SGDK VS freebee

Examples: - Someone I know created machine-optimized library in c and asm to accelerate compression, erasure coding, and encryption on Intel Xeon CPUs (https://github.com/intel/isa-l) which runs those ops WAY faster than the standard linux libraries. - My friend is making a retro SEGA genesis game using a C and asm dev kit (https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK)

Genesis fortunately has a really mature homebrew SDK that uses C https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK . People have made plenty of homebrew titles over the years for these consoles and distributed them freely, sold the roms, or programmed new cartridges.

If you are specifically looking into the Genesis you should look into SGDK, the sega development toolkit https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK.

There's a lot of retro dev happening now across the board. SGDK has led to a big interest in making Genesis/Megadrive games. Jo Engine is increasing interest in the Saturn, etc. I'm also attempting to help contribute by writing a book on Neo Geo development (it has a long ways to go)

https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK

https://www.jo-engine.org/

a Saturn homebrew showcase - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqKKExcTaKo

https://neobook.mattgreer.dev

Could this be useful from the megadrive SDK? https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK/wiki/Tuto-Maths

I had the same idea for the same reason. I have not started anything yet but I was going to try developing a Sega Genesis/Megadrive game using an SDK like https://github.com/Stephane-D/sgdk

The MD version was developed with SGDK .

If you want to try out a UNIX PC, the FreeBee emulator can be used with two different hard drive images that have been made available. Though you will have to compile FreeBee as there aren’t any packaged releases.

I just got back into it a year or two ago when I came across the FreeBee emulator which let me relive the experience. Then a friend hooked me up with some real hardware after I did some work on the emulator. Very helpful to have real hardware for reference!