• PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Just a little article about a odd (but fun) emulation project. Supratim Sanyal has got 18 Nintendo Game & Watch games, including Donkey Kong and Oil Panic, running on a ZX Spectrum 48K.

    The Spectrum emulates the chip inside the handhelds, so it’s running the original game code while drawing those familiar LCD segments on a TV. My favorite bit of it is that Sanyal also made a new Game & Watch-style maze game called Munchy, which you can try without supplying any Nintendo ROMs (well, if you have the admittedly niche hardware that is)

        • SkaraBrae@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Apologies. Fixed.

          My first computer was a donated ZX Spectrum with 1k memory. I had no tape drive, so I would program in a game, copied from a magazine, and play it, and when I switched it off it was gone.

          When we visited my dad he had a 16k that he had upgraded to 48k. I remember playing Jet Set Willy and Elite.

  • goatinspace@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    It’s nice to see articles like that instead of constant “rage bait” news. Probably not many people know what Spectrum is though.

    • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Thanks!

      These kind of oddball gaming stories are what keep me sane to write, so this is a lovely comment to read :)