gpiemu
Bare metal emulators and launcher for retroflag GPI v1 (by Reesy1979)
bmc64
A bare metal Commodore 64 emulator for the Raspberry Pi with true 50hz/60hz smooth scrolling, low input latency and better audio/video sync. (by randyrossi)
| gpiemu | bmc64 | |
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| 2 | 8 | |
| 4 | 466 | |
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| 5.0 | 1.6 | |
| 12 months ago | 30 days ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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gpiemu
Posts with mentions or reviews of gpiemu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
bmc64
Posts with mentions or reviews of bmc64.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-15.
- Bare Metal Emulation on the Raspberry Pi – Commodore 64
- Bare Metal Emulators and launcher for RetroFlag GPI v1
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Mister FPGA: recreate classic computers using modern hardware
Latency.
It doesn't matter how fast your emulator is, throughput-wise. Your operating system (and other stuff) sits between it and output and input devices. And usually adds multiple frames worth of latency. There's ways to improve this, certainly, but you won't get that experience "out of the box."
Now, it's also possible to accomplish this by running emulators "bare metal" or "close to the metal" like my friend Randy did with his BMC64 project: https://github.com/randyrossi/bmc64
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Looking for best options for C64 game coding
Check out BMC64, it runs on a Raspberry Pi and you can attach a real C64 keyboard and joystick ports to its GPIO if you feel inclined to. I have a C128DCR keyboard attached to mine with two joy ports and real C64 joysticks.
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Emulation
BMC64 for Raspberry Pi. I haven't tried it, but it sounds very cool.
- Commander X16
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Joystick recommendations
https://github.com/randyrossi/bmc64/tree/master#gpio-configurations
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repurposing a C64: how to make an image that boot into C64 emu on a Pi?
Open an issue for that: https://github.com/randyrossi/bmc64/issues
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gpiemu and bmc64 you can also consider the following projects:
circle - A C++ bare metal environment for Raspberry Pi with USB (32 and 64 bit)
FoenixIDE - Development and Debugging Suite for the C256 Foenix Family of Computers
morfe - custom 65c816/m68k computer emulator in Go