sprocketnes
Games
emulator
SHOW HN2013
125points
27comments
#174of 1,739 in 2013
Top 11%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Execution: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, concise, readable code good as a Rust example
From 2 comments
Looks pretty clean and concise, yet reasonably readable. Cool to see this kinds of language demos.
zobzu on HNLove it :-) I'm really looking forward to reading the code.
fzzzy on HN
Objections
Only supports the basic NES memory map, so it is very incomplete
From 2 comments
So... how much of the NES does this emulate? As I understand it, it's pretty easy to get a basic 6502 core and a scanline renderer together enough to handle, say, Super Mario…
thristian on HNIt's very early. You're right that it supports only the very basic functionality.
pcwalton on HN
Emulation accuracy is hard to judge and the NES does not need much processing power
From 2 comments
This is cool and all, but... Since when does an NES take "decent processing power" to emulate? I emulated NES games on a 386DX40 and SNES games on a 486DX266. Certainly the…
aidenn0 on HNConcise indeed, only around 2,000 lines for the whole thing. Though I'm not sure if it's possible to quantify the accuracy of the emulation.
kibwen on HN
Requests
Benchmark compiler optimization by turning off the frame limiter
From 1 comment
You're right, it's a silly statement. Because you don't need to run more than 60 frames per second, you won't start seeing performance degradation over native until you hit, say,…
pcwalton on HN
Questions
How to get started learning Rust
From 1 comment
How would you recommend I get started learning Rust? It looks really interesting, but I haven't found any reasonably good tutorials.
jmgrosen on HN
Rust 1.0 timeline
From 1 comment
Is there a timeline set for Rust 1.0?
saosebastiao on HN
Alternatives named
Go
From 1 comment
I'm also a Scala fan looking fowards to Rust. Have you tried Go? I really like it too.
dysoco on HN