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In the previous blog post , I described my work on the Nintendo Game Boy emulator, called Coffee GB . To this day, it remains one of my most beloved projects. Every year or two, I spend some time tweaking it, adding features or fixing compatibility with particularly stubborn ROMs.

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Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)

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For me, the most favorite type of a computer program is an emulator. Being able to run code from a completely different hardware architecture always seemed like a magic. The old computers are great on their own, so this kind of connection between historic machines and the modern computing environment feels almost like…