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JavaScript Gameboy Color Emulator

Posted by Soulskill on from the taste-the-rainbow dept.

Prosthetic_Lips writes "A programmer named Grant Galitz has released a GameBoy Color emulator written in HTML5/JavaScript, and it will run ROM images stored locally. What's amazing is that it runs the games at a playable speed. We discussed a different, but similar project six months ago, but it seems like this one is pretty complete at this point. It's also open source."

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  1. Re:Why? by michelcolman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Jave/Javascript/Javawhatever are all object-oriented programming languages that are (supposed to be) platform-independent and as a result, due to various translation and other issues, run rather more slowly than native code. Yes, Java and Javacript are TOTALLY different, just like tigers and polar bears are TOTALLY different (if you disregard the fact that they're both large carnivores and therefore incredibly similar from an alien point of view). My point is that, if you were happy using non-native code, no "walls" have ever stopped you on the iPhone.