- colinlm 47 days agoYes, it was very painful at first. The things that offset the pain is that at the start, the code was strictly the same (C code) for x86-64 and 6502, so I could iterate bugs out with the x86-64 decoder before trying with the 6502 code, in a few milliseconds. Afterwards, once I started going assembly on the 6502 code I iterated over that using MAME's Apple IIgs with 16MHz ZipChip, making the wait ~5 minutes instead of 70 at start, and less and less as I progressed.
- bmonkey325 47 days agoWhat an amazing time to be alive where MAME is a development environment.
No chance this ran correct the first time. How many times it ran before it was like oh crap. Try again. That’s some serious dedication.