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HN comment orderI recently wrote a "remix" of visual6502 (just for fun), with C (and a bit of C++), compiled to WASM to see whether the rendering performance of the chip visualization can be improved while still running in browsers, and also to improve the "UX" a bit: https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/ Check Help -> About for a list of dependencies used in that project (lots of good stuff in there), the two most important being the original data sets from visual6502, and a C…
At the transistor level? I assume this means that each transistor is simulated digitally, as a pure switch, and not as an analog component, which I imagine would be near impossible to do in Javascript on current hardware. Not the most practical way to emulate a CPU, but surely a good exercise in learning how a processor works from the component level on up.
This is still cool, but has anything updated lately? I don't see anything newer than the Atari 2600 simulation, but I also can't get the "Recent Changes" page on the wiki to show anything, so I might be missing something.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 382
- Total comments
- 63
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-09-17 | 6502 simulated at transistor level in JavascriptFirst breakout | pnp | 123 | 28 |
| 2010-09-20 | Visual 6502 in JavaScript | dfox | 5 | 0 |
| 2011-01-07 | The Visual 6502 in JavaScript | elasticdog | 1 | 0 |
| 2012-03-06 | Visual simulation of the MOS 6502 | kghose | 6 | 0 |
| 2012-12-28 | The Visual 6502 JavaScript Simulator | tdrnd | 3 | 0 |
| 2014-05-12 | The Visual 6502 | kumarski | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-09-08 | The Visual 6502 | sebkomianos | 87 | 15 |
| 2016-06-28 | Interactive visual JavaScript simulation of the 6502 CPU, used in the Apple II | bokenator | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-02-10 | Visual 6502 in JavaScriptBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | kijduse | 155 | 20 |
