Tiny Emulators

naves 199 points 12 comments July 12, 2026
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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?

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