Gameboy emulator written in Go
a project by mikeletux
Updated about 2 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️. 1 follower.

Project Description

This project aims to write a minimal Gameboy emulator using Go programming language.

Goal for this Hackweek

The goals is to implement a minimal PPU (Pixel Processing Unit) using Go and it's bindings for SDL2. CPU is already implemented although it would need a little more testing.

If possible, another goal would be to meet engineers interested in the project and collaborate together add-emoji

Resources

The Github repo where all the code is -> https://github.com/mikeletux/goboy

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Looking for hackers with the skills:

golang sdl unit-testing cpu emulator

This project is part of:

Hack Week 23

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  • over 1 year ago: atgracey liked this project.
  • about 2 years ago: jgoldschmidt liked this project.
  • about 2 years ago: mikeletux disliked this project.
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  • about 2 years ago: mikeletux started this project.
  • about 2 years ago: mikeletux liked this project.
  • about 2 years ago: mikeletux added keyword "golang" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: mikeletux added keyword "sdl" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: mikeletux added keyword "unit-testing" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: mikeletux added keyword "cpu" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: mikeletux added keyword "emulator" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: mikeletux originated this project.


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