How hard is it to write an emulator?
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:13 pm
...and how many hours of work is it for a skilled coder?
Like you're not an architect unless you designed your own house... Writing an emulator seems like a right of passage for a certain type of coder, I guess.
How much work does it actually involve? Specifically I'm wondering about the esp32 type stuff. As more 8 bit emulators seem to pop up all the time.
Which is super cool.
Hypothetically, how time consuming is it?
For arguments sake, someone has already written an emulator and made the source code available. It's written for windows or arm in Java. That would be a good starting point for your own work. But if targeting esp32, then that would be Arduino/c type language
But is it like 5 years of your life? Or a couple of weekends
It's a stupid question from someone clueless. Maybe there is a forum somewhere for all the guys that make emulators, but ive never seen it talked about.
Like you're not an architect unless you designed your own house... Writing an emulator seems like a right of passage for a certain type of coder, I guess.
How much work does it actually involve? Specifically I'm wondering about the esp32 type stuff. As more 8 bit emulators seem to pop up all the time.
Which is super cool.
Hypothetically, how time consuming is it?
For arguments sake, someone has already written an emulator and made the source code available. It's written for windows or arm in Java. That would be a good starting point for your own work. But if targeting esp32, then that would be Arduino/c type language
But is it like 5 years of your life? Or a couple of weekends
It's a stupid question from someone clueless. Maybe there is a forum somewhere for all the guys that make emulators, but ive never seen it talked about.