emulation – Page 5

Count on old-school fun with these new calculator emulations

January 30, 2023 wp-bot Ars Technica

Enlarge / Graphing a parabola on the TI-83 Plus calculator emulation. (credit: Texas Instruments, MAME Tea/mInternet Archive) Due to its price, size, and capabilities, I

GoldenEye can’t distract from Switch retro games’ most annoying pitfall

January 27, 2023 wp-bot Ars Technica

Enlarge / Nintendo’s promotional key art for the launch of GoldenEye 007 on Switch. (credit: Nintendo) Today marks the long-awaited rerelease of the Nintendo 64

SNES Star Fox now runs at a silky 60 fps thanks to a new hack

September 23, 2022 wp-bot Ars Technica

A demonstration of the hacked, 60 fps version of Star Fox released this week (though this demo doesn’t get much above 30 fps, as noted

Building a retro-gaming super-console with $100 and a Raspberry Pi: 2022 edition

February 9, 2022 wp-bot Ars Technica

Enlarge / Raspberry Pi cases like the Argon One won’t look out of place underneath your TV or next to your gaming PC. (credit: Andrew

Why modern consoles can’t just “run any… older executable”

November 18, 2021 wp-bot Ars Technica

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Historically, when major game companies have talked about emulation, they’ve pigeonholed the technology primarily as a way for

How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection

June 28, 2021 wp-bot Ars Technica

Enlarge / We’re so close to having an emulator that can perfectly recreate every single function of real SNES hardware and software. (credit: Aurich Lawson)