Writing a ZX Spectrum Emulator in GameMaker
So if you followed my last emulator series, you’ll know that I built up a lot of caches of shapes (characters and sprites) on demand, and then drew them when…
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 8
So in this, the last part of my Commodore 64 Emulator series, I want to talk about some of the optimisations I did to help speed things up. But before…
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 7
So in this chapter, I thought I’d tackle the tricky subject of SID chip emulation, both how I generate the sounds, and how I get them to play back in…
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 6
So, now that we have C64 sprites being rendered, how about characters? Well like sprites they are made from blocks of memory on even boundaries, all be it a lot…
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 5
In this part, I’m going to start looking at sprites, and see if there’s anything I can do in order to display “something” so I can better see games running.…
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 4
In this part, I’m going to start discussing how I handled the screen at the start of this process, and the reasons behind these choices. I said in the first part…
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 3
The next part deals with tracking down CPU bugs, and ways to log quickly, and we also take a look at C64 memory mapping.
Game In A Day
So here I’ll start linking all my #GameInADay streams, and list all the suggestions for future ones.Patreon’s will be able to vote on which one I decide to do, picked…
C64 Emulator Article Series
A series of articles about how I created a C64 emulator in GameMaker Studio