Tiny Emulators
naves
199 points
12 comments
July 12, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)
infinite_spin
just want to mention that some of these have the volume turned up a bit higher than I expected, which you don't notice until you click on the game
Lerc
I love the pin level emulation model of this. The self contained modular behaviour of components has real flexibility. For a long time I have wondered if extremely thin but explicitly defined interfaces are an under-explored domain for interoperability. Beyond simple chip emulation, any set of values that are sampled on each side of the interface at defined times, and a small set of signals to provided temporal access. Be it pins, a small set of registers, or a memory mapped region, it seems like an excellent target for conformance testing. Perhaps in a world of AI generated code, modular components with explicit conformance requirements would allow people to not care what happens inside the black box, provided it cannot be made to violate it's behaviour requirements.
gabrielsroka
It's at least 8 years old https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Tiny%20Emulators&type=story&da...
MomsAVoxell
Needs more Oric: https://oric.games/
keyle
Extremely cool. Loading up these games in a split seconds used to take eons as a kid with the tapes. Bruce Lee on ZX spectrum was my jam!
ChrisArchitect
Please update the url to https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/ (as is linked officially and in previous submissions, noted last year by the dev even https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821756 ) where'd you get this preview one from OP? linked somewhere?