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A Gameboy emulator written in pure Lua

Shown by zeta0134 on Apr 10, 2017. Click the card to turn it over.

136points

18comments

#292of 2,242 in 2017

Top 14%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

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3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.

Idea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against

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Modular design; the core emulator can be reused as a library.
From 2 comments
- I've been following the development of this for quite a while, and one feature that is not erm, featured, is that the actual emulator itself is composed of isolated modules. This…
  cromo on HN
- I don't see why not! The release itself uses Love2D just because that's easy to run on most machines, but the gameboy module (in the /gameboy folder) has no non-Lua dependencies…
  zeta0134 on HN
Pure Lua core is portable to other projects.
From 1 comment
- This is really neat to see in Lua. The first(?) issue on the project highlights this nicely: https://github.com/zeta0134/LuaGB/issues/1 I constantly underestimate the reach a…
  raker on HN

Not the fastest; some games are slow.
From 1 comment
- One day when I was really bored in modded Minecraft, I thought it would be a neat idea to see how far I could get writing a Gameboy emulator in ComputerCraft. That idea fell…
  zeta0134 on HN

Headless driver for testing.
From 1 comment
- This release does, yes. The actual emulation of the system is straight Lua and does not require Löve at all. You could run the emulator completely headless (as I was pestering…
  cromo on HN
Support for LuaJIT.
From 1 comment
- Speaking of, what's the status of LuaJIT?
  kusmi on HN

Can it be used as a World of Warcraft extension?
From 1 comment
- how "pure" is this. Can this be integrated somehow as a world of warcraft extension, interface modules there are written in lua as well.
  Sunset on HN
What is the maintenance strategy?
From 1 comment
- what will be your strategy for maintaining this library?
  mrcactu5 on HN