binjgb VS SkyEmu

This is using my gameboy emulator, binjgb[0], on the website! (well one of my gameboy emulators, heh [1][2]) It's been used as the emulator for GB Studio for a little while now, but I don't know how often people embed it in their websites, so it's really cool to see.

[0] https://github.com/binji/binjgb

Nice work, looks great! I wrote a blog post about the way I did mine a few years back: https://binji.github.io/posts/binjgb-rewind/. You can play with the web version at https://binji.github.io/binjgb/. Reading it back, I was pretty concerned about keeping the size down, but also on reducing dependencies, so I spent a lot of time trying to have a fancy circular buffer.

Big fan of this author's work.

They have a Gameboy emulator written in C, which can be compiled to WASM and run in the browser.

https://github.com/binji/binjgb

I learned a lot from the code.

Also I love this project with a bunch of demos in hand-written WebAssembly Text (WAT) format, which is like low-level Lisp that works only with raw memory, numbers, and minimal syntax.

https://github.com/binji/raw-wasm

Then I discovered the same author is quite active in the WebAssembly ecosystem, including specs and tooling. Fascinating stuff!

https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec

https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt

Recently I fell into a wormhole, or rather time sink, playing with a Gameboy emulator that runs in the browser.

https://github.com/binji/binjgb

There's something so satisfying about a virtual machine that fits in a ~106K WASM file, that can play hundreds of classic games like Teris and Super Mario Bros (via ROM collections on Internet Archive). I don't usually play games, but this emulator is so cute and fun, I keep coming back to waste time on it.

Actually, PICO-8 was the last time I felt this kind of child-like joy about a computer.

I get a similar feeling from this Infinite Mac project.

https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac

It's so pleasing to see a running Macintosh in the browser. That interface feels like an old friend. The underlying VM, BasiliskII, is a little less than 1MB WASM file. Amazing!

From the entertaining article, I learned about "retrocomputing". OK, so that's what I'm into, haha.

Want to create Your own music cartridge (no problem :) You can use our lsdpack-kit constructor. Multiple rom support. But keep in mind that this is still in development.Custom styled HTML emulator based on binjgb could be found here.

Skyemu has a Web version that's usable on Android. Other than that, I don't think there's any new one.

The autogenerated source code for web.skyemu.app is also open source, and located in the following branch https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/tree/gh-pages

I just added a Arm/Intel universal build to the release. You can download it here: https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/releases/download/v2/SkyEmu-v2-macOS-universal.dmg

It is possible to make web applications in C++. Here is a web-based Game Boy emulator done in C. But it's a hell of a lot harder than doing it in a language designed to make web applications.

SkyEmu (https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu)

Despite it being a new emulator, it features high accuracy and compatibility allowing it to play difficult to emulate games that established emulators like mGBA and VBA-M struggle with. On top of accurate emulation. SkyEmu supports the following major features:

SkyEMU, the GB/GBC/GBA emulator project that I have been working on for the last six months was recently able to 100% pass all 1920 of Endrift's GBA suites timing tests. I believe this is the first time this level of timing accurate emulation of the GBA has been achieved and I wanted to share my excitement with the community.