while: a really simple audio enhancement for SNES and PlayStation emulation that works surprisingly well with some games. It’s more noticeable for SNES, but there are some PlayStation games that benefit from this as well!
Windows 95 Running in the Browser (copy.sh)
Winlator is an Android application that lets you to run Windows (x86_64) apps (github.com/brunodev85)
Winlator is an Android application that lets you to run Windows (x86_64) applications with Wine and Box86/Box64.
Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X (2023) (fabulous.systems)
In my previous article, I described how I managed to install Windows 2000 in DOSBox-X.
Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical games online (arstechnica.com)
Plastic – A Modern NES Emulator That Works with EGUI and TUI (github.com/Amjad50)
plastic is a NES emulator built from scratch using Rust.
Show HN: No Setup Needed Play NES, SNES, Sega, Atari Games Directly in Browser (weplayretro.games)
MicroPython Playground in WebAssembly Unicorn.js CPU Emulator (micropython.org)
Nintendo Museum seems to emulate games on a PC (twitter.com)
DuckStation (github.com/stenzek)
DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability.
Boxedwine is an emulator that runs Windows applications (boxedwine.org)
Boxedwine is an emulator that runs Windows applications.
Nintendo isn't just attacking emulators [video] (youtube.com)
Nintendo's Legal Hitlist Grows (fandomwire.com)
Nintendo’s aggressive legal strategy has once again claimed another victim in its ongoing war against emulation. Following its earlier victory against Yuzu, Ryujinx has now ceased development after its lead developer, gdkchan, was reportedly offered an agreement by the company to stop the project.
Nintendo Kills Ryujinx After Yuzu (boilingsteam.com)
“gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered an agreement to stop working on the project, remove the organization and all related assets he’s in control of.”
DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support (github.com/joncampbell123)
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Ryujinx – Nintendo Switch Emulator archive site (ryujinx-emulator.com)
Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator for Windows, Mac and Linux devices.
Dmg-acid2: The Acid2 test, now for the original Game Boy (github.com/mattcurrie)
dmg-acid2 is a test for developers of Game Boy (DMG) emulators to verify their emulation of the Game Boy's Pixel Processing Unit (PPU).
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs (phoronix.com)
As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts.
Ruffle - Flash Emulator: Optimisations, Text Input, Tab Focusing and More (ruffle.rs)
We really should start making these posts more often, because phew there's a lot that happened in the last 8 months! There's so many improvements to Ruffle, that we really can't do it justice with an easy summary here. This blog post is going to be a little long, but the highlights are at the top!
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs (phoronix.com)
As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts.
Infinite Mac – classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases and software (infinitemac.org)
Infinite Mac is a project by Mihai Parparita to make classic Mac and NeXT emulation easily accessible.
FEX 2409 – benchmarks are upwards of 10% faster (fex-emu.com)
Dolphin Progress Release 2407 and 2409 (dolphin-emu.org)
Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation (themaister.net)
Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V (box86.org)