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That's not an emulator. It's just a GUI front-end for other emulators.

Nothing Japanese, but there were western games before that had major influence on DQ and FF, most notably Ultima and Wizardry.

He was asking why emulate an 8080 on a 6809 to run CP/M on it when you can just use a Z80 and not bother with emulation.

You can do that with a Raspberry Pi.

I think Cortex A7 is faster than A8. Or at least more modern.

The ones I know of are proprietary and used on AAA console games.

I think you got that backwards. Parent was talking about porting from PC to consoles.

This is about concurrency, not parallelism.

> We do have thousands of GPU cores Those are more like ALUs, and very simple ones at that, than cores.

It has poor performance on consoles.

I wouldn't recommend that one. It teaches the old deprecated fixed function OpenGL.

There are still uses for software 3d rendering. Some modern game engines for example use it for lighting or culling purposes.

iOS doesn't support Vulkan.

He allocates memory with new/delete and passes arguments with references among other things.

I think you mean C++.

I prefer the original. It's more consistent and I don't think realistic graphics are a good fit for something like Civ.

Only the first two RPi models (A and B) have 26 pins. The later ones (A+, B+, 2B, Zero, 3B) have 40 pins.

Aren't you confusing QBasic with some older BASICs? QBasic is a structured language. It has blocks, functions, different kinds of loops, custom types... It doesn't require gotos or line numb…

No.

VC4 is used in all the Raspberry Pi boards, not just the RPi 2.

Which i5 would that be?

Edison has both Atom and Quark cores.

Yes. Only the most expensive Intel chips with eDRAM outperform AMD's integrated graphics.

I think most popular assemblers use dst,src not just Intel. I know z80, 68k, PPC and ARM do at least.

I guess you'd feel that way if you came from a PC background. For console developers, Sony's SDK for the PS1 at the time was pretty good compared to the alternatives.

Are you sure that's not an april fools hoax?

I don't think 1.4.2.3 was the last version before this one. The one in the Ubuntu Wily repositories for example is 1.5.23

Are you sure it was by SNK (Neo-Geo) and not Capcom? Capcom had a bunch of games out at that time that fit your description (The King of Dragons and a couple of licensed D&D games come to mind).

Code on consoles of that era is typically executed directly from ROM, so you'd have to first copy it to RAM, which was rather limited (only 2 KB I believe on the NES).

It also has no audio/video output, no ethernet and no SD card.