[Tutor] Would an emulator be possible in Python?

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Wed Sep 12 19:31:40 CEST 2007


Andy wrote:
> Ok, I'm pretty sure the answer is no but I'm hoping that someone will
> prove me wrong.  I have decided that I would like to try and write an
> emulator, I'm going to start out with a couple of simpler systems like
> the Chip 8 and maybe a well documented arcade game but I would like to
> do an NES emulator eventually.  Is Python anywhere near fast enough to
> do this and have it be playable?  I hope so because I really don't
> like C/C++.

GIYF...

Chip8 emulator, they claim it is *too* fast!
http://www.pygame.org/projects/20/190/

Apparently Java was fast enough in 2003:
http://www.peterbe.com/plog/blogitem-20031211-1300

Kent


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